Frodo, the Ring Bearer, is Christ the Sin Bearer. He carries the burden of the Ring as Christ carried the burden of sin. He too is a living sacrifice. Frodo's wound on Weathertop is a figurative of Christ's spear wound on the Cross. Note that the wound on Weathertop is inflicted by the Witch-king, another Satan figure.
What metaphor is used for Hell in the italicized passage? Simile: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as. For example: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present." What similes are used in the italicized passage? Allusion: An allusion is a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture.
Sixth circle (X): The Heretics. Are placed into opened tombs. 1) The Structure of hell (still in the sixth circle) is the physical and moral division of hell. Three categories: Incontinence, violence, fraud. C. Seventh circle (XII) – (first ring) Violent against others.
“If it were not for God's restraints, there are, in the souls of wicked men, hellish principles reigning which, presently, would kindle and flame out into hellfire (Edwards 1).” "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present. If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would (Edwards 2).” Early in the year 1692, in the small Massachusetts village of Salem, a collection of girls fell ill, falling victim to hallucinations and seizures. In extremely religious Puritan New England, frightening or surprising occurrences were often attributed to the devil. The unfathomable sickness spurred fears of witchcraft, and it was not long before the girls, and then many other residents of Salem, began to accuse other villagers of consorting with devils and casting
In the novel Lord of the Flies, water was used to symbolize isolation, life and purification. Water relates to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Fire symbolized hope, life and the downfall of democracy. The Biblical story fire alluded to was that of Moses and the burning bush. There is bound to be at least one archetypal allusion in all great literature.
Running Header: tHE LINEAGE OF SIN AND DEATH The Lineage of Sin and Death Candise M. Morgan BIB 113: Old Testament History Grand Canyon University Professor Randall Weisberg November 8, 2009 The Lineage of Sin and Death The world is surrounded by evil and sin. Sin has spread into the world since the earliest era of mankind’s history and can be accounted for in Genesis 3-11. Sin is defined by dictionary.com as “any act regarded as such a transgression, esp. a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle” (2009). In the book of Genesis the accounts of sin originated in the relationship between man and God.
The image of the serpent is linked to Satan and the dragon in Revelation 12:9 9And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. (Bible.com) The serpent as the devil is clearest when Satan appears before Christ tempting him, with things of the world if Christ will worship Satan. This example encompasses all the previous depictions of the serpent as evil and personifies that evil as Satan. Each piece of the theme of the serpent as evil over laps to a degree; temptation, forbidden knowledge, sin, false idols, and the devil, each of these visit and revisit the serpent as evil. This repetition cements the serpent as evil from a Christian perspective.
He explained that Dante’s Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s poem from the fourteenth-century called Divine Comedy. It is about the journey of Dante through hell, or the medieval version of hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering located within the earth. Through symbolism, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno (Italian for Hell) describing the recognition and the rejection of sin. Overall I thought that whole presentation was extremely boring and hard to follow.
Although in Christianity, the dragon represents Satan the devil and sin. These feelings are expressed in Revelation 20:2 where it states, “He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” As shown from the text, the Bible is comparing the fire-breathing monster to Satan the devil, who is the cause and ruler of all sin, thus having the dragon be associated with all that is sin. The pagan tale then combines the two different beliefs and morphs them into one, thus allowing its non-Christian readers to be able to fully understand its hidden Christian principles of what is sin. Another example of a Christian element would be when Beowulf is dying and gives thanks, some of his last few words being “To the everlasting Lord of All, to the King of Glory, I give thanks that I behold this treasure here in front of me, that I have been allowed to leave my people so well endowed on the day I die.”. By thanking God for all of the victories and the treasures that he earned all throughout his life, it demonstrates how he is not taking full glory for all that he has obtained.
Edwards negated the fact that salvation could be attained through good works, emphasizing that the only way to salvation was depending on God’s grace. In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” he vividly describes the tortures of hell. While describing hell, he said, “It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell”(handout). Edwards had a very strict preaching style, but it was his vivid imagery of hell that inspired many people to work their hardest to reach salvation. Several years after Edwards began preaching, George Whitefield started a different style of evangelical preaching.