If you believe in god and you participate in sinning you will be punished when you go to heaven but you wouldn’t be considered one going to hell. In 2 edwards states, “Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. (Edwards 2) What Edwards is really trying to say in this quote is that on justice day god will know what you have done in life and in what situations you have sinned in. But if you do sin it doesn’t mean you’re a person from hell. God will always be open to hear your prayers and the problems that you need help
Evans 1 Jason Evans ENG 4U1-40 Mr. Burke 10/02/13 A Guilty Conscious A guilty conscious can eat away at a person’s soul and it is extremely difficult to break free from if the guilt is kept inside. Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are signs that lead to confession being the best choice. The use of Dimmesdale keeping his guilt a secret, the natural world and townspeople pressuring the characters to release their guilt, and Hester being a public figure for people to judge makes it obvious that confession is the best choice rather than keeping sin inside. Therefore, it is wiser for an individual to confess their sin. According to the novel, the best way to deal with sin is to confess
Sermons were used as tools of religious influence. Condemned criminals were depicted in ways which made their deaths seem justifiable due to the fact that they had violated Puritan beliefs. Puritan society felt the need to inhibit its people with fear in order to keep a strict hold on them and promote a crime free civilization. The sermons demonstrate clearly that crime was not handled lightly in Puritan society. Severe punishments were distributed for minor offences such as drunkenness, fortune telling and gambling.
Jonathan Edwards' purpose for writing Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is to explain how people need to be aware that God is the only person savying them from hell. People don't recognize this and feel that God is soley protecting them from sickness and danger. In effect, God is building a warath of madness that can become loose at any moment. Edwards' use of metaphors in the passage was to portray the power that God has. These mataphors sent a message to his audience back then, and convey a powerful meaning to society today.
For Edwards this included his view on religion. He believed that “There is nothing between you and Hell but the air; it is only the power and the mere pleasure of God that holds you up.” (41) He wanted to convince to repent, to be reborn in Christ. Last but not least, he wanted to save sinners from a decent into Hell’s fury. The moral of his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was therefore that if sin is committed, a persons tie with God is broken and they will fall into the hands of Hell. Edward’s diction and tone gives his listeners and readers an eerie feeling, a fear for sin, and an awakening for the wrath of God about to come.
Though Romans says that human nature is that we are sinners. Human beings are slaves to sin and seem to be powerless against it. We understand that we are not righteous at all, and that we need a relationship with God, so that we can be empowered by His righteous. His righteous comes through our faith in Jesus Christ. Only he can redeem, justify, and sanctify us, and we need all three for our salvation.
The bible also gives us Jesus’s teachings to show us how people in poverty and explain to us why it is so important to help people in poverty. Before the temptation Job was blessed by God, he had many possessions and a large family. Job is described by God as “blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” (Job 1:8) According to Gutierrez, Job followed a “doctrine of temporal retribution, which says that the upright are rewarded with prosperity and health, while sinners are punished with poverty and sickness.” (147) The Devil twists Job’s theology and puts him to the test. According to the devil “you have put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has. You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the
He did not tell the people about his sin like Hester Prynne's was told. This sin made it unable for him to preach and bring a good change into people's lives because he was impure. People looked at him with great trust and saw him as a man of god but he betrayed that trust by giving into his feeling of lust for a short period of time. He is a impure minister of hidden dark secret which is against the rules of god, religion, society, and being a man of faith. The Scarlett Letter delivers a messege into our lives and teaches us an important rule in life.
We don’t do things for a reward in heaven but we do them because the sign of Heaven is already inside of us. With faith and works we need to not do it for salvation but do it because God is working inside of us. The works that we do is the outworking of the faith that is inside of us. By not doing good works that we have been called to do we are potentially pushing down the work of God that is inside of us. Lewis’ view here is so true.
In Both “The Minister’s Black Veil” and The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne demonstrates how human nature is associated with human passion. He mainly targets the act of sin as his example of human nature regarding human passion. Hawthorne also seems to expose the true hypocrisy of the Puritan lifestyle, especially in these two stories. In the story “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne wrote about a man named Reverend Hooper. Hooper wore a black veil throughout the story in attempt to make a point to everyone that they all sinned, whether they wanted to admit it or not, and there was no point in trying to hide their sins… considering God was aware of them regardless of who else knew.