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Who would you be if you were a character in Pilgrim’s Progress? Would you help Christian, or would you try and stop Christian from reaching the Celestial City? I believe that I would be known as Brianus. I would help Christian along his long, tiresome journey. For Brianus would help through honesty, would help focus on the goal, and would help Christian focus on the Biblical facts. Through honesty, Brianus would help Christian through telling him what is wrong and what is right. For if one does not know what is right and what is wrong, then what is the point of a pilgrimage? Christian and Hopeful should have known, when they crossed into the horrid grounds of the giant Despair, that what they were doing was dreadfully wrong, but recklessly

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