Fundamentalism builds on this foundation: since all are sinners, the precise degree of sinfulness of the individual is unimportant. (religion-online.org)
Such a rejection is not uncommon in modern theology, but it overlooks the significance of human sinfulness as responsible action, an action that even God takes seriously. (firstthings.com)
If Israel read the shame of her own sinfulness in the sins of Jacob, she also understood that the divine promise to Jacob was the promise of Yahweh to Israel. (religion-online.org)