Sentences with phrase «by our sin nature»

I've often been told that the reason I have a problem with the idea of people suffering eternally without the chance to be saved is because my sense of justice has been perverted by my sin nature, that it only seems unfair to me because «God's ways are higher than our ways.»

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.

Not exact matches

While it would have been impossible for the founders of United Stationers to foresee the digital revolution, by including the nature of the business in the name they were committing one of Watkins» seven deadly sins — restricting the opportunity for future diversification.

They are by nature people who are going to want to sin all their lives.

If, as our current philosopher - pope reminds us, sin flows from a failure to gratefully acknowledge and do the duties that flow from our deeply relational being, then Mattie was, in a way, sort of a sinner by nature (as are we all, due to original sin), who added to her natural brokenness through her proud willfulness.

Now that I have put to death my old sin nature, by the grace of God, I will become more Ch - r - i - st like in my ways and in my whole being.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

God knows that we are slaves of the original sin by nature.

God placed temptation in the direct path of his two naïve children and allowed them to be tempted by the serpent (Genesis 3: 1 - 7), resulting in a single mistake that would contaminate hundreds of billions with a sin nature worthy of eternal torture?

The sin of Adam modified this situation only to the extent that, instead of all our wants being automatically answered by nature, we were condemned to «work,» to toil and pain, in order to satisfy them.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

'' 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.»

3:9 ESV If we are born of God, our nature no longer requires that we be overpowered by sin.

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.

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.

By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient sacrifice for the sin nature inherent in all men, as well as for all their sinful behavior in the future.

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.»

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.

In presenting this point of view I am not discussing the untenable position of biblical literalism which holds that man's nature is corrupted by the sin of a generic ancestor, Adam.

If women are capable of passing along the sin nature, then Jesus was a sinner and God got corrupted by His own creation!

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

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».

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.

@HAVE MUD WILL TRAVEL «If women are capable of passing along the sin nature, then Jesus was a sinner and God got corrupted by His own creation!»

It is interesting to note in this respect that in Whitehead's judgment the Jews «conceived one of the most immoral Gods ever imagined» and that he endorses Thomas Hardy's remark in Tess of the D'Urbervilles «But although to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature.

The new man is a Christian born again -LCB- indwelt by the Holy Spirit (after believing in Christ as his savior) and should be walking in / after the Spirit -RCB-; that is, the new man has a good nature, evil / sin nature and the indwelling Holy Spirit and should be willingly walking in / after the Spirit (Eph.

There is no lust in christ but just an infinite source of the love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness of our present being.God designed woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chrisin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chrisin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chrisin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chriSin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of chrisin having tasted love of christ.

This being can not be bound by sin, karma, and death and essentially participates in the nature of God.

You tell a true brother that he is deceived for believing that the resurrection power of Yahshua is strong enough to cause him to die to all sin, becoming a mature man, giving Yahshua a place to live in the earth in him by His Spirit, and so have a place in the earth to live out His nature, and character, to His glory, and the glory of the Father.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

6) I have already given several verses showing the sin - bearing nature of Jesus» cross, I just want to point out again Romans 3:25 & 26: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood — to be received by faith.

In yesterday's post we saw that Scripture and theology seems to indicate that in some way humans were enabled by God to guide and control natural forces, but when we sinned, we lost this ability, and nature spun out of control.

My sins just prove who and what I am by nature.

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.

What emerged was a deistic philosophy in which the ideas of sin and God receded in favor of new social control mechanisms provided by law and legitimated by conceptions of the lawfulness of nature.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

Therefore one can not say that human nature has been fundamentally affected by sin or transformed into evil.

The other extreme is represented by students who like to start with a given, «intuited,» or deduced concept of, for example, the nature of prayer and sacrifice or of sin and grace.

A certain man, called Adam, degenerated voluntarily by abandoning the source of life and we are his descendants, that means we have inherited his degenerated nature, which does works of death, called sins.

And though the second man's eyes have been opened to the fleeting nature of the pleasures of sin, and he has taken steps to create new, real, lasting life for himself, we see in his story the destructive power of past sins to reach into a man's future, destroy any goodness it finds there, and drag him back by his own lusts.

this applied not only when he was originally created by God pure and holy and without sin, but it also applies to the way we have that nature now after the fall.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

It shows us a radically transformed human nature, no longer defined by the twin evils of sin and death.

I think the theme of the album is death — the slow death of our old selves and agendas, expectations and sin natures, followed by the new resurrection life that comes with following Christ to the cross.

This passage contains the combination of Jesus» nature (as sinless) and role (as sacrifice) that is central to the traditional idea of Jesus as Savior: he was a person without sin, and by offering himself up in our place as a perfect sacrifice he has secured salvation for those who join themselves to him by faith.