The thesis of Bevere is that when we take the offense into our hearts, we will build up anger, jealousy, hatred, or bitterness within us. The consequences will lead us to attacks, insults, separation, broken relationship, or cursing others. That is the trap of Satan who wants to destroy relationships among people and to lead people to sin against God. By switching to the offended person, Bevere tries to urge today’s Christians to be released from the bondage and trap of offense. So that Christians can live in harmony with love to show the world that our Heavenly Father who is the source of this love.
According to Bevere, holding on to an offense of unforgiveness is like holding on a debt against someone. If we do not forgive, we desire to seek
revenge. We want to collect the debt from the ones who offend us. If we keep our anger and bitterness with binding of our feelings of being offended, we are still sitting on the seat of the judge trying to seek revenge. Reconciliation is the ultimate objective since God is the one who initiated to seek the reconciliation with us. God wants us to find our brother who offenses us and seek to be reconciled with him. We need to resist the temptation to hold a grudge; otherwise, we may still hold the anger and bitterness that lead us to judge our brothers and to seek revenge. Only God is the just Judge who will pass righteous judgment and repay according to righteousness. (Bevere, 136) We can obtain the freedom from offense through the dwelling in God’s Word, imitating Christ, practicing of genuine love, obeying the voice of the Spirit, practicing submission to God and trusting Him wholeheartedly, living in a fear of God, and humble ourselves to love God fully and love others.
The North American Slave Trade began when slave traders started to kidnap people of all ages from West Africa. They were forced to endure unspeakable horrors on their trek across the Atlantic as well as when they were finally sold into slavery in the Americas. Olaudah Equiano was one of the few Africans to document his experience on paper, and have his two volume autobiography published. The journey Olaudah suffers through showed the horrors of the trip across the atlantic, but also showed how what he thought and felt about the process as well.
The essay "Forgiveness," written by June Callwood, explores the concept of forgiving and how it influences people's lives for the better. Her work describes many components of forgiveness, such as how difficult it can be to come to terms with, why it is such a crucial part of humanity, and how it affects all people. Her essay aims to prove that forgiveness is the key to living peacefully and explains specific examples of people who have encountered extremely difficult situations in their lives- all of whom found it within themselves to forgive. To clearly portray this message in her writing, Callwood uses several strategies. She includes fear inducing statistics, makes many references to famous events and leaders, and uses a serious convincing tone, all of which are very effective.
The Superego works to suppress the urges of the id, and tries to make the ego behave morally, rather than realistically (Friedman). The fight with the dragon is the ultimate test of Beowulf’s maturity. Beowulf grew
Europeans during the 16th Century had made unique technological and intellectual advancements, they expanded their knowledge and continued to spread their dominance across the world. These advancements perpetuated the idea that their race was superior to other races and that they had the right to hold other groups of people accountable for what they saw as transgressions. Europeans felt the need to control and make sure that all groups of people were following their moral state of conducts. In History of A Voyage to the Land Of Brazil, Jean De Lery introduces the main motivation of the Europeans journey to the Americas by emphasizing that it was influenced by Christian values ( Lery 3). This shows how the concept of Christianity is important
Forgiveness and justice are very similar than we believe them to be. We believe that justice is
2 This idea of being punished for an unremembered crime refers to the Christian belief in original sin. 2 According to Christian theology, all humans are sinners, from the time they are born, for which they will be eternally punished. 2 But Only through God’s grace can people be saved. 2 In this perception, humans “forget” their crime, yet are punished nonetheless, just as the Misfit states. 2 Even More, the grandmother has her moment of grace when she acknowledges the Misfit as one of her “own children,” recognizing how very similar she is to the Misfit for the first time. 2 She isn’t morally superior, as she has always believed. 2 Instead, both are struggling in their own ways to come to terms with the difficult, often debatable belief of the Christian faith.
—Forgiveness is a suite of prosocial motivational changes that happened after a person has incurred a transgression (McCullogh). McCullogh also asserts the forgiveness process includes empathy for the transgressor, generous attributions and appraisals regarding the transgression and transgressor, and rumination abalout the transgression where agreeableness takes a serious place in the person who needs to forgive someone. Andre was impressed by his father’s work, the emotion developed in Andre’s mind have given up revenge and resentment thought to his father. When Andre’s father had an accident that made his legs crushed and had to sit on a wheelchair for the rest of his life; Andre immediately felt how vulnerable people are. He cherished the relationship with his father, in fact after the accident Andre started to cherish everyone besides him. The accident was a trigger to a prosocial motivational change to Andre and his father’s relationship. “But deliver us from evil. Amen” (Dubus, 387). Andre prayed on his father’s funeral. Forgiveness needs something to trigger; Andre understand pop’s condition and forgave him. Andre knew that his father has done the best he could, and he was happy and grateful that he had a father. Moreover, Andre’s life was full of sports, the healing process was impacted by
A hero is a man of courage and ability who is admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. A hero is a person who does not come along very often in any time period. He is a special person, who is a step above the average person in the way that he handles any situation that may arise.
It can be hard to fully understand the frustration and temptations that come with being a slave. To be treated so inhumane day in and day out by an entire race of people can drive one to the edge. There were some slaves who simply felt that it was their human right and obligation to fight back. There was once a slave revolt that was attempted in Richmond, Virginia in 1800. The revolt was coined and lead by a slave by the name of Gabriel Prosser. He was born a slave in the year 1776 in Henrico County, Virginia. Thomas H. Prosser was Gabriel’s master, as well as the master of Gabriel’s wife and two brothers. All of them aided Gabriel Prosser in his revolution.
The story of the epic hero, Beowulf, has been translated by many authors throughout the years. Among the many authors is Burton Raffel. Burton Raffel tried to instill or incorporate and project an emphasis on the importance of the qualities that a hero should posses. Burton Raffel translated Beowulf in 1963 after 44 other translations of Beowulf. As a translator, Burton Raffel faced what many other translators had to capture – the ideas of the author.
Excerpt: "When we’re first betrayed by someone we relied on to love and protect us, we may be frightened by our own rage. Years or even decades later, we may be frightened of letting go of that anger. We may resist moving forward because we are not yet ready to detach from our suffering." - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., Psychology Today
One of the main modern ideas today is that not everything people do is going to be perfect. In today's society people accept mistakes, they learn and strive off of them. People don’t judge each other off of one mistake. Making a few mistakes doesn't mean they are a bad person. In the movie, Beowulf is not completely noble, but that doesn't make him a terrible person. He is a great king but he has trouble being faithful. As in the poem, he is completely noble, honorable, and faithful. They make him this way in the poem because in
In the story of Berenice, she is the protagonist in the story of the same name. Poe’s narrator is Egaeus, Berenice’s cousin, to whom she is engaged to marry. As this story begins Poe has the narrator describe Berenice in comparison to himself. The reader is able to begin to visualize Berenice as a child with these lengthily comparisons. The narrator Eageus, begins by saying that although they grew up together there childhood was very different when he says, “we grew up together in my paternal halls. Yet differently we grew.” (Wordpress, 2012 p. 33) The narrator describes himself as a sick child confined indoors and Berenice as a child full of life, and unsuspecting of the illness that will eventually consume her life. This is seen
Asking to forgive is often considered as hard words and it rarely comes out from anybody’s mouth. However, when said, it gets harder to ignore the same. In our lifetime we have been on both the sides. We might have asked somebody to forgive or somebody could have asked us to forgive them. However, the emotional concern often results from unforgiveness. When you do not forgive a person or if somebody does not forgive you, it often leads to bitterness, resentment, hated and anger. Many families often develop depression as well as social behavioral problems due to hatred and anger. In a few cases it has led to serious issues like murder.
Steven Standiford, chief of surgery at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, says that unforgiveness can make people sick. Emotional wounds are more harmful to our health than we realize. Built up anger will weaken your immune system causing you to feel sick more often. For this reason, we must make forgiveness a lifestyle rather than a one-time event. We must learn how to surrender the burden of anger and resentment over to God and allow Him to heal the wounds caused by others. When we forgive from our hearts, we will begin to experience the peace of God in our souls. Unforgiveness is an unnecessary weight that we carry around not realizing that it’s weighing us down and hindering our growth.