Mortal sin

The films Open City and Winter Light display the intricacies of loyalty within personal and group relationships, both human and non-human. Open City tends to view loyalty as an honorable trait, while Winter Light takes a bleaker view, questioning loyalty’s very ability to exist. Not surprisingly, both films represent the prevailing attitudes of the times in which they were created. Open City, released in 1945, offers a view of Rome while it is being occupied by Germany at the end of World War…

Often in sermons, ministers persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such as the cast in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” where he preaches and tries to get sinners to give their lives to Christ. Edwards wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fears, pity, and vanity. Edwards had a positive impact on his Puritan audience because of his use of fearful tone, heart-felted imagery and thoughtful figurative language. Edwards had a positive impact on his…

punish crimes that juries and judges can not. Punishments likely mean torture, physical and mental. There are three Furies, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto. Each one presides over a certain offense. Tisiphone presides over sins caused over hatred and anger. Megaera presides over sins crated with envy, and Alecto deals with crimes from lust and ambition. There are a fair amount of names to assign them, depending on what plain you glean the name from. In heaven, they are known as Dirae, or the…

the likeness of God” (Maddox 177). As we remain obedient to Christ and practice the means of grace, we continue to grow in grace with the goal of “entire” sanctification or “Christian perfection.” Whereas justification releases us from the penalty of sin, God’s sanctifying grace saves us from the power of…

A man walks down the street depressed and burdened. He looks to his right and sees the church. He can’t bear the burden on his shoulders. He walks into the church and sits down with the priest to do a confessional. The priest says to him, “Tell me what burdens you, son.” The man replies, “I was with General Sherman on his march south. We did some terrible, evil things.” The priest replies, “You were just following orders.” “No,” says the man, “They weren’t just orders. We did things only the…

By rapturing all the elect who are old enough, then only the nonelect will be left exposed on earth for the final days, other than some children who are very young, who will never get a chance to sin on purpose, and those young elect children who will not get raptured, then they will later get holy after the earth ends. Matthew 13:41► "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks (the stumbling…

Meador.Session1.Journal Almost five years ago, I uncovered the unsavory uses of his computer. I was completely and utterly blindsided. The man, my husband, I thought I knew closing in on two decades would never do this—not to me, not to our family. There was the undeniable evidence staring back at me in picture after picture, video after video, message after message. I felt numb, yet simultaneously felt punched in the gut as it wrenched, pressure crushing my chest, and anguish in my mind as it…

Although Puritans and modern Americans both exhibit paranoia, they deal with their fears differently. Whether it is suicide bombers, disease breakouts, or simply going to Hell, both Puritans and Americans have reasons to be afraid. Jonathan Edwards preached to his congregation about the consequences of sinning and not pleasing God. Edwards ask the congregation to “consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that…

around how human nature ties in with sin. They took place in the seventeenth to nineteenth century, back when the puritan migration to New England took place. These three pieces of literature are largely based around the Puritan way of life and theological principle: that humanity is inherently evil, meaning human nature is inclined to commit wrongdoing. Sin is defined as an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God’s will. However, all the sins represent human…

When someone sins, they have to go through several consequences other than just the fact of living with what they have done. In the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, several characters sin and the consequences they have to suffer because of this are awful but deserving. You have to be able to accept your sin in order to get rid of some of the consequences such as shame and regret. Hester and Dimmesdale are two of the main characters who have sinned because they have…