(112) How is it that he can make a reference to one little piece of the Bible and not take a look at the rest? Over and over again in The Holy Bible it mentions forgiveness and mercy. If this is true, then how is it that the wrath of God is right above us, ready to strike without giving us another chance? The Almighty God is there to help and comfort us when we do wrong, not to condemn us the very second we mess up and never offer another opportunity to fix everything we possibly can. Edwards’ mind was so clouded with trying to scare these people witless, that he just contradicted himself.
What does Edwards mean when he says, “King Saul is in all of us?” All of us have a part that can hinder us from truly serving God. Saul’s fear and pride get in the way of the Lord’s will. We have the fear of losing what we have, so we try to hold on to what we do have. We have pride that hinders us from giving the glory to God. We forget that it is God that gives us the things and leadership that we have here on earth.
I don’t consider your / Pronouncements so important that they can / Just…overrule the unwritten laws of heaven. / You are a man, remember” (Sophocles 12). This seen illustrates, that Creon does think he is god, and has no respect for the real gods. Antigone in so many words is explaining to him that he is wrong, and a person should not be denied burial rights for any reason. Creon does not like her explanation, and explains that “I don’t care if she is my sister’s daughter.
Oscar Cruz Jr. Cruz 1 BG Guttierez ENGL 2327 23 February, 2012 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God In the story Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in holds a sermon on how your life should be led to with several techniques he tries to grab your attention with his grace and how you would go to heaven. Not everybody believes in god but in my point of view I believe that with the will of the lord everything is possible. Jonathan Edwards throughout the readings tried to scare the readers on how god can do things to people or grasp their life in any part of their time. It shouldn’t be understood in that way because in the bible I reads that god will come for you at the time he is ready. There is no need to be scared to go to heaven because heaven is a better and more peaceful place.
Ahab sees himself equal with God and he rejects God for an alliance with the devil. Ahab does not believe himself to be powerful but he aligns himself with the devil during his quest. Ahab believes that the ship can carry him further into regions that God does not reign over. Ahab’s quest for Moby Dick is an act of defiance towards God. Mr. Hooper, the minister in The Black Veil is a man of secret sin and darkness.
He explains that we will always be living on edge because we cannot predict what our future holds. He compares the difference in being a Theist verse Atheist; also he wants us to be honest with ourselves and stop practicing ritual that we don’t believe in but gravitate to when situations arise that we cannot find the answers to. He challenges us to come up with some realistic ceremonies that would “strengthen ourselves in our most testing and tragic times”. The author believes that your spirit and your soul do not live on after you die since they depend on each other to function. The human race will eventually no longer exist just like all others creations here on earth.
He’s letting the congregation know that once you’re over hell you can’t find a way to save yourself from going in. Last example is also located in paragraph three, Edwards says to the congregation, “There is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up” (Edwards 3). He’s telling them that God is the one who decides if you go to hell or not. Jonathan Edwards uses anaphora for an affect. He’s trying to let them know that hell is a real place and they can end up there if they keep sinning so they need to be aware of what they’re doing.
Those against it, believe life is given by God, and he decides when to end it. All Christian Variants are opposed to Euthanasia, as they believe the direct and voluntary killing of human life is wrong. They believe Euthanasia violates the fact that humans are created in Gods image (imagio dei) and only God is able to end someones life. No Christian has the right to terminate life, "for everything there is a reason....a time to be born, and a time to die"(Ecclesiastes
From in a cell, he jots down almost rebel like ideas, which is to be free from having a religion forced upon any single being. In this initial strategy of steering the emotions of the readers, Pane tells the readers “I believe in one God, and no more” (100), he exposes his stance but does not overly enforce his beliefs so the readers will not be subjected to them. I think that this is very important because if Pane did over insert his views then he would be going against his own teachings. Pane then goes on to talk about a few religions, discussing the problems he finds with them. I found this to be his main strategy of grabbing the reader’s attention and expressing his purpose to them.
The author concludes that the person who has no faith in religion could watch religious debates go on and never be affected, either positively or negatively. The other conclusion is that a person who has even the smallest amount of faith in a religion should dive head first into that religion because of the promise of infinite reward. All other religions should be denounced because they are in conflict with his chosen religion. The author did not sufficiently support the premise of disbelief in faith and or religion. He states that if one does not believe in a religion then one can gain nothing from religious debates.