Sinners Like Me

explains in practical ways the implication, responsibilities and freedoms in which Christin community can posses. Mediation on this book has caused me to view community in a better way, focused on Christ and others, rather than myself and what I am able to received from it all. This book has wonderful thoughts and encouraged me to look within myself and convicted me in ways I had not thought I would be convicted. Firstly, what an amazing verse in which to meditate on, “Behold, how good and how pleasant

with eating with sinners Jesus replied by telling them three parables. Those parables are the parable of the lost coin, the parable of the lost sheep, and of course the parable of the prodigal son. If you have notice those three parables have a common denominator and that is something or someone gets lost and in the end once that thing or person will be celebrated for being found. This draws me to conclude that the three parables talks about celebrating and welcoming the sinners return to Jesus.

good or sinners. First, are we basically good or sin. According to the Bible we are sinners and according to the Quran we are basically good. I agreed with a Quran that is men is basically good and the men with what he is doing in his life make him sin or keep

walked from the living God. He could have done all of these things and he would not be wrong, he would be just telling the truth. However, God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8. Jesus was dying for people like that man. A terrible Sinner. The answer of Jesus brought about hope not only for that man, but also for all generation to come. At the moment that man confessed his sins, saying, “we are punished justly, for we are getting what

destruction of Satan, sin, and his angels. If a place like hell wouldn 't exist as a punishment for all sinners, then there will be not justice. “Through me you enter into the city of woes, through me you enter into eternal pain, through me you enter the population of loss. Abandon all hope, you who enter here” (Canto 17). The inscription portrays Hell as a place of eternal woes, pain, and loss, situating it as the center of God’s strict punishment of sinners, a place from which there is supposed to be no

be accomplished through first, acknowledging that you are a sinner. This accompanies a realization that you have done wrong, and that not only is no one else perfect, but neither are you. You must realize that there is a payment for our sins, which is an eternity in Hell. The second part of the salvation process, though not strictly necessary for salvation is the knowledge that the sinner is being saved from something (Hell). The sinner can also be lead to the knowledge that they are being saved

work through it. There are churches constantly asking for money, but do not even have relief programs, all the money goes to the church itself. In the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, we learn that Rev. Brown tries to act like a Christian. When his actions are compared to the Bible we see a big contrast, it

In the Bible, a star can be seen as a guide, like the Star of Bethlehem. However, in the poem the star is ‘fading’ (line 43). Eliot uses this to represent the movement away from the light, the movement of man away from morality and salvation. Eliot also mentions in the piece the concept of a ‘kingdom’

The Three Little Sinners Author’s diction, or word choice, determines his/hers tone and the emotion he puts into his literature. In Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Inferno the protagonist, Dante, travels through the nine circles of Hell and witnesses many different sinners from his past be punished. Dante is accompanied by Virgil, a Virtuous Pagan found in the first circle. Virgil was another great poet from history, author of the Aeneid. Alighieri wrote this poem after being exiled from Florence

those in hell. First, one can see this portrayed in the second circle of hell by the lustful. The lustful, whose actions often led them and their lovers to death, suffer for their sins by means of fire: "Into this torment carnal sinners are thrust, So I was told the sinners who make their reason, Bond thrall under the yoke of their lust." (Inferno. 5.37-9). When first entering the second circle Dante, “beholds a place completely dark, where there is noise worse than that of a storm at sea. Lamenting