'Obedience and Sin'

' well-nigh of the variants of the creation falsehood begin with an second of disobedience as the beginning of sin. In the Bible, Eve eats an apple from the proscribe tree and they ar cast pop out of Eden. Greek mythology holds that when Prometheus gave the devote of fire to humans, the gods were kindle and gave Pandora a box, cognise that she would open it and loosen conclusion, sorrow and plague onto mankind. The fall of man is a ballpark theme end-to-end mythology, literature and religion. However, throughout history, obedience has non constantly been determine with virtue and disobedience has non always been identified with sin. imposture obedience to the performs function has conduct to big suffering and death while disobedience to the perform services dogma has led to some of our sterling(prenominal) scientific breakthroughs.\nThe Spanish inquisition was an try on to control the great deal by forcing confessions of heterodoxy and demanding obedien ce to the Catholic Church. The Spanish Inquisition began in 1492 by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I when they issued the Alhambra Decree which tenacious all Jews in Spanish possess lands to leave and never come back. Those who chose to expect would be required to convert to Catholicism. nearly Jews who remained truly born-again to Catholicism. Others converted in public but go along to practice Judaism privately. These crypto-Jews were considered misbelievers. The churchs commentary of heresy was very specific. Freeman states:\nA heretic publicly declared his beliefs (based upon what the church considered inaccurate interpretations of the Bible) and refused to patronise them, even aft(prenominal) being correct by the authority. He also attempt to teach his beliefs to different people. He had to be doing these things by his witness free will, not under the lick of the devil.\nTherefore, heresy was openly and publicly disobeying the church. When soulfulness wa s called out as a heretic by the inquisition, they were pressure to confess to the heresy and... '