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    trust and love can bring disaster especially by temptation. The authors of both myths also reflect an ideology for the audience as the rules were made to be broken. The author of "Adam‚ Eve and the Serpent" introduces the snake‚ representing as temptation‚ this character of this myth told Eve "Ye Shall Not surely die: for God doth know That in the day ye eat thereof‚ then Shall be as gods‚ knowing good and evil. The author shows how the temptation is presented to Eva. Eva is characterized as trust

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    sinners; which therefore distorts the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer as the Church would pray it‚ (Work “Loving Jesus the Wrong Way”) The heresy of Apollinarianism puts to question the ability of Jesus to forgive our trespasses and understand our temptations. The heresy of Dynamic Monarchianism distorts the motivation behind praying the Lord’s Prayer by making it a predominantly legalistic action‚ in hope of salvation by works. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer‚ we ask the Lord to “forgive us our trespasses

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    Tom Godwin’s short story “ The Cold Equations “ demonstrates temptation vs reality‚ when the reality of something is not what is wanted but the outcome cannot be changed through temptation. A 17-year-old girl‚ Marilyn‚ had made a mistake by sneaking on to and EMS cruiser because she wanted to see her brother‚ that she hadn’t seen in years‚ who was working at the destination of the cruiser. When she got found by the pilot he had thought that the stowaway was like any other man and protocol was said

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    but where did this concept of inadequacy originate from? Many societies have unique cultural values initiated by reoccurring themes present in their creation stories‚ but the most questionable phenomenon is the introduction of evil into the world. Temptation is the root of all evil‚ so powerful that it is omnipresent and rules over the world creating an obligation for sin. Because of the preconceived inadequacy of women evident in today’s culture‚ the identification of women

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    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ “Young Goodman Brown” the author retells the Adam and Eve story a twist. The temptation of evil and the search for knowledge are evident in "Young Goodman Brown." However‚ Hawthorne’s biblical references to Adam and Eve‚ are inverted.. Young Goodman Brown plays the Eve role. Despite Fairth‚ his wife‚ begging him to stay with her‚ Brown walks into the forest at dusk. He is tempted by an old man carrying a walking stick like a "serpent’s tail" (Hawthorne 271). The man admonished

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    IAssignment One 2. Do you think Frank O’Connor is a skillful storyteller? If so‚ comment on some of his storytelling skills in The Man of the House. Use examples from the text to support your answer. A skillful story teller should be able to captivate his/her audience with appealing plots‚ and deliver his/her central message effectively. In the lights of these‚ I think Frank O’Connor’s short story The Man in the House is skillfully written. The story is peppered with an interesting sense

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    to temptation as well‚ and they both eat from it. This leads to God becoming angry. God then punished Adam and Eve and all their descendants. God made life harder in different ways. Women would now feel extreme pain during child birth. Men would have to work and sweat. It is very hard not to fall into temptations. Temptations are everywhere; these include lust‚ lying‚ and cheating. Adam and Eve were given specific instructions not to eat the fruit‚ but they disobeyed. They fell to temptation. This

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    eventually lead to their death. Knowing all this‚ the apostle’s‚ led by faith jumped into the world of Christianity. Did they face the same temptations that today’s minister’s face? There are mounds of pressures that are experienced by today’s ministers. Most pressures are placed on the minister by himself. It may come from his own weakness of temptations‚ a current lifestyle he may be living‚ a social environment that is not conducive to proper rules of conduct‚ financial demands or even sexual

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    dangerous trials during his trip back to Ithaca after the Trojan War. In this story Odysseus is portrayed as an epic hero. This can be seen through the fact that he is essentially noble‚ performs amazing tasks and feats and overcome weakness and temptations most would not be able to endure. Odysseus is essentially noble and this is a component of most epic heroes. This quality is first seen in the beginning of the book; Odysseus is the king of Ithaca and is noble in blood. But Odysseus is not only

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    then be lead to the temptation to continuously act on this motive. In the Odyssey‚ main character‚ Odysseus left his wife‚ Penelope‚ for a journey and did not return until twenty years later. During this time Odysseus shared his love with numerous other woman‚ continuously falling into the temptation of physical pleasure. While in modern times‚ professional golfer‚ Tiger Woods‚ endured in the same actions as Odysseus‚ being unfaithful to his wife also falling into the temptation of physical pleasure

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