Venial sin

Sin and Redemption Sin is defined as a, “Transgression of divine law; especially a willful violation of religious or moral principle.’’(Dictionary.com) We are all sinners. Sin has been present from the beginning of time and will always exist. Although an individual may try hard not to commit sin, human faults and weaknesses will eventually lead all to sin at one time or another. Each generation has had different views on how sin should be recognized and punished. On might ask, is it right that…

Biblical Poetic Readers: Learning How To Know God Can you live in the world, partake of the ways of the world, and yet please God? Psalm 1 is written by an anonymous psalmist, however, the reader can see the psalmist knows God, as well as understands that life without him is bleak. The Wisdom of the psalmist has shined through this Psalm to create this illustration of a wonderful wisdom psalm, perhaps through personal experience or sometime in his life, God revealed to him the importance of the…

Buddhism have different change of mind. In other words, one way in which the biblical definition of repentance is different to the Buddhism is that God can give us salvation of our sin. The definition of repentance in Buddhism means one should have committed own wrong action and responsible…

1. The sin Hester Prynne commits is adultery, one of the gravest sins a person could commit in the 17th century puritan society of New England. Hester’s immediate punishment is that she has to wear the scarlet letter, and face the social ridicule that comes with it. Hester will never be able to blend in with the society around her, and instead be required to bear the consequences of her sin at all times. Hester, being cut off from mainstream society moves in to a small cottage outside of…

The Dilemma with Measuring Sin This assignment covers a summary of three thoughts with two centered on reaching the lost with a message of Jesus Christ and another focused on the conversion experience from the works of three different authors. My effort in discovering a common theme to discuss was somewhat lost because of the direction in which each author approached sharing their information. However, in effort to complete a single cohesive flow I will discuss each situation independently and…

In Crime and Punishment, the murderer is really a saint, and the prostitute is really an angel, and the husband is really a specter, and the punishment for confessing a crime is actually liberating, and the perfect beauty is within the accepting of one’s own loving, social nature. But the unattainable is living a self-oriented existence that rejects both human companionship and the loving qualities of one’s human nature. Although the narrator at first appears to depict Raskolnikov as the…

“That I believe is what true redemption is, when guilt leads to good.” Redemption is often seen as freeing one’s self from error or sin but in Khalid Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, it proves that true redemption is when good is brought out through guilt by helping both yourself as well as other’s. Amir has a past of “unatoned sins” and although he destroys the lives of many, he has several opportunities to redeem himself of his guilt; he works to not be the selfish little boy he once was.…

6. Exegetical Analysis of the Text Hosea 6:1 “Come, let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn, but he will heal us; he struck, but he will bind us.” Both verbs לְכוּ (הָלַךְ) “come” and נָשׁוּבָה (שׁוּב) “return” have full force in and their repetition (Hosea 5:15; 6:1) puts Yahweh’s action and the people’s action in counterpoise. The omission of the conjunction brings יַךְ (נָכָה) “smite” into tandem with טָרָף (טָרַף) “tear.” The two verbs וְיִרְפָּאֵנוּ (רָפָא) “heal” and וְיַחְבְּשֵֽׁנוּ…

Hill, T.D. Neophilologus (1993) 77: 297. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01000141 In this article it talks about how “The Dream of the Rood” is a poem representing an Anglo-Saxon Paganistic interpretation of Christ as he died on the cross for our immoralities. Plentiful is seen in the achievement of Christ’s victory, the encounter of good over evil, and the worth of the oak tree and cross. According to the text, the cross and the tree take on a massive quantity of emotions throughout the complete…

In this chapter, Zophar continues talking to Job. Zophar asks Job, “Do you not know…that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?” (Job 20:4). I imagine Zophar is using this as a direct attack on Job’s life. To Zophar, he believes that one’s works will determine their place in life. Since Zophar does not believe that Job was genuinely doing the will of the Lord, I imagine he wanted to tell Job that his worldly success was built on the foundation of evil…