ENG4U-B Unit 2 Lesson 9 Jeffery Dass What is the ultimate cure to help end countless acts of violence that becomes ongoing in an evil world[pic] Mercy. Mercy is the most crucial aspect to humanity; mercy is what drives peace, respect, and gives opportunity towards sanity. Firstly, the mercy King Lear expresses to Cordelia shows how mercy can restore relationships. Secondly, insufficient mercy leads to destructive relationships which cause others to drive into insanity. Lastly, Edgar’s crucial act of mercy led to his father Gloucester reaching an epiphany, that he was wrong by trusting Edmund.
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.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Sermon by: Jonathan Edwards Rhetorical Device Recognition Project Tone Used: Hostile Words that describe tone: * Damned * Wrath * Rage * Abominable * Wicked 2 Examples of: * Antithesis -“To see so many rejoicing and singing for joy of heart, while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit!” -“There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery.” * Metaphor- -“The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string...” -“You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.” * Extended Metaphor- -“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: His wrath toward you burns like fire; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire; 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 is in ours. You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but His hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God’s hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking His pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending His solemn worship.
“It is pride, not covetousness, which is the Pardoner’s greatest sin.” How far do you agree? Pride has been traditionally considered the chief of sins due to it incorporating all aspects of the others as it involves false beliefs in a person’s own importance, is the sin through which Lucifer fell and became Satan and is the was the downfall of Adam and Eve due to them believing they could be gods themselves. In The Pardoner’s Tale the Pardoner is presented as ‘a ful vicious man’ implying that he has no morals and is engulfed by the sins that he preaches. Using the word ‘vicious’ is intriguing because of the sibilance and the snake-like onomatopoeic nature to the word. It represents him as almost inhuman as he has more serpent-like qualities.
2 Timothy 1:7 For the Spirit God does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. God says that Satan only comes to "steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10:10). And that is what the spirit of fear is sent out to do. Verses Fear of The Lord. Ps 111:10 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and they who live by it grow in understanding... Prov 16:6 says that fear of the Lord makes men turn from evil.
To achieve his end of making his congregants aware of their dangerous positions on earth, in which he states “as they could be cast into hell at any time” he reminded them of the power of God and his capacity for doing away with sinners. Edwards believed that if they were acted like Christians they could be exchanged, human beings were still pitiful creatures, always at the mercy of God. He compares the relationship between men and God by reminding his listeners how it is, “easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth” (Edwards 300) and how it is much the same for God when he views people. By comparing human beings with worms in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards wants his followers to understand that God’s mercy and trying to inspire to be
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.
; they result from the choices of free will. Natural evils are those evils that occur as the result of natural processes: earthquakes, forest fires, tsunamis, etc. The problem of natural evil is that the problem of explaining why God allows this kind of evil to occur. People always blame god when something bad happens but never when something good. Now in this world there is a balance of everything that is how order is kept in this world therefore for every good thing that happens there will be something bad following.
The Bishop is convinced that the soldiers fighting the war are combating evil in the name of God. He says, “'In a just cause:/ they lead the last attack/ 'On Anti-Christ” (Sassoon 3-4: 1182). Clearly, the Bishop thinks that violence is warranted against the “Anti-Christ”. It is interesting to note that it is a bit ironic that a religious man is endorsing violence while, as a Bishop, he most likely preaches to “Love thy neighbor as thou God”. This portrays the Bishop as being ignorant, imprudent, and close-minded which ultimately reflects