Monday, April 9, 2012

Book of <3 #1

The prologue in verse is filled with reasons why God deserves the highest respect and why he should be feared by everyone. Many of these reasons is because he has freed those who were in helpless, from the slaves in Egypt to Jonah and the whale. Since he has the power to free people from trouble, he will free our souls from evil if we choose to follow God.These reasons were proof for people who needed to understand God's saving power. In the prose version of the prologue, it seems to me that people were mentally unstable if they could not understand God's ways and the consequences of sin. But some people are not feared by God because they are disabled, but because they were either not strongly educated about God's saving ways,or just lack faith in him because they are in need of evidence of his good deeds. And since we all lose faith once in awhile it is we all have a "defective memory", said by the reading. Because of our inability to retain what we should and shouldn't do, we have paintings and sculptures to remind us of God's wishes. It is implied that life is naturally filled with more evil, causing a human being to naturally sin. This makes me see life is a game; the goal is to have a pure life and live in heaven with God forever once you reach death, but in order to do that, you must defeat evil's challenge by choosing not to sin.



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