Sentences with phrase «by human sin»

In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood.

At the same time, in view of the damage and destruction wreaked by human sin, he bore the awful cost of restoring and reconciling all things in his own body and soul.

For the one who was destined as King of Creation from the first poising of matter can not be ultimately frustrated by human sin.

There is an infinite, qualitative difference between the Creator and his creatures and only God can re-establish a relationship that has been disrupted by human sin.

It could contain doctrines that were not inherently understandable (such as the doctrine of the trinity), or that seemed to be self - contradictory (such as the full humanity and deity of Jesus), or that were contradicted by other doctrines (as, for example, human freedom by divine predestination, or God's omnipotent goodness by human sin).

Human knowing had been skewed by human sin, though human beings had not been blinded by sin.

The second answer given to the questions mentioned above is that God is hidden from man by human sin.

I do, however, believe that just like the church, the received text is subject to corruption by human sin.

Not exact matches

Welcome to bible land, where love, sin, heaven, hell, the past, the future, all fall into this obscure, foggy area that is entirely influenced by human emotion, tradition, guesswork, and wishful thinking.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

God sacrificed his only son, the only innoce3nt human in history, he sufferd the shame of occupying a human body and then he lived his whole life without sin, and let himself be wrongly accused and executed that our sins may be traded and washed away by the blood of the lamb of God.

Sin was introduced into this world by humans.

Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the human rather than Divine action.

«The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4

It states that her «immunity from the effects of Original Sin» was «by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race».

Because she has chosen the supreme Good with a will untrammelled by sin, she is the freest of all human beings.

Similarly, the doctrine of Original Sin being passed on by physical generation, hence that we are all descended from the first humans who fell from grace, is indeed defined de Fide.

Christ's love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to God, or that you are loved by God.

'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»

Therefore it is not affected by the profound wounding of human nature caused by the sin of Adam which happened at the origins of our species.

The primary reason for this in Protestant theology is the conviction that human nature has been utterly corrupted by Original Sin.

On question: if sin was not imputed to people living during the time from Adam to Moses, why did God destroy the entire human race by a flood in Noah's day?

Despite all this the fact remains that our stock was damaged at the beginning of human history by a real sin, and the effects of this sin are passed on to us all.

He gives the salvation package — from sin and death and slavery to exaltation in the heavens (Ephesians 2:1 - 3, 6 - 7)-- freely, by His grace, without any human works, effort, or sacrifice involved.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

(Eph 2), and so the human nature of Christ can not be intrinsically wounded by Adam's sin as ours is.

Redemption is the healing of the damage caused to human nature by sin and the restoration of man's lost relationship with God.

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Your god as you describe it plainly would be an ASS HOLE, for threatening eternal torture for «sins» of a short mortal lifetime, and would be convicted of human rights abuse by any reasonable set of jurors.

They believed that Jesus had come as God in human form and that by his coming, and above all by his suffering, death, and resurrection, he had saved God's children from their unfortunate condition of sin and their resultant alienation from God.

The result of that decision has been explained by St. Thomas as a collective sin of «the whole human race in Adam, as one body of one man» (De Malo 4,1), following on St Paul's teaching that in Adam all die (1 Cor.

Their sin cut them off irrevocably from God and so God decided to repair the damage done by sending his Son to take that sin upon himself and so restore human beings to righteousness.

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.»

And human marriage is the living out of his plan: a lifelong bond between a man and a woman: the one blessing «not forfeited by Original Sin, or washed away in the flood».

The terrible personal cost is not something demanded by the Father; it is the consequence of what sin has done to human beings in destroying the image and glory of God within our nature.

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

Thus the Incarnation is placed by Scotus in the context of creation and not of human sin.

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

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.

and Christs prayer «forgive them, they know not what they are doing», is God's prayer, in human essence, at the time where he was murdered by our sin.

The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to speak of sex, as of every aspect of human life, in a double way, from the standpoint of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

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.

Until the gospel actually enters the historical situation of a certain person, a non-Christian religion contains not only elements of a natural knowledge of God mixed with depravation caused by original sin and human elements, but also supernatural elements of grace.

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.

In as much as Alpha even mentions our human nature the emphasis is the protestant one upon the image of God being «almost eradicated by sin».

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

The article is describing how people are finally waking up and realizing that yes natural disasters MIGHT be caused by a celestial being but that again does not mean in ANY way that it is because the human race has sinned or committed some specific act that warrented a natural disaster as punishment.

What SINS were COMMITTED by EVERY child, baby, fetus and human embryo that justified torturously KILLING them?

Luther's teaching that every human being at every moment of life stands absolutely coram deo» before God, confronted face - to - face by God» led him to confront the major misunderstanding in the church of his day that grace and forgiveness of sins could be bought and sold like wares in the market.