Sentences with phrase «bore upon himself the sins»

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The sinless Jesus bore our sins upon him on the cross.

This means they can do all those things that were banned under the Mosaic law because Jesus washes their sins away, except now they make up new sins that don't get wahsed away as easy like being born gay and acting upon it.

Christ is special because he was born to take upon his being the sins of those who were and then were also and of times yet to come!

Yet God covers our actions in His own blood, so that every time God looks like a lying, murderous, baby - killing, woman - raping bastard, it is because God has taken the burden of human sin upon His shoulders, and borne it away upon His body into death.

He simply took the sins of the world upon Himself so that He could conquer over sin, death, and the devil by bearing them all into the grave.

He founded his plan «before the foundation of the world» (Ephesians 1:4, & cf, Jn 1, Philippians 2) upon Lord Jesus, «the first born of creation» (Colossians 1), born from Mary conceived without sin.

God answered this vital question by sending His Son, Jesus, as the fulfillment of the most violent religious writings, to show us that He had nothing to do with the violence, but was instead dying along with us in the midst of the violence, taking our sin and suffering upon Himself, bearing our guilt and shame in His own being, all for the sake of those He loved.

Is it not normal, then, that he should be smitten and that he should bear upon himself this uncleanness, the mark of his sin, the sign of his violence?

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

Though He may discipline you, He does not judge you, for the true penalty for sin has been born by Jesus upon the cross.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God's enemies.

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

He died a criminal's death because He went there willingly, as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, to take our sins upon Himself and bear them into death.

But the only reason people looked upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look upon Jesus in that way now), is because Jesus had incarnated Himself among men and had taken the sin of the world upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).

Some to judge would carry with them tendency to focus upon the hate love bears (i.e., hatred of sin, injustice, evil...).

Could it be, for example, that a kairos for suffering and hope does not preclude theological attention to other clarnant issues, not only as they bear upon this one, but also in their own right - sin as how we all stand accountable before God, death as our common mortality, error as our common lot - and what the Good News says about all these things, i.e., forgiveness, resurrection, revelation?

Tertullian blamed women for the fall of humanity, and said that the curse of Eve is born upon every woman, so every woman bears responsibility for the sins and destruction and the pains of humanity.

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).

Christ is special because he was born to take upon his being the sins of those who were once and then were also and of times yet to come!

In other words, it is a governing rule that just as Jesus took the sin of the world upon Himself so that He might bear the sin and shame for all, so also God did this in the Old Testament by taking the blame for the sinful actions and behaviors of the people who lived during that time.

Are you saying that Christians, who believe that Jesus was born of a virgin mother, turned water into wine, multiplied a few fishes to feed thousands, brought forth Lazarus from the tomb, walked on water, commanded the sea, took upon himself the punishment for the sins of all mankind, was crucified yet overcame death three days later to walk among his disciples showing them His resurrected body, and yet Christians can not accept that God has worked wonders in our day by calling latter - day prophets who testify of the reality of Jesus?

Sure, you can be gay, but it's considered a sin and a gay persons cross to bear and should not be acted upon.

My short answer to this question is that, whenever we come upon portraits of God that, to one degree or another, fall beneath the beautiful, non-violent portrait we are given in the crucified Christ, we should assume that the revelatory content of these portraits is, to this degree, not found on the surface of the portrait itself, but in what faith can discern happening beneath the surface as it beholds God stooping to bear the sin if his people.

It is, if you like, if you can bear for a moment the heavy cross of my Catholic boyhood, the consequence of Lucifer's fall, Adam's sin, that the sins of any father are visited upon his children.»