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    Even though people may hold onto the pain, forgiveness is possible through the love of Jesus. In reading the chapter Restored Innocence the author Elizondo explains in great detail how Jesus can make all the guilt, shame and past hurt of our life pave a way to start a new life of innocence through his forgiveness. In fact the chapter reveals how Jesus wants us to transform now from all this hurt rather than live with it until death. Additionally, Jesus wanted us to repent from the very…

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    Providing someone with the ability to make occasional mistakes without losing the relationship between the two people is what allows comfort and stability to exist in said relationship. Many people think that forgiveness is an action, but it is not. Forgiveness is an attitude or mindset. To truly forgive someone, or yourself, you don’t have to forget about what happened because then you couldn’t learn from it. Simply move on and drop all bad feelings for this person, maybe even try to understand…

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    member of the community, but eventually becomes described as the devil itself. Dimmesdale is the fellow perpetrator to Hester’s sin, but cannot repent due to his position in the Puritan society. In each of the cases, admission or denial of guilt and repentance lead to beneficial or harmful situations, respectively. Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the characters, Chillingworth, Prynne, and Dimmesdale as parallels to demonstrate how guilt…

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    Sinners In The Hand of an Angry god “Sinners In The Hand of an Angry” god by jonathan edwards is about how men should have faith in god and fear him. having faith in god is really important because if you dont you will have a miserable life. if you follow god 's path you will be saved from hell. In the story the author is saying that people who have sinned can be forgiven if they repent to god and if they don 't they will be punished in hell. when someone repents to god they will feel sincere…

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    .As I continue along this journey of life there are many things that have shaped my faith and allowed me to create my own Christian philosophy of storytelling. The three major points that have developed me into who I am are the background that has got me to where I am today, the most important things in my life that can help the world in ways, and the way people need to stay connected and be able to forgive others no matter what the situation might be. I hope that other people can start to…

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    Is it possible to forgive someone who has done you wrong in the past? Is forgiveness a way to make yourself feel better? I believe to forgive is a way to set yourself free, to admit that it does no good to hate. I think forgiveness is a characteristic of our humankind. I think that a lot of us are raised up to believe that if we don’t forgive, whatever it is troubling, angering, make our blood boil or shaming us, is going to last longer if we don’t forgive, whether it is ourselves or whether it…

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     William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies. 1601-1608 is the third period that belong to Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies and somber or bitter comedies. This is the peak period characterized by the highest development of his thought and expression. He is more concerned with the darker side of the human experience and its destructive passions. This period produces many great tragedies like Hamlet, Othello, All’s well that Ends well, and the most famous is Macbeth.…

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    If told that “There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2004 pg.2), how far would one go to redeem their past and start anew? Amir and P.T. Barnum have to answer this question and try to redeem their mistakes and hopefully save their future. Aristotle's Literary Theory will help prove that redemption can be hard and some may appear impossible, but with the right mindset and great support, anything is possible. To have needed redemption the characters must have had to fall from grace. In the…

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    Sin comes and goes in everyone life, through the big and little mistakes they make. No matter how much a person tries to avoid it, sin will come and go with the common mistakes people make. Although scary, and is never ‘good’ the importance of sinning is to learn from the mistake that they made. Also commonly known as a solution, it is important that after making a mistake or committing a sin to learn from it so history doesn't repeat. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sin…

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    Jasmin H. Aceveda Quotations BSIE-HE/ 4A “Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie Don’t hold a grudge. Being angry at someone hurts only you. Let go of your anger, not for the other person, but for yourself. Remember,forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. Forgiving means accepting that it happened. As a human being, we tend to look at others fault, not realizing that we are also imperfect. For example, everyone puts the…

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