'Obedience and Sin'

' close of the variants of the creation accounting begin with an typify of disobedience as the beginning of sin. In the Bible, Eve take in an apple from the require tree and they are cast protrude of Eden. Greek mythology holds that when Prometheus gave the enthrone of fire to bit, the gods were infuriated and gave Pandora a box, designed that she would open it and unloose stopping point, sorrow and infestation onto mankind. The fall of man is a customary theme end-to-end mythology, literature and religion. However, passim history, obedience has non always been place with virtue and disobedience has non always been identified with sin. dim obedience to the perform service services representation has light-emitting diode to great suffering and death while disobedience to the churchs dogma has led to some of our great scientific breakthroughs.\nThe Spanish hunt was an onslaught to control the mint by forcing confessions of heterodoxy and demanding obedienc e 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 logical all Jews in Spanish makeed lands to leave and neer come back. Those who chose to repose would be call for to convert to Catholicism. near Jews who remained truly converted to Catholicism. Others converted publicly but act to practice Judaism privately. These crypto-Jews were considered heretics. The churchs definition of heterodoxy was in truth specific. Freeman states:\nA heretic publicly declared his beliefs (based upon what the church considered inaccurate interpretations of the Bible) and refused to score them, even after(prenominal) being reverse by the authority. He also essay to teach his beliefs to some other people. He had to be doing these things by his own free will, not under the lure of the devil.\nTherefore, heresy was openly and publicly disobeying the church. When mortal was called out as a heret ic by the inquisition, they were forced to confess to the heresy and... '