Total depravity

16th century theologian, John Calvin. He believed that both scripture and nature were ways God reveals himself to us and based his revolutionary ideas off both. Calvin’s main views of Christian ideals to be in this world but not of it consist of total depravity, divine calling, and moderation but is progressed through humanist education…

Himself, the result of one 's sin would be death and eternal separation from Him. This doom can be cast off fully and eternally by repenting of one 's sin and relying on God for salvation from unrighteousness and its consequences. Once saved, the total righteousness of God 's holy Son, Jesus Christ is placed to a person 's account. God gives that saved person the ability to do good. Only once a person is saved is there a fight to do good instead of evil. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and…

In just over one hundred pages of sparse and fragmented description, Elie Wiesel’s Night conveys the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust while putting on display the loss of humanity that he was forced to bear witness to in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. Not only is Elie forced to watch the degradation of basic moral values and characteristics of his fellow man, but he is also left to question the morality of his own God. Even more horrifying, Elie is subjected to…

One common way to interpret Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is as a God figure. After all, Prospero reigns over the island and controls several characters. Most convincingly for this reading, he acts as the sole judge of the shipwrecked brethren he has not seen in twelve years. On the surface the reading is sound, but what might Shakespeare’s theologian contemporaries think about it, specifically the Protestant Reformers? On the Freedom of a Christian by…

degradation of army life and the horrors of battle caused by the Mexican War. Garrison’s The Liberator “denounced the war as one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine-marked by ruffians, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity ..."” The…

The Judge oh no set me freeeee Have you heard of Judge Dredd? Have you heard of Judge Gesell? Unlike Judge Dredd, in bloody Batman Comics and an R rated movie, Judge Gesell was just a Judge doing what is right and making a living. Have you ever admitted to a crime or a sin? Chuck Colson admitted to slander but not because he felt guilty, not because God was working in his heart, but for a selfish reason, in hopes that the prosecution would drop charges and that he would not have to spend much…

another, the collective contains a complete lack of individuality at the hands of total uniformity of moral horror. “He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in His sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent in ours.” The forceful language he utilizes here and all throughout the sermon juxtaposes the extremes of God’s heavenly purity and our hellbent depravity as sinners, a word apparently synonymous with human being. But for every of…

The dysfunction amongst the parties, the lack in voting as free society causes a disruption in a representative Government. What people expect is a fully functional Institution; instead they are given a corrupt corporation; and the lobbyist were total to an America in the control of our…

LOTF is a metaphor for the horrors that Golding witnessed during his service in WWII(this is undoubtedly the most popular theory due to the total lack of girls); a declaration of nihilism; a metaphor for the garden of eden; or that it shows the true capacity for evil that lurks within the souls of men, and the rotting pig head represents our moral depravity. I, on the other hand believe the theory that all of the character are allegories (or symbols). Ralph and Piggy together are civilization,…

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