not be even one saved person in the world. Salvation is offered to all helpless sinners who are willing to believe God. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. This is evident in The Bible:
“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”(Luke1, 45)
“So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me.”(Acts, 27,25)
“(Abraham)… was strengthened in his faith… being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.”(Romans4, 20,21)
The above three quotations from The Bible help us to realize that faith depends on what God has said or promised to do. Even an honest man tries to fulfill his words, and let alone God. If a Christian believes God’s words completely, God will always accomplish them. In regard to God, He must keep His words and His deeds the same all the time. Whatever He has said, He will let it become true. “Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?”(Numbers 23, 19)
Then what is faith? Faith is just the firm belief that all these God has said are true. When God says that something is in existence, although you has not see it personally, faith would make you feel that it really exists. If God says that He will bless you, you would believe by your faith that you are already blessed. When God says that something is going to happen or that He will accomplish something for you, you would believe in Him or His words if you are faithful. “Now f英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】aith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”(Hebrews11,1) Faith always make people to believe God and His omnipotence to fulfill His promises only through His words.
Therefore, although Hester Prynne has profaned God and is suffering, she could be saved if she has faith in God. Faith is the only way that can offer her salvation. Generally speaking, Hester Prynne is a Christian rebel. She’s severely tortured by the church :sent to jail, exposed publicly ,forced to wear the scarlet letter “A ”,etc .At the very beginning ,she wants to atone for her crime wholeheartedly .However, increasingly severe persecution and endless humiliation shake her religious believing and diminish her religious faith gradually. All these make her rebel. “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate, and shadowy as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her flee. The scarlet let
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