In the movie “The Beach”, Leonardo DiCaprio is brought to a secluded island in Thailand. There he begins to live with several others who are mostly tourists who found out about the island. The island is sacred to them as it is their way to get away from the world and finding what they think is perfection. They think because they are away from the corruption of the world, that they will live a better life. But it seems that each person is corrupt in his or her own way. Throughout the film you can see greed, selfishness, envy, jealousy and betrayal. They tried to make a perfect world for them to live in but they did not realize that this would be impossible because they were also imperfect. The Bible states that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Paul writes that sin is a law. He said that he does the things he does not want to do. He said that when he sins it is no longer him but the sin living inside him. It seems that we all carry around our earthly, fleshly bodies that are sinful. We cannot attain perfection on our own. We can strive for it, but we will not attain it until we lose our earthly bodies when we die.
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