“wisdom” we would have made it much more confusing‚ complex‚ and inequitable. Earn your way to heaven. We would have devised a “lay-away” salvation plan. But God designed a salvation free for all‚ available to all‚ by sending His Son to die for our sins. In the death of Christ‚ God displayed His own sheer genius in masterminding a plan of salvation whereby He remained both just and the justifier. God designed His plan of salvation in such a way that sinful man could not come to
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Salvation In Langston Hughes’ autobiography‚ “Salvation‚” he shares his childhood experience of his Auntie Reed’s Christian church. Going into the revival‚ Hughes’ expectantly waited for Jesus to come save him; “to see Jesus.” What was supposed to be a religiously enlightening moment of his life transpired to be a disheartening realization that Jesus’s existence could have very well resulted from mass hysteria. He revolves his experience around the confusion resulted from miscommunication between
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Jose Vittorio D. Abriol TREDTRI V24 "Discovering God" To everyone‚ God is a question of concern. There are people who are very religious and cherish Him‚ and there are people who don’t believe in Him. Some people know God only as a character in a Bible. Many people around the world talk about feeling the presence of God. Many say "God is on my side." As a member of a Catholic family‚ I believe that there is really a God. He may be intangible but I can assure that there is His presence. I
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life in India is – or should be – free‚ there is constant pressure to conform to other ways of life; the poet uses the way we should or should not treat books as an example or symbol of this. The gods roam freely‚ but because trees are sacred it is a sin to ill-treat a book in any way‚ in order not to disturb or offend Sarasvati or the tree from which the paper comes. The second part of the poem returns to the idea of a foreign language; all languages‚ it says‚ have once been the language of an invader
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The beatitudes‚ or the commandments of blessedness‚ given us by the Saviour‚ do not in anyway annul the commandments of the Law. On the contrary‚ these commandments complement each other. The Ten Commandments of the Law are restricted to prohibiting those acts which would be sinful. The Beatitudes explain to us how we may attain Christian perfection or grace. The Ten Commandments were given in Old Testament times to restrain wild‚ primitive people from evil. The Beatitudes are given to Christians
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A theme that stood in the way of Mr. Hooper overcoming his committed sin is his guilty conscience. Mr. Hooper was guilty‚ which forced him to wear a black veil that made him feel as if his sin was non-existing. The gossip through the towns people weighs on Mr. Hooper’s conscious. The townspeople are feeling guilty due to the fact they have sins of their too that they should try to heal from. There are viewers who have dug deeper in the guilt factor that Hawthorne uses as a theme which is portrayed
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Crime‚ punishment and redemption The idea of people making wrong actions and having to pay for them afterwards is not new. The Christian religion centers itself around the confession of sins done by men or women. Luckily‚ they have the power to repent and do penance to receive God’s forgiveness. God sends people this power and people around the world mimic this cycle of crime‚ punishment‚ repentance‚ and reconciliation in court systems and other penal codes. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps
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Introduction I. Attention-Getter: I am sure that most of you have heard of the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Although it was delivered by Jonathan Edwards in 1741‚ it is considered the most famous religious speech in all of history. II. Establish Credibility: I become familiar with this speech in my 10th grade American Literature class‚ but my interpretation is very different when I study this speech from a theological perspective. III. Thesis/Preview Statement: I will
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Guilt and forgiveness from a Christian and Psychological perspective From a Christian perspective‚ guilt is the feeling that we get when we know we have failed in obeying the commandments of God‚ or that we have acted in ways contrary to what we believe is right. The Baker’s Theological Dictionary of the Bible (2000) emphasizes a positive aspect of guilt‚ according to the author‚ guilt can be beneficial in the following manners: “A deep feeling of guilt‚ even if caused by oppressive parenting‚
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wondering why they were created the way they were. For example‚ a sin in the Eighth Circle of Hell‚ bribe‚ would be considered worse than a sin in the Sixth Circle of Hell‚ murder. To understand this‚ one must realize that Dante followed very strict Christian values during the time that this book was written. Throughout his decent it is clearly indicated by the way each sin is described in the circles. While descending the sins only get worse according to what the beliefs if god were back then.
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