Parable

“I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the short parable, “The Minister’s Black Veil” as a reflection on the Puritan’s beliefs around him. The story follows Reverend Hooper, who decides to wear a black veil that covers his face. He indulges judgements, loneliness, and even the loss of his fiancé. He wears his veil till death barely answering questions about why he wore it. Hawthorne’s elaborate use of allegory and diction portrayed his views on the…

common in both Christian and Islamic beliefs, in the Japanese drama Atsumori. A central dogma of Christianity, besides belief in God and Christ, is forgiveness. As Christ died to forgive the sins of mankind, men should forgive one another. The parables Jesus shares exemplify this need to pardon sin. In one story, a wealthy man welcomes home his wayward son, even after the young man wasted all his inheritance away. The man could have casted out his son, but instead chose to feed and cloth him…

role of virtue and vice as the audition for eternity. Death, in this picture, marks the threshold which unmasks human life, laying bare who is truly rich and who is truly poor (47). Additionally, Chrysostom argues that the rich man’s mistake in the parable is thinking measuring the value of virtue in the gains in can attain for this world. By this criteria, which is demonstrated in the virtuous poor, virtue attracts no appeal. His mistake, of course, is his inability to attach virtue to a…

going to a party. My teacher once told me that I should serve others because not for self-righteous, but serving other is the right thing to do and while I serve, I should truly treat them with love. This idea continued to enforce on me when I read a parable from the bible, The “Second mile” and the “Good Samaritan”. These two stories have one common goal, to serve anyone unconditionally with kindness and full of generosity and hope.…

dissected the gospel of Matthew, that alone gave me so much understanding of the life of Jesus, his teachings, and mission in life. The bible has so much more meaning to me since I first started this class. Now, I have more knowledge of why certain parables are included in the bible as well as the gospels of Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John. These four gospels are the only stories that tell the life of Jesus, something I never knew. It’s amazing how God works, before this class,I…

Imagine the parable of the lion and the lamb. As the story goes, the strong and the meek will shall one day live in a peaceful and harmonious world. Although that is generally taken to pertain to the Jewish return to the Promised Land and the coming of the Messiah, it…

strengthened and he is all the more prepared for Jesus’ second coming on Judgment Day. God used two methods in the Bible to encourage believers to strengthen their relationship of faith with him: by instruction and by example. Often times, Jesus would use parables to illustrate what he wanted to tell people. The next section of this paper is going to illustrate portions of the Gospel of Luke that instruct believers to pray in this…

On March 13th, the church minister from Bethel Community Church(P) joined Billings united worship night. This is a night where members come together with others from all different churches, generations and denominations to sing praises to God together. This night of worship is held twice a year. The minister was invited by her laOn March 13th, Burlington Agape Community Church (P) offered Sunday Service with a sermon titled "I am the vine; you are the branches" from John 14:16-15:15. Jesus the…

The Symbolic Heroic Nature of Jesus The gross profit and best-selling movie in the year 1988, the Last Temptation of Christ, brought a lot of controversial talk from far and near. Both people that had seen the movie and those that had not had something unique to say about the movie. The movie directed by Martin Scorsese deflected the 1953 novel authored by Nikos Kazantzakis in which Jesus was portrayed as a tormented and fearful man who was defeated by lust and unsure of his path in life. Many…

When I first arrived to the class I was taught the Pentecostal view on Christianity. I didn 't know much about other religions. I was glad to take this course, because I have learned a lot. I have gain wisdom and understanding from God. I learned that we must trust him at all times. This puts our faith in him and shows our love for God. The first thing I learned was the Holy Spirit prayer. The Holy Spirit prayer is a pray that we said in the beginning of each class. As a Pentecostal I was…