Good and EvilThe Ministers Black VeilYoung Goodman Brown

We often hear conflicting moral teachings from our religious and secular leader. Many claim to have the true messages of God or the true message of Christianity. We hear about Christian values, or God’s will, or what the Bible says, or Jesus says. How can we tell who is interpreting the Bible with the true understanding and who is consciously or unconsciously, merely using it to serve their own ends. In class we discussed and read different forms of good and evil. I believe that Jesus gives us the answer in the parable of the good and bad fruits. He tells us to judge a teacher or minister by his or her deeds, not by his or her claims. An example would be that a fig tree produces only figs, so a good teacher will advocate only good deeds and will live a life of good deeds. Now a tree that produces poisoned fruit, a false teacher, will advocate evil deeds and practice evil deeds, even while claiming to give godly advice. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows an abundance of good and evil i...