In Mike Gordon’s article “The Consequences of Sin,” sin has numerous physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences. It can cause internal conflicts, leading to health issues and physical damage. Emotionally, sin can lead to emptiness, hopelessness, and brokenness, causing guilt, and depression. Spiritually, sin can break off our relationship with God, affecting our spiritual well-being. Sin and God don’t mix so we were broken off from him from the beginning where sin first entered the world. Many people feel unworthy of God due to their sins, so they never try to return to Him. It is important to consider the cost of sin and its potential consequences. There is no sin that is worth the consequences.

In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s novel “The Scarlet Letter,” sin is destructive. In the book there is a woman named Hester and she commits adultery and she is shamed for it. She was tied to constant "mocking infamy and ridicule” that felt like “the punishment of death itself" (Hawthorn 76). This sin destroys her life as she his frowned upon in this puritan society. She is casted out and lives here life with her daughter who acts as a living symbol for her sin. Another example in the book is by her husband, “Rodger Chillingworth.” He becomes so intent on revenge on the man who his wife, Hester, was with that people say he has become corrupted to where he has the appearance of the devil. Eventually he dies and pays for this intense desire for revenge.

I believe sin can be very destructive. It is destructive emotional, physically, and spiritually. It can be destructive emotionally in how you feel immense guilt for the sins that you commit when you don’t confess. It’s physically destructive in how you may want to do bodily harm to yourself because of your guilt. Finally, it is spiritually destructive because it hurts your relationship with God. Sin is destructive in every aspect in your life.