Sentences with phrase «about human sin»

If only he could let go of his self - acknowledged (and self - induced) pessimism and embrace the truth about human sin.

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7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

People do not care enough about human suffering to turn from their rebellion against God and from their sins and turn back to God.

From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish human decisions and the consequences of sin.

And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic, evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!»

This is because human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our sins) is not just about God «turning a blind eye» to our rejection of him.

This is because human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our sins) is not just about God «turning a blind...

It is the discipline of honesty about the human plight — sin, evil, injustice, unfulfilled hope, unanswered questions.

You are responding to a mainstream, current, Christian theology that defines the world as being about God and sin — and humans.

When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger emphasis on the fact of the true human nature of Christ.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

The proliferation of religion or religious denomination is brought about the discontent on all religion or religious denimination because it is being run by humans capable of sins.

More will be said about God's answer to human lovelessness in later chapters, particularly the one that deals with our salvation from sin.

The verse is not talking about just normal human fleshly sin, but decidedly day after day purposeful rebellious sin.

On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.

Even religions which teach that humans are basically good still recognize that we occassionally sin, and something must be done about this sin.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

And yet even in those early, dark hours of her life, Penny's presence — her sweet face and tiny hands and warm body — knocked against my grid, jostled my presuppositions about human wholeness and human sin.

Human beings all suffer temptation; all sin; all lie about it.

Even though Heidegger talks about such human phenomena as «fallenness» (which sounds remarkably like a Christian conception of sin), he repeatedly emphasizes that his account is scientific, not religious.

Since the doctrine of sin is the only element known by some of his critics, a common conclusion is that Niebuhr was too pessimistic about human nature, that he saw only man's sin, and that he offered no proximate or ultimate hope.

But truth about God's goodness and power is revealed everywhere in the natural setting of human life, and this knowledge is not wholly perverted by sin.

When we consider some of the factors that make it difficult to believe in progress in this third sense, it becomes possible to see how they are related to Christian teaching about sin and especially to one element in that teaching: the recognition that the deepest roots of sin are spiritual, that it is on the higher levels of human development that the most destructive perversions of human life appear.

For Tanner, what is decisive about Jesus is that, through the Word taking on human nature in the Incarnation, humanity is itself purified from sin» and given what, by nature, is beyond it: participation in the life of God.

I believe sin originates, not in any fact about objects and their locations, but within the human heart (and ONLY within the human heart).

But the biblical picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and God casts them out of the Garden; Abraham argues with God about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction, God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.

The Cross» where the incarnate Word takes on human sin in its depth and purifies it» is about overcoming and even sanctifying death.

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

Finally, Anselm's thought about the atonement, so centered in an awe - full sense of human sin, always left unanswered the question: If the human creature is subject to eternal damnation for having eaten of one miserable apple, how much more unforgivable is the murder of God's son?

Pull out from under democratic principles the beliefs of Judaism and Christianity about the transcendent dignity of the person and the human propensity to sin, and the existing edifice of democratic thought is exposed to radical doubt.

And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this I'm hearing about a human sacrifice for your sins!?

What he says about the forms of human despair and the sickness of the spirit is not intended as objective description of sin.

Not that John was indifferent to or naïve about the reality of sin, nor that we would want to deny that human sin is a factor in the apparent paradox he presents.

That mankind has been so slow about it is due in part to human sin, in part to the immense complexities of the international situation.

im sure many do but i just wish EVERYBODY here could know the true Jesus... I wish I could know Him better... it hurts a little at first... to know how short of His love we have fallen... but what is so awesome about him is that his atonement was so total that it can even atone for the hateful comments that have been posted here... and whats even MORE amazing is that His atonement can atone for MY sins... if we could just see one glimpse of his heart we would all lay down all of this human «intelligence» and say... I'm so sorry... please show me the right way.

It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.

It is easier for human sin to take the form of a violent shot when you can walk through my neighborhood of North Lawndale on the Westside of Chicago and buy a gun in about 15 minutes.

Interestingly, there seems to be a theme here... Most of the top posts are about C. S. Lewis, Human Trafficking, and the Unpardonable Sin.

Out of this came a lot of debate about original sin, the evil of human nature, and all the mental gymnastics to sustain that stuff.

Linking a strange story in Genesis about «sons of God» who lust after «daughters of men» to the story of the angels who visit Abraham's nephew Lot, New Testament writers concluded that the mingling of human and divine flesh is an intolerable sin.

Granted, there will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing ingenuity of human sin, and creating a painful legacy of injury and evil.

Peter said, «So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.»

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, the drama series «Westworld» is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

With The Human Contract, Pinkett Smith seemingly attempted to make a movie about everything: sex, class, ambition, conformity, philosophy, business, family, marriage, and the way sins ricochet through generations.

Both sides are making an argument about «sin,» about the behaviors humans should avoid.

This can mean anything from discussing Biblical passages about transformation and redemption to discussing Christian values, such as defining what is right or wrong about a particular situation and how the Christian concept of sin plays a role in relationships and human behavior.

According to a recent survey by Robert Half International, the top professional «technology etiquette sins» reported by human resource managers are being inconsiderate to others by taking calls anytime on a smartphone, venting on bad things about the workplace on social networking sites, using instant - messaging shorthand, and constantly pestering others using technology.