I think this is bad. ... In the Old Testament when Abraham sinned with his wife, handmaiden God said that Ishmael (Palestine) and Isaac's (Israel) nations would always fight over whose land it was. ... I feel bad for the people in the Middle East. ...
When bad was to happen among them they would accept it and move on but when God's goodness showed they all praised him and celebrated. A perfect example is, "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element" (22). ... They are just trying to get on God's good side so that nothing bad would to come of them. ...
Odysseus fell asleep and his men unleashed a bag of bad winds, throwing them off path (Homer 315). ... It is believed that each of the ways that a person could be guided is similar to the Christian beliefs of heaven and hell and the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians of weighing the soul for good and bad karma (McDonald 356). ... This is why many people wish to be buried in Israel, the holy land of the Jewish people. ...
"Lord of the Flies," by William Golding, is a novel about a group of English children who land on an island due to a plane crash. ... "Lord of the Flies" describes the defects of human nature, and how there is good and bad people in the world. ...
Faulkner kind of writes this story as a moralist, portraying why a sensible approach to hardship and disappointments are essential in life to avoid someone's problems to get so bad that it devours them like an inferno. ... It cleans out what was there before, leaving ashes to make new soil and a new land. ...
Also that he is not afraid when in a foreign land to ask or Gods help even if he may be looked at as different. ... This is also a really good book because it teaches you that your life isn't always as bad as it seems. ... This book like takes you to another place and shows you that your life isn't as bad as you think it is and that you can always and another way to fix it and that other people in other parts of the world have just as many problems as you do and they don't have therapists to fix them and their moms aren't always as nice as yours is when something goes wr...
It is therefore necessary for him to encounter these evil forces to be able to make a distinction between the good and the bad in order to recognize and resist the immoral. ... While his resolve to remain good is strong, he must decide only after encountering the evil, if his true passions lie in the woods, the land of evil, or if they lie in his Puritan way of life. ...
It was not a bad surrounding in Haran, and nobody knew if Canaan is truly as good as God described, but Abraham just followed God's shepherd and moved. ... But Abraham believed that God would give him the best land just as he promised, so he allowed Lot to stay in Jordan. ...
Mather also gives his own evidence of people going into the dark side, saying "yea, more than one twenty have confessed that they have signed unto a book, which the Devil showed them and engaged in his hellish design of bewitching and ruining our land." ... The passage leaves the impression that signing this book is like giving your soul to the Devil or doing a bad deed. ...
Indeed it took a person of great faith, belief and discipline to walk the path of a Puritan. The road that was less taken and often very demanding. It was the desire for holiness and the need of salvation from a world filled with sin that brought the early settlers to strive for such perfection. T...
In result if the gods were happy with you, your name would grow with great bounds across the land and many great stories would be told of you. ... No matter how bad it gets the Christian god is always doing it because he has a greater and better plan for us, just as the Greeks believe about their gods. ...
