The Seven Deadly Sins

Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.

Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.

Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.

Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.

Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.

Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.

Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

Examples:

Pride: Being too pride to accept help with something that you need help with.

Envy: When you like something that someone else has and you really want it.

Gluttony: Eating too much and obesity

Lust: Wanting something badly

Anger: Being angry at everything and everyone

Sloth: Being lazy and not wanting to do anything

The Lion King

1. Who are the ‘good’ characters from the film? List them.

Simba, Mufassa, Sazu, Pumba, Timon, Reffekki, Nala.

2. Who are the ‘evil’ characters from the film? List them.

Scar, Warthogs, Ed, Shenzi, Benzi

3. What qualities help define Simba as a ‘good’ character? Explain some of his personality traits and things he does in the film that demonstrate his ‘goodness’.

Simba always stands up for his friends and is very brave in taking back his kingdom from Scar.

4. What qualities help define Scar as an ‘evil’ character? Explain some of his personality traits and things he does in the film that demonstrate his ‘evilness’.

Scar is evil because he killed Mufassa, tricked Simba and made Simba’s kingdom go into a famine.

5. What is the ultimate evil act that Scar does? Why does he do this? What does this make you think or feel about his character?

Scar kills Mufassa so that he can take over Pride Rock and the kingdom.

If there is no free will then we wouldn’t be able to a make one on one relationship with God which would make us slaves because if we don’t have God then how did the universe start who gave us life no one I don’t think so if we don’t have God then we wouldn’t have free will and if we didn’t have free will we wouldn’t be alive.

If one of my friends stole a copy of a science exam that had a 50% weighting on our final results of the year I would try to talk him out of selling it and try and talk him into returning it however he can and if he wouldn’t listen then I would tell our science teacher that he stole the test.

Y charts

GOOD

Looks Like: The Law

Sounds Like: The right thing

Feels Like: Safety

EVIL

Looks Like: Jail

Sounds Like: The wrong thing

Feels Like: Danger

BEAUTY

Looks Like: Attractive

Sounds Like: A Model

Feels Like: Confidence in your looks

TRUTH

Looks Like: The Bible

Sounds Like: The correct thing to say

Feels Like: A lifted burden

Origins of Good and Evil

Today we studied the first three chapters of Genesis, which explain the Christian understanding of HOW evil came into the world.

When I first heard these stories, I thought that God was very powerful and ashamed of what Adam and Eve had done.

We then created Wordles to see how the language changed in each chapter.

In the Wordle for chapter 1, the main words and ideas were the, and, God and was.

In the Wordle for chapter 2, the main words and ideas were God, man and lord.

In the Wordle for chapter 3, the main words and ideas were God, lord and eat.

In each Wordle God was a big word therefore was mentioned many times in each chapter and man, eat and Lord were smaller therefore were mentioned less in each chapter.

I think this means that God is always focused on in the bible than many other things.

I think the word temptation means we think about doing something we know is bad, but we do it anyway.

If I had to connect temptation with good and evil, I would say

Studying Genesis has helped in my journey to discover good and evil by explaining the difference between good and evil.

Religion and Philosophy

We have now found out about the beliefs of Christianity (religion) and Plato (philosopher) regarding good and evil.

Christianity believes that good is following the bible.

Christianity believes that evil is disobeying the bible.

This is different to what Plato believed.

Plato believed good and evil were an illusion that people believed were true.

This is called idealism.

When I look at these different ideas, the one that makes most sense to me is Christianity.

This is because I have been bought up in a Christian family.

After studying these new ideas, I think that good and evil could be described as the law and crime or obeying the Ten Commandments and disobeying the Ten Commandments.