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2 Sermon Illustrations on The Nature of Sin

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Sin is understood as a fundamental moral failing that separates humanity from God, often depicted as a corrupting force or a burden that distorts the soul (Romans 3:23). Illustrations frequently use images of darkness, chains, or wounds to convey its destructive and enslaving nature, emphasizing the need for redemption (1 John 1:8-10).

Good, Mistere of

Good and evil are closely intertwined, making discernment difficult.

Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances, hard to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

— Milton

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster

Light, Injury From

Indirect light can harm the eyes more than direct light, illustrating hidden dangers.

In a moral sense it is better to face the light than to have it shine on us indirectly.

Do not make the mistake of supposing that brilliant lights are harmless except when looked at directly. As a matter of fact they are even more dangerous when so placed as to shine into the eyes sidewise or from above, since the eye is less accustomed to receive bright light from such directions. In other words, light from such direction falls upon the outer parts of the surface of the retina, which, being less accustomed to receive bright light, are the more quickly injured by it. Cases are on record where persons working in the vicinity of bare lamps so placed have entirely lost the sight of one or both eyes.--_The Illuminating Engineer._

from Cyclopedia of Illustrations for Public Speakers · Robert Scott and William C. Stiles

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