Sentences with phrase «against human sin»

And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own wrath and anger against human sin.

Not exact matches

And humans are the ones who sin against God and the ones God came to earth to save.

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

god hates you, you will all die in the name of god, you will be punished for all your moronic sins against the human race.

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

He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

Adam's sin against God lost for himself and for his descendants the union with God that had been granted to him (Ibid., pp.139 - 140) and that profoundly affected their human nature as well.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

An» «angry Father» [contemplates] the disobedience of man in human sin, decrees to condemn [us] to eternal death... Against which sentence of divine justice the Son interposes Himself... so that in His total sacrifice «the Father is appeased».»

Those who rejoice in Niebuhr's fulminations against Stalinism, or Russian betrayals of human dignity, usually hear him with only one ear, and fail to listen with equal seriousness to his insistent reminder that the sins we see so clearly in others are likely to be the sins we most subtly replicate in ourselves.

They have not lifted human quality primarily by thundering against sin; they have lifted it by heightening the positive conception of life's dignity and value.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

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 sin doesn't stand a chance against it.

Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?

in a position to judge another human's soul but to me the scripture tells me that I can not sin in a way that is against the Holy Spirit that fills my heart.

Some would add also that sin roots in anxiety and the frustration of human finitude as the ego attempts to rebel against the limits set by our existence.2 Redemption is granted when one becomes aware of his presumption and self - righteousness, repents in humility and turns to Christ in faith.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

Obviously, this added a degree of perniciousness: You not only have injured a fellow human being with your sin, but you have also transgressed against God Almighty.

It is a self - protective device of the human spirit; but when it becomes an invitation to use our freedom against the risk of becoming it is temptation to sin.

Romans 1:26 - 27 tells us that humans have a sinful nature, and therefore commit sins against God.

Really, it's anyone who believes that homosexuality is a sin, and that somehow God, infinite and eternal creator and sustainer of the very Universe, is «against» a tiny human behavior that harms no one.

Human sin is the reason for every war, murder, racism, hate, terrorism, rape and every type of offense against another human bHuman sin is the reason for every war, murder, racism, hate, terrorism, rape and every type of offense against another human bhuman being.

The new creature rebelling against the Creator brought death into human experience, since «the wages of sin is death» (Rom.

Fourth, the prophets saw with utter clarity the persistent fact of sin, and saw it not as maladjustment or even as failure to «hit the mark» of some objective human standard, but as sin against God.

Because of this offense against the glory of God, humans are alienated from their Creator and deserve his just condemnation for their sins.

On the one hand, I've heard that evil exists because of human choice and that suffering is the result of rebellion against God, but on the other, I've been told that fallen humans have no choice but to sin because it is inherent to their nature, and God sovereignly allows suffering to continue.

Though it is popular to say that God can do whatever He wants, God can not do what is logically impossible (such as make a round square), do anything that violates His own nature (such a sin), or do anything that goes against something He has already decided and determined (such as give humans free will).

All that Catholics need believe is that Man (as in full human beings with a soul) were a special creation of God and that at some point the first Man and Woman sinned against God.

[3] Because he was immune from sin, we might think that there would be a barrier set up against the horror of evil, but for him there were no human distractions.

Against all the rationalization of the Southern clergymen they argued that buying and selling human beings was a sin againAgainst all the rationalization of the Southern clergymen they argued that buying and selling human beings was a sin againstagainst God.

Still, religio - cultural realities are subjugated by the powers that be; and theologically speaking, this is a result of original sin, the human rebellion against God which betrays the true religious - cultural life.

This means that God takes sin seriously, and such condemnation may fall upon us, even in a professed state of righteousness, for our injustice, our indifference to human needs, or any other sin against the love commandment.

During the Days of Awe before Yom Kippur, Jews are reminded that God can forgive those sins that we commit against him, but that we must seek forgiveness from our human neighbors for the violations we enact against them.

I don't think God is guilty of the sin of failing to prevent humans from committing evil against each other.

This specialism may help to explain the fervour of his preaching against the sin of anthropomorphism — attributing human qualities to other animals.

Similar experiments were performed demonstrating that the purified human antibodies also protected immunosuppressed hamsters against lethal disease caused by Sin Nombre virus.

And all they see is a pessimistic future because humans are sinning against Earth's plants and animals, and humans are the cause of a coming climate catastrophe.

Evidently his mortal sin against the Climate Cult was pointing out that human - caused climate change is not inflicting greater economic damage due to extreme weather, an empirical truth that cuts against one of the most sacred dogmas of politicized science.

But as environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel argues in his landmark paper, «The Liberation of the Environment,» human beings have been committing sins against the environment for thousands of years.

It goes against human dignity and if allowed would open doors for sins that would develop in chaos and disruption in society.