Sentences with phrase «accept human sin»

The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ had made it abundantly clear that God will not accept human sin as humanity's answer to the anguish that creation experiences on its way to God's ultimate goal.

Not exact matches

Sin is what seperates us from God as humans, and failure to accept Christ as Lord is what will seperate people from His family.

For it was felt that to accept that a human being had been conceived without sin was to deny that all redemption came through Christ.

This amounts to sin by imitation and does not accept that sin can be passed on, nor face up to the problem of the genesis of sin or the question of human responsibility.

It need not accept world suffering merely as evidence of the broken human condition, and therefore opt to minister only to the victims of sin without addressing sin's sources.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

For Kierkegaard there is no «solution» to this paradox, other than the greater paradox of the God - man, who, without ever making the leap into sin, became sin for us, i.e., accepted his human solidarity with us, so that in him we might be reconciled with God through the Atonement.

The initial sin of Adam and Eve was to attempt to become like God instead of accepting their inherent limitedness as humans.

How in this case man can be said to be free is one of the paradoxes which Niebuhr holds defies rational understanding.11 But if we accept the paradox, while we may say there is an ideal possibility that we could assert our human will to power in history without sinning and thus bring in the Kingdom of love, this is no actual possibility.

And all those people who had little choice and died horrible deaths in the Old Testament for their sin, well, you don't have to end up like that in hell for eternity if you just accept the free human sacrifice that God gave us through Jesus.

But it is, I have said, the chief instrumentality since it is the place where he is explicitly acknowledged as Lord, his purpose as sent from God recognized and accepted, even if not always (and this is our human sin) implemented in every respect.

God's one and only plan was the one we now live — Humans sin, we need to be redeemed, He gives us a choice — Accept forgiveness through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross or don't and burn in hell.

By accepting Jesus Christ (God) as the one and only God and confessing our sins as humans, we are saved.

What I wonder is whether you guys think homosexuality (and, by extension same - sex marriage) is a sin that Christians ought to sensitively help people resist (a la Galatians 6:1) or is homosexuality an innate human characteristic like being left - handed and therefore something we ought to accept as normal?

Lasch accepts the reality of human limits and of sin, and he sees in the unadorned and giddily optimistic story of progress the ever more destructive outcroppings of Pelagianism run amuck.

Another issue I have with all this is that even if someone is gay what affect does that have on your own personal life, it has nothing to do with you, just because you don't believe in it or don't accept it doesn't mean you can treat gay people wrongly (that's a sin also) they're not animals they are human beings..