Not exact matches
On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind
of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus
came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the
sins and
guilt and blame
of the entire world upon Himself.
When faith understands itself as existing in opposition to the state
of sin, it must give itself both to a negation of law and guilt and to a continual process of abolishing the consciousness of sin: «Come, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
sin, it must give itself both to a negation
of law and
guilt and to a continual process
of abolishing the consciousness
of sin: «Come, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
sin: «
Come, O thou Lamb
of God, and take away the remembrance
of Sin» (Jerusalem 50:2
Sin» (Jerusalem 50:24).
They believe that justification (payment for
sin and removal
of guilt)
comes at conversion by way
of the Holy Spirit, in whom the believer is baptized.
To be sure, in one passage the penalties
of God are said to be graded to the degree
of guilt; (Luke 12:47 - 48) from another passage one may infer that after the «last farthing»
of penalty is paid the sinner may hope for escape; (Matthew 5:25 - 26) from another passage one may argue that since only one
sin can never be forgiven, «neither in this world, nor in that which is to
come,» (Matthew 12:32) there is the possibility
of pardon for all other
sins.
The latter choice doesn't really
come with as much baggage until you add in all the concepts
of sin and
guilt that religion tries to infect us with.
When reading about all
of the items the church believes is a
SIN I
came to the conclusion that most religions use
guilt to manipulate the masses and thus exert their power and influence over someone.
«One morning, being in deep distress, fearing every moment I should drop into hell, I was constrained to cry in earnest for mercy, and the Lord
came to my relief, and delivered my soul from the burden and
guilt of sin.
They told us that the righteousness that
comes by grace gives us «no consciousness
of sin,
guilt or condemnation.»
Then finally, the clear - ness
of morning before the sunrise, the New Testament in the midst
of the Old, the promise
of the
coming servant
of God, who takes upon himself the
guilt of His people, bears their grief and through his suffering atones for the
sin of man (Isaiah 53).
When he
comes, he will convict the world
of guilt in regard to
sin and righteousness and judgment.
Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world
of art dealers who profit off the
sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman - a woman whose portrait and fate
come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the
guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out
of the mess she has made
of her own life.