a virgin‚ 0 Why are personal testimonies important in sharing the gospel‚ and If a person is a Christian‚ or does it matter how they live their lives? Yes‚ in order for Jesus to die for our sins He had to go through the birth canal so that He could be of temptation and human flesh and overcome it without sin. I think that personal testimonies are important in sharing the gospel because who better to show or tell you what God can do‚ than someone who has experienced it themselves. Yes they are. When
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regeneration first‚ faith‚ then repentance. The Arminian ordo salutis on the other hand places faith first‚ then repentance‚ then regeneration. The problem with the Arminian ordo here is that trusting in Christ’s work on the cross and turning away from sin cannot possibly come before man has been changed out of his sinful nature by God. The Arminians claim that something good (faith and the desire to repent) can come out of our sinful nature. In Romans 7:18-19 Paul states‚ "For I know that good itself
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(in text citation). The Scarlet Letter was written in the 1850’s and was based in this type of society. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ the two main characters commit a similar sin but experience a different outcome. Hester and Arthur commit a very similar and related sin. Hester Prynne commits a sin of adultery. She is a married woman whose husband is lost at sea and sleeps with another man. Prynne actually becomes pregnant and has a child named Pearl‚whose name holds great significance
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commonly referred to as one of the greatest examples of American short fiction. The parable‚ like many of Hawthorne’s stories‚ is centered on one symbol. In this case‚ the symbol is a black veil worn by Reverend Hooper in order to showcase ‘secret sin’. The veil itself leaves readers questioning whether Hooper successfully gets his message across. Hawthorne generates an abundance of positive and negative effects in his short story that establish whether a lifetime behind the symbolic black veil is
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In “Anthem‚” Ayn Rand emphasizes the diction of the novella‚ by using the negatively connotative words to achieve a tone of immorality. For example‚ when Equality is in a tunnel and writing‚ “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil....there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws”(Rand 17). Also‚ “Strange are the ways of evil. We are false in the faces of
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settings that show sin and its consequences result in shame and suffering. The scaffold shows how the punishment imposed on us by others may not be as destructive as the guilt we impose on ourselves. When Hester was standing on the scaffold she is not thinking about being punished. She is having flashbacks to earlier times and feeling guilty for what she had done. The scaffold is a platform used for redemption and a symbol of the harsh Puritan code. Hester’s punishment for her sin of adultery is to
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free will our first mother and father decided to sin and we as humans inherited the fallen natures of Adam and Eve. Romans 5:12 states “So then‚ just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin‚ and so death spread to all people because all sinned.” In Ps 51:5‚ David says‚ Look‚ I was guilty of sin from birth‚ a sinner the moment my mother conceived me. (NET) According to the bible from the time we were conceived we were in sin. Ephesians 2:3 also establishes this‚ saying that
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Jonathan Edwards‚ and The Minister’s Black Veil‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne both have pretty similar subjects. Both texts talk about preachers and sins‚ and how sinning is bad‚ and you can’t try to cover up your sins‚ it will just bring you down. The theme in both texts are pretty similar. One theme in The Minister’s Black Veil is that you can’t try to cover up your sins‚ it will just bring you down. In lines 39-40 of the text it says‚ “With this gloomy shade before him‚ good Mr. Hooper walked at a slow pace
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reflected upon. Throughout the song we see an irregular rhythm that changes between iambic and trochea pentametre and it is through this erratic metre the songwriter conveys the inner conflicts that she has experienced‚ such as being lost in sin. In contrast‚ the regular meter signifies the songwriters change of attitude and we now see peace of mind and an inner calmness. The bridge is an example of the before and after we see in the life of the songwriter. In the middle of the
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message that God died from our sins they we may be saved and dwell in the house of The Lord. What are some specific moral reasons people may reject the Christian gospel? Some specific moral reasons that people may reject the Christian gospel is a feeling of not being worthy of Gods grace and mercy. Morally they know that they have sinned and done things that ho against Gods tules and standards that he has set for us. By denying that there is a problem with the sin we commit‚ doesn’t make it go
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