Welcome to Ars Artium, Volume 3, January 2015. It turns out that the omniscient God did apprehend her being deeply mired in sin and did care about her purity, It turns out that the God she was trying so desperately to escape did exist by answering her prayer and keeping Bendrix alive though she did not wish to believe in him as she was committing adultery which she thought was only between her and God. Sarah had told God to make her believe in him even though she did not by keeping Bendrix alive. Indeed Bendrix emerges alive in an answered prayer to her and she has to stop seeing him and start believing in God even though it was not what she wanted. She had prayed that if God kept Bendrix alive, she would stop seeing him.

It turns out that she had prayed to God to keep Bendrix alive when a bomb blast took place in the building they were having an affair in. Sarah for one is a woman who desperately does not want to believe in God but discovers that she cannot escape his presence. He hires a private detective Savage to find out what had happened in the two year interval since she had stopped seeing him, and discovers she has since had an affair with another man. However he could never persuade Sarah to leave Henry for him even though it was a loveless marriage. Bendrix is deeply jealous of Henry, whose wife Sarah had an affair with him in the past.

In Graham Greene's the End of the Affair, God is shown to be an omniscient presence whom the characters fail to escape even though they try to pretend that he does not exist.

Thus juxtaposed is the secular empiricism of Ida Arnold and the intense religious sensibilities of Pinkie and Rose – it is legal justice that Ida seeks in seeking revenge for Hale's murder but Pinkie and Rose are spiritually awakened to a different kind of justice.It is thus because Scobie has a conscience that he experiences despair because he knows the gravity of his sin unlike the evil man who is without conscience and always has the hope that sin has no consequence, it is Scobie's conscience as a man of faith that convinces him of his damnation. Hence the God of Greene's world is a God that all the characters come to fear though they do not necessarily love Him because He keeps them from their most intimate desires because he construes them as sin and punishes and distributes justice accordingly. Thus Greene has examined the nature of the inexhaustibility of the Church though the lieutenant has strived to eliminate all physical traces of the church the church is ultimately transcendental and lives on as a spiritual presence and an image of Christ that lives on in the minds and hearts of his followers even though Christ is no longer physically present on earth.

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