Sentences with phrase «god lets us off the hook»

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).

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I've heard it referred most often in the context of «God's strength is perfected in our weakness», or letting us off the hook of thinking we have to be in control of everything in our life.

And unlike you I will not let said «god» off the hook.

Sin - stained and deceived hearts are not so keen to let God «off the hook» so to speak for the perceived notion he is trying to exonerate himself in the process.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

Although this does not at all fit with either a clear Greek concept of a Supreme Being nor with a nursery need for security, it may be the terrible truth, one that lets God off the hook of our unforgiving resentments.

Why do we need to let God off the hook?

First, we must not be governed by our limited perception of him — supposing that we are qualified to judge him; secondly, we forgive him not because he is guilty, but because we choose to affirm him as he is revealed in the Bible; and thirdly, we must set him free — letting him totally off the hook — until the day arrives when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

But you need to let God totally off the hook for allowing what he did.

Couldn't God just have ignored our sins or «let us off the hook»?

No, God had something He wanted for Jonah, and he was not going to let Jonah get off the hook that easy.

We would never tolerate a leader of a country today committing genocide and infanticide for the reason that the people are «evil», so why do you let your God off the hook?

To blame God for peoples» abuse of free will is to let the perpetrators off the hook.

When Cardinal Pell interjected that the problem for Dawkins is that he only accepts sense experience as proof, the presenter let Dawkins off the hook and turned the question on the Cardinal, asking: «Why would God randomly decide to provide proof of his existence to a small group of Jews 2,000 years ago and not subsequently provide any proof after that?»