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Moral Lesson Christian Belief
890 words
# 8216; The Red Shoes' is an imaginary and unreal
story related by Hans Christian Anderson. Anderson
makes effective use of fantasy to teach a moral
lesson. He builds up the story in such a way that
the reader does not care for the validity of the
incidents. The moral lesson is that the proud and
the disobedient must suffer. Disobedience is a
sin, and according to the Christian belief it is
what started the demise in the heavens above, so
anybody who commits it must suffer. Whatever sins
man com...
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Christianity And Islam God The Father
734 words
Although they share several basic theological
ideas, Christianity and Islam differ on countless
key characteristics. The most prominent
differences include atonement, the identity of
God, heaven, view of Jesus, and the means views of
the Bible. It is these not-so-subtle contrasts of
thoughts that separate the two most prevalent
religions in the world. One of the most important
differences in Christianity and Islam is the
concept of atonement. In Christianity, Jesus death
on the cross allows Chri...
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Heaven And Hell Son Of God
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There are many substantial and vital distinctions
between Judaism and Christianity. Of course there
are many similarities, primarily because
Christianity emerged from Judaism. However, the
emergence was not a direct line. Christianity
broke from Judaism, forming a new religion, so it
is misleading, however comfortable the thought
might be, to believe that the two religions are
essentially the same, or to see Christianity as
the natural continuation of Judaism. Judaism's
central belief is that th...
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Laius And Jocasta King And Queen
1,418 words
Sophocles' play Oedipus the King was written for a
Greek audience as a religious right and lesson
around two thousand years ago, while Ibsen's play
Ghosts was written as a criticism of the Norwegian
society during the 1890 's. Although these plays
were written for very different reasons and under
different circumstances, the universal theme
connecting them is mankind's liability to sin
because the results affect a greater whole. One of
the more specific themes of these plays is the
negative effe...
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Modern Figures In Dantes Inferno
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Dantes masterpiece, Inferno, is one of the most
influential pieces of literature ever written.
While the Inferno has no divine inspiration behind
it, it serves as an example for many people to
depict the horrendous tortures that await those
who disobey Gods rules. Dante had hell divided
into nine layers. These layers are limbo, lust,
gluttony, avarice, wrath, heretic, violence,
fraud, and treachery. There were different,
creative punishments awaiting the victims on each
layer, and the severity o...
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Augustine Then Moves Moves On To Talk Sin
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St. Augustine: True Confessions Books I to IX.
Concept of sin The Confessions presents St.
Augustine's deepest understanding of sin. He
explores the realm of human sin by delving deep
into the roots of humanity like the sins of Adam,
and even those of a newly born child, who, from
the frame of reference of any average human is the
most pure speck of human life. The Confessions
expounds the profound observation that St.
Augustine makes on the dynamics of sin. The human
condition of anterior bonda...
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Guilty Conscience First Confession
1,111 words
The Symbolism of Religion and Comparison In
comparing the books Confession of the Jews and
First Confession, I have found there to be
similarities and differences. For example, First
Confession deals with a boy converting from a boy
to a young man by going to confession and telling
his sins for the first time. Conversion of the
Jews deals with converting a boy into someone he
has never really seen which was a free thinker
which only older people usually do. In Conversion
of the Jews Ozzie, who w...
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Philosophy Of Religion Catholic Faith
1,534 words
The content of Confessions Confessions The content
of my paper will be an analysis of Augustine's
Confessions. I will focus on the first nine
chapters of the book. First, I will write an
introductory page about Augustine. Second, I will
explain why Augustine wrote the Confessions and
the importance of the Confessions as a
philosophical work. I will analyze Augustine's
view of God and show the main theme of his book,
which is, the sovereign God of grace and the
sovereign grace of God. I will focu...
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Nature Of Sin And Punishment Sin And Punishment Hell
966 words
The journey of Dante through Hell, in both its
structure and content, symbolizes the nature of
sin and punishment. The structure of the book
takes the reader step by step through greater and
greater sins. The content of the book shows the
different punishments for sins which are symbolic
of the sins themselves; it also, through its
language, shows how Hell compares to life. This
book was written for Christians and deals heavily
with religion, but can be interpreted and learned
from in an existen...
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Seven Deadly Sins Relationship With God
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A significant idea contained within Dantes The
Divine Comedy is the Augustinian concept of
ordered and disordered love. Each realm of the
afterlife symbolizes the type of love the
inhabitants exercised while they were living on
earth. For example, the Inferno represents
disordered love, since the souls in Hell exhibited
little love for mankind and little acknowledgement
of God. Because the kind of love Hell symbolizes
is the worst type that anyone could possess, it is
located nearest to the cent...
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Hester Prynne Abigail Williams
568 words
Trials of Her Sins Hester Prynne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne's character from his novel, The Scarlet
Letter, and Abigail Williams, from The Crucible by
Arthur Miller, have both committed a crime and
they are both hated by their societies. However,
there are also differences between the two
characters. Hester Prynne is the more respectable
Puritan woman of the two because she did not
commit as many sins as Abigail did, she was not as
secretive about it, and her actions only affected
herself and her chil...
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Saint Thomas Aquinas Theory Of Natural
1,534 words
Saint Thomas Aquinas, as a philosopher, wrote
several works that justified Christianity in a
philosophical context, taking cue on Aristotle's
old writings. Naturally, Aquinas took up on the
Church's " ultra-conservative" views on
sexuality and worked to rationalize them through
his own theory of natural law. Aquinas argues
against any form of sex where the intention to
produce children is not involved. He explains this
through his theory of natural law, where sex is
purely for the purp...
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Black Veil Black
931 words
? The Minister? s Black Veil? Sin is an issue that
every human being has to deal with at one time or
another in his or her lifetime. Sin is dealt with
in many ways. Some people try to hide their sins,
some try to push them aside and some try to deal
with their sins in a more conventional way. The
largest place for confessing sins in the world is
the confessional booth at a church. People go to
tell their sins, and feel cleansed afterwards. But
what happens when a man who hears confessions day
af...
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Ninth Circle World
1,680 words
Part One Sins of Incontinence (She-Wolf)
(excepting, of course, the first circle) Circle
One- Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Children
(Limbo) This circle is a grassy field illuminated
by the light of human reason. Here reside the
great poets of antiquity, whom Dante envies
greatly. The only pain of the people here is that
they have no hope. Circle Two- Lustful Persons
(The Carnal) Those who reside here gave themselves
up to their passions. They swirl in an eternal
wind (lust) through murky air (...
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Jesus Christ Divine Nature
5,316 words
The New Testament authors had no qualms about
declaring that Jesus was truly human and telling
us that Jesus committed no sin. Bible passages
such as 2 Corinthians 5: 21, Hebrews 4: 15, 1
Peter 2: 22 and 1 John 3: 5 witness that He
[Jesus] did not give in to temptation, nor violate
the moral standards of God, nor was He
inconsistent with the nature of his character.
That is, Jesus was sinless. It is vital to our
theology that Jesus was sinless. For only if Jesus
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God Chapter Four
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The book of Proverbs Proverbs The book of Proverbs
explains the wisdom of the Lord and the duties
towards God and our parents. We should praise God
for his wisdom because He created us and the
world. God tells us that we need to be prepared
when we serve Him because He will judge us when we
die. We need to accept whatever falls upon us and
make the best of it like God would want us to do.
The book of Proverbs tells us that we need to
cling on to Him which to me that means we should
follow His te...
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Scarlet Letter Hester Person In The World
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Pearl is the living embodiment of the scarlet
letter because she forces Hester and Dimmesdale to
accept their sins. The Puritan society looks at
Pearl as a child of the devil, and a black hearted
girl because she is the result of sin. Hester and
Dimmesdale are both in the same situation in
Pearl? s eyes. Pearl wants Hester to realize that
she is not the worst person in the world before
she removes the scarlet letter. Pearl wants
Dimmesdale to accept his sin, and be part of their
life publicly. P...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Salem Witch Trials
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Guilt as Reparation for Sin in The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is a novel about a Puritan
woman who has committed adultery and must pay for
her sin by wearing a scarlet A on her bosom. The
woman, Hester Prynne, must struggle through
everyday life with the guilt of her sin. The novel
is also about the suffering that is endured by not
admitting to one s wrongs. Reverend Mister
Dimmesdale learns that secrecy only makes the
guilt increase. Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to
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Divine Comedy Jesus Christ
1,394 words
From the beginning of human history there have
always been sinners, and people tried to give just
punishments to them. It has always been a major
issue whether or not the penalties for the
criminals are just because unfair punishment can
ruin somebody s life. It can also bring disasters
to the society if criminals do not learn any
lessons from the penalties. Dante s Inferno in the
Divine Comedy suggests clear thoughts on the
appropriate punishments for a variety of sins.
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Seven Deadly Sins Snow White And The Seven
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In the poem, Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins
(reprinted in Thomas R. Arp, Perrines Literature:
Structure, Sound, and Sense, 7 th ed. [Fort Worth:
Harcourt, 1998 ] 854), author R. S. Gwynn presents
the reader with an account of a womans struggle to
stay faithful to both her husband and to God. The
poem openly alludes to the fairy tale of Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, the Snow
White in this poem is living anything but a fairy
tale existence. The first two stanzas of the poem
discu...
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