Jesus Rodriguez English 4th block October 11, 2010 To Hell or To Veil After reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Jonathan Edwards's “Sinner’s in the hands of an Angry God” the differences are punishment, damnation, and who the sinners are, while the similarities are focused on their strong believe in God. Edwards’s` depiction of God frightens the congregation through his extensive talk about God, while Mr. Hooper’s service hardly ever mentions God, the fear of his parishioners draws them towards the black veil. Over all Mr. Hooper would be the best and more efficient preacher than Edwards because he does not uses hell as a final damnation for the sins that are committed by human beings. Instead he uses the black veil to show punishment and to repent from you sins.
His puritan worldview led him to believe that “God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell” (Edwards 175). He thought that one should live his life fearing the Lord, and fearing hell even more. Edwards tries to convince his listeners of life's uncertainty: death is always but a breath away, and for the wicked that meant that perdition was always but a breath away. This sermon was intended as a wake-up call for those in the audience who underplayed the greatness of God and overemphasized their own worthiness. In opposition to Edwards beliefs, through his work Thanatopsis, Bryant portrays an acceptance of death.
This passage shows Blanche’s opinion of Stanley’s barbarism through use of diction and allusion of God and Bible. Also, Mr. Williams focuses on the uses of repetition and simile in order to emphasize the theme extensively. Use of punctuation emphasizes an underlying theme of Blanche’s fear towards Stanley. The tone of Blanche sounds disgusted and scared of Stanley, with exclamation marks to highlight her intentions to degrade Stanley for all of her sentences. There are also dashes to emphasize her unstable status after the horrifying experience from the day before showing that she is scared.
2:20-21) 2 Cares about people “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” (John 13:34) “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.” (Philippians 2:3) “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [judicial payment] for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (1st John 4:10-11) “Nor
What seems incomprehensible to reason is why God, an almighty and good being, would let Satan freely oppress Job, an innocent man. Despite the loss of his livestock and children, Job still displayed confidence in God’s will even though his gracious creator had let him suffer for no apparent reason. Disappointed and beaten, Satan, requests God to let him test Job once more. To let Job suffer in the first place seems unrighteous, however, God allows him to be tested again, even though Job still remained faithful to God after losing his children and means of living. In his second trial, huge and painful sores spread over Job’s body, but he continues to be loyal to God, in spite of his own wife suggesting to curse God for his suffering.
Job 4: 7-21 is taken from Eliphaz’s speech to Job. After undergoing immense suffering for no apparent reason, Job curses his life and birth and seeks comfort from his friends. Although Job is a good and holy man, Eliphaz states that suffering is the result of sin. He is implying that Job’s suffering is a result of a sinful life, although we already know the true reason for his pains. In verse 7, “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished, or were the upright cut off?”, Eliphaz basically says that the good do not suffer.
God eventually talks to Job making it clear that his actions need no explanation. The book of Job brings up the ever-present question of why bad things happen to good people and answers that question by saying God is above justice. When Job’s friends — Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar — hear of his calamity, they come to visit him and begin to argue their “theology” to him. Their theology is that a man’s suffering is always the result of his personal sin. Further, the more one has sinned, the greater one will suffer.
Joshua Lopez Instructor Ron Bontrager Introduction to Ministry Study September 21, 2012 Bibliographic Essay Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit “Blasphemy” comes from the two Greek words “blapto” and “phemi”; “blapto” means “to hurt,” while “phemi” means “to speak against.” The full meaning of the term “blasphemy” means to speak irreverently, impiously; it primarily means defamation, or to speak evil. There is always the idea of “hurt” or “injury” in blasphemy; the speaker means to do harm or to speak evil of one. The term is broad enough to include blasphemy, or evil speaking against anything or any person. One man can blasphemy a theory or doctrine by speaking evil against it; one man can blasphemy another man by speaking words to hurt or injure him. In this study we are to consider blasphemy against the members of the Godhead and especially against the third member, of the Holy Spirit.
It says “For God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” This verse basically says the same thing as John chapter three. That we are all sinners and Christ came into the world to forgive our sins. Another example is second Corinthians chapter five. It says “God made Him who had no sin to be sin, or be a sin offering for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God.” Have you ever heard the Ten Commandments? If not, here they
God made us and loves us He does not want us (His children) to fear death. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice in which we do not have to fear anything. Jesus claimed to be God In the Bible, in John 10:30, it says, “I and the Father are one.” Jesus was talking to the Jews that had gathered around him to stone him and they mocked him so Jesus replied that he and God are one. Jesus also said to them that even if they did not believe he was the Son of God to believe his works so that they may understand that God is in him. (John 10:37-38) Jesus never tried to hide the fact that he is the Son of God nor did he ever do anything in secret, everything was there in plain sight for everyone to see and to believe.