The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is about a man who killed the spirt of God and the consequences that followed his actions. He was allowed to live to tell others of his mistakes and to help people not commit the same mistakes in their life. In this story, he tells a wedding guest and the wedding guest is a wiser and sadder man because of this. This wedding guest learned that you are to never kill God's blessing, you are to show penitence, and to tell others of the mistakes you make. This paper will discuss those three points
             The Mariner first warns of the dangers of killing God's blessing. As a result of killing the blessing of God, the mariner was punished. "Day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motion: as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink: water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night: the water, like a witch's oils, burnt green and blue and white."(pages 177-178) This quote used shows that God wasted no time in beginning to punish the mariner for his crimes. Ignoring the spirit of God or harming it in anyway is a crime that does not go unpunished. In Zechariah 7:12-13 it says, "Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts."Another example of What is to come when killing God's spirit is, "I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; but or ever a prayer had gushed, a wicked whisper came, and made my heart as dry as dust."(p...