Sentences with phrase «absolve god»

So yes, while I get the whole thing with mistranslations, transliteration, etc. as an excuse for the current state of the Bible, it still does not absolve this god from the responsibility to give clear and understandable instructions to his flock.

why is that believers can ALWAYS absolve god from any bad things associated with the Church?

Because that's the only thing that absolves your god from being the cause of this death.

Oord also carries through consistently on the critical necessity of absolving God of any and all residual power that is not the power present in divine love.

Not exact matches

In the case of the former God can not be all powerful and in case of the latter our emotional makeup is beyond our control thereby absolving us of all responsibility.

The answer to this question is that you can not do anything, but God can absolve you of your misdeeds and the way He does that is through His son Jesus Christ.

Assuming we're all taking about the same sin (Adam and Eve), in their own stories the entire population was wiped off the face of the Earth once (except for Noah's family, who apparently «God» had forgiven for the sin or he wouldn't have saved him); and then absolved of all Old Testament sins by «God» letting his own son (or himself if you think that way) get tortured and killed.

That is why I believe that the Christian world view that Jesus died to absolve us of our sins is the only way to rationalize imperfect people interacting with a perfect God (or going into a perfect Heaven).

If Hitler absolved himself and genuinely turned to god seconds before death, then hitler is is heaven.

Moreover, a man can never absolve himself and decide with certainty whether his daily sins which he must acknowledge do not hide a radical No to God, even though he hopes that they do not exclude him from the kingdom of God.

Hence it does not mean that man absolves himself, but that he accepts in hope God's merciful judgment.

They more or less define Jesus the same way Christians do - he is a wholly divine while simultaneously wholly mortal, the human One True Prophet and only True son of God, who absolves the work of all previous prophets, and is the personal savior of mankind.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

«God» absolves pope Ratzinger for being too old and senile to run «His» corporation, but «He» is nevertheless powerless to demand a recall vote (since after all, the pope is an elected position... pure politics).

To be redeemed is not merely to be absolved of guilt before God, it is also to live in Christ, to be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, to be in Him a new creature, to live in the Spirit.

And therefore the fifth and thank God the last Opening of the Book is at hand: «Absolve me from things of pomp and state, For the earth in its all is my land, And all mankind my countrymen.»

The omnipotent God visits the contrite through the grace of compunction, and the pastor declares the truly penitent absolved as a representative pastoral act.

The Superior may commit a fault in commanding you to do this thing or that, but you are certain that you commit no fault so long as you obey, because God will only ask you if you have duly performed what orders you received, and if you can furnish a clear account in that respect, you are absolved entirely.

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

It is as if God in Christ were preaching, celebrating the sacraments, absolving and declaring forgiveness, visiting those who need help, and everything else that is proper to the ministerial task.

This fundie had an affair a few years back, but he has been absolved of that, in the eyes of god, so he is back in the in crowd.

This facade of Christianity gave a veneer of legitimacy to his hatred and allowed him to focus Germany's discontent on a scapegoat while simultaenously absolving the citizenry of guilt by letting them rationalize it as God's will: «My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.

It allows us to entertain what I have called «impure «images of God without fear that we are thereby absolving ourselves of rationality.

He would confess his sins, be absolved by a priest and within moments he was grumbling against God again in his thoughts, and despairing.

admittedly i'm not a religious scholar but it just seems to me like god gets credit for everything good and absolved of blame for everything bad.

Treat it like any other tantrum, and absolve yourself of the guilt I know you're feeling because its breastfeeding and ahhhh mah god, there's so much emotional baggage and Interwebs judgment.

All they can do is encourage the person to turn themselves in and give their life to God who will absolve them of their sins (cough cough).