Sin City

it is all worth to get into heaven.’ Her last words in the poem can even prove this statement, Bradstreet says “My hope and treasure lies above.” (line 54) Edwards gives the image of a God who will make every soul suffered if they had committed a sin they had not repented for. In his sermon Edwards states “The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and…

“demonic,” on page 92-93 Hawthorne writes, “... as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom… Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension. She knew that her deed had been evil.” Pearl is contrived from sin, she rests upon a sinful bosom, her being is a direct representation of Hester’s actions and her sin, yet the result of her sin is a beautiful child who grows to be an intelligent, wild, graceful…

Humanity is no stranger to horror. The world is an indifferent host to all manner of life-shattering atrocities that leave man, woman, and child alike kneeling in the smoking rubble of their own lives. The human psyche tries to account for and categorize this suffering, to break it down and study the deeper meaning behind it. And while each individual may reach their own conclusions to the ever-present question of why catastrophe has been visited upon them, there is one query that troubles even…

Have you ever wanted someone to believe in the same things as you so much that you told them every other view on the matter is wrong except yours? In an excerpt of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards does exactly that. In short, Edwards said that anyone that does not believe in the same thing as he believes in, will not be able to go to heaven. That it is the grace of God keeping them from suffering. Also that they will eventually go to hell if they are not practicing the…

After reading the novel The Lord of the Flies one might be startled by the raging violence in the book. In the beginning of the book the boys seemed somewhat civilized. They had had rules and boundaries to avoid chaos but towards the ending of the book everything changed. Power got to one of the character’s head and this resulted in violence. After reading this book one might think humans are bad after all. I believe humans are bad because they are discriminate towards those who are different…

Christian we should value everyone opinion regardless of their culture or belief. God created us all in His image (Genesis 1:27, ESV). So, the diversity of cultures for most are normal. It is what they know and what they were taught. However, because of sin most cultures are arrogant to the knowledge of truth which the culture of God. In my…

“Every man must come to terms with death,” (Paulson, 2007). Death can be defined in different ways. Some would define it as the end of life. Others would say that it is akin to being asleep for after death, we are unconscious and oblivious of the time that has passed. The bible tells us this in Ecclesiastes 12:7, “The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”(NIV). When death is near our soul, whether physically or spiritually, is separated and from…

One of the most important goals in a Christian’s life is eternal life. However, everybody all has original sin that separates them from God. In “Augsburg Confession of Faith”, a document of Lutheran, original sin is described as an original disease what brings “condemnation and also eternal death to those who are not reborn through baptism and the Holy Spirit” (Article II). Man was made perfect and flawless at the beginning, but Adam and Eva changed how mankind would be when they obeyed the…

criminal, but I changed from the past. I may have a bad past, but that does not mean those past events should dictate my current and future. We are in a society that accepts the canons and principles of Christianity. Jesus came to save us from sin, the sin that we committed. He came for the sinners. I believe when I met him, my life changed. I had to shed my shameful past behavior and embrace the elements of his teachings. I agree I messed with the cops and I liked it those times, but things…

stand out from their environment and imagine better alternatives, in relations to which both the natural world and humans society are lacking” (Ruether 115). This paper will explore the three various views of sin and explain how it has impacted society and the earth today. The first view of sin is called “Hebrew views of Evil” (Ruether 116). You can see that human history had fallen to evil power a couple of times that is biased to human nature and society. Throughout the Hebrew and the Talmud…