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.
“All right then,” Huck decides in chapter 31, “I’ll go to hell,” (250). With this decision, he realizes that helping his friend is more important than a traditional rule of the church. Likewise, Huck also reforms and fine-tunes his original moral code throughout the story. Generally his code for lying from the beginning is that it’s wrong and that he shouldn’t do it. But, throughout his adventures, he realizes that sometimes it’s alright to do it and sometimes not.
To preach forgiveness is to preach the “good news” and lead the lost into the glory of God. However, in these times many Evangelicals have turned to a more dark interpretation of the “good news”. There are vivid descriptions of hell that cause fear into many. There are many laws created by churches that use fear to control their followers. With this going on, it is no wonder why others believe that Evangelicals are motivated by hate.
the bible teaches us to forgive others as we would want God to forgive us. But we are also taught in one of the greatest commandments to love our neighbor as we would love ourselves. And what better way to show our love, by supporting them in harsh times and providind a body to lean on. Additionally, Christians should also acknowledge global poverty by action and activity- getting to our feet, going out and doing something to change the world. Certainly it is our duty to pray for the poor but there is so much more that we can do to help.
He separated himself from society out of anger towards humanity for something that had happened to his family. He also didn't trust God would punish the evil, and was trying to do it himself. He believed God was trying to punish him. While a person of faith would accept the suffering given to him, Captain Nemo was instead angry at God. Captain Nemo’s actions also lead you to believe that he sought revenge against society.
“There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” (pg 30) Parris tried to defend himself with such passionate and heartfelt comments but Proctor would have none of it. To him Parris was not in his society. Also, his relationship with Abigail Williams was a strained one, plagued with affair, scandal, and betrayal. He did love her, but soon after seeing what she truly was he resented his connection to her and, like what his old true nature told him, he confessed, causing a resent to appear within the town that never gave him his old trust
This story is about committing a sin against the Puritan culture that is all about holiness and living right before God. Their culture really took ‘living by the Bible” seriously and condemned those who didn’t obey God’s laws. It became a widely-known scandal all around the town and many people condemned and had hateful feeling for Hester. But the real effects of the hurtful sin actually affected the minister. The first character who
Augustine’s Confessions and Sin St. Augustine wrote many interesting things in his confessions. I personally thought that his writings of sin, and then the nature of good and evil are very interesting. Augustine struggled with sin his entire life and had to come to terms with it in his confessions. Also, while he talks of his sin and the nature of his sin he also talks of how things are inherently good, and that evil is just the reduction of good. St. Augustine shows that neither people, nor things are inherently evil, just that they can have effects that can be used for the wrong purposes.
The interplay of faith and reason in the trial of Job is similar to that of Abraham (and the story of his son), as they are both put to trial in order to test their faithfulness to God. Even though this ‘test’ is beyond logical understanding, reason becomes overridden by their steadfast belief in God, meaning, although God presented challenges that seemed unreasonable to his believers, Abraham and Job both kept faith in Him, even if it meant losing their loved ones and properties, all for the sake of keeping God alive in their life. In detail, Job is a well-respected, god-fearing man who is very devout to his faith. There came a time when Satan approached God so that he may put Job to the test and prove to Him that his faithful servant was only loyal because of his abundance in material wealth. What seems incomprehensible to reason is why God, an almighty and good being, would let Satan freely oppress Job, an innocent man.
I wanted to get to the bottom of what was going on with this portrait. There were many different topics to be discussed just by observing. This image has a many dark colors, dark bodies with wings and tails; it also has what seems to be normal people, and Jesus himself. Also in describing this portrait I would believe just by looking at it that these people in these caves are crying for help or forgiveness to be set free. Jesus seems to be letting the ones go that can be set free, but as they are set free they turn into these devilish images trying to get away.