Sentences with phrase «calling sin»

oh is that what we're calling sin these days?

Nowadays, however, we are reluctant to take the step from calling an action morally wrong to calling it a sin.1 Why is this?

Calling sin what it is, sin, is not hate.

I know that most pastors never say anything like this, and maybe need to be more bold about calling sin for what it is.

From Eric: In terms of helping an alcoholic to recover, how important do you think it is to call alcoholism a disease versus calling it a sin?

«The complication comes when I feel what you're calling a sin is part of me... It doesn't work where people feel their behaviour is bound up with who they are» Nick says.

Is this what you consider calling it sin?

Calling a sin a sin is one thing, but when you cherry pick «the rules» to fit your view, then it is no wonder people walk away from the church.

Calling it sin is meaningless because it adds nothing to the understanding.

If you agree with what God calls sin, then you need only look at your own thoughts and conduct to know that you don't measure up to his standard, whether you were born with original sin or not.

There is that one sin, that if I call it sin, that turns on the furry of some.

«My first question to him or her will be: «Are you prepared to openly to declare as sin what God calls sin and to summon all people to repentance and to do so publicly?»

Rector William Taylor told his congregation his first question to the next Bishop of London, who is yet to be named, would be whether he's willing «declare as sin what God calls sin».

yet, as i have said before and will say again, i think where we differ is what we call a sin.

The Bible calls it sin, and it matters not how many Christians you talk to at Art Festivals who may claim it is not sin.

but — as with the woman caught in adultery in John 8 — after he has run off all hypocritical accusers, he still calls sin what it is.

Anything against this ultimate morality is what we call sin.

ragan You claim to «know» you have a disease called sin... absurd.

Our culture accepts these actions, but Christians continue to resist them because we believe the Bible calls them sin.

abortion is no where mentioned in the bible nor is it called a sin.

I believe in intelligent design but not that he will die and come back to save from our so called sins is the term I think is used.

It does not matter if people are in a committed relationship, the Bible still calls it a sin.

When we look at humanity we see people committing evil, which we call sin.

I am one of those Christians who agrees with the theologians who have called it sin.

We all have a problem, it is called sin.

Pride, wrath, lust, greed, envy, sloth, and yes even gluttony are called sins.

As far as abortion goes, the Bible NEVER mentions it by name and so never even calls it a sin or abomination.

«Freedom of choice», says Kirill, «should be used for attaining freedom from sin... The Church openly calls sin by its name and devotes its efforts to saving man» (pp 84, 11).

But, both Old and New Testaments call it sin.

Christians might be better served looking to Christ for an example and examining their own lives for what their faith calls sin, rather than wasting time chasing the sin of others, even if only in prayer.

As God is the sustainer of creation, when He is pushed away, creation starts to break down; this process and the particular acts involved with it are called sin.

Whatever behaviors we think the Bible calls sin does not mean focusing on one group of people and what we suppose their sin to be and ignoring our own sins.

Everything that happened, including their sufferings and some things that we should call their sins, they attributed to God's hand.

But if we don't want to call it sin, then we will begin dismantling the biblical word (should God really have said?)

While the Bible can be misused by saying «homosexuality is not called a sin».

Exactly, I think that the chance live exists elsewhere in the universe is near 100 %, and that the chance of me living forever if I believe in Jesus and repent of my so called sins is exactly 0 %.

This is called sin, and our sins have separated us from God.

Q: What does the Church call Sin?

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.

The lives of most men, being determined by a dialectic of indifference, are so remote from the good (faith) that they are almost too spiritless to be called sin, yes, almost too spiritless to be called despair.

It is what scripture calls sin.

But then on the other hand how on earth can one expect to find an essential consciousness of sin (and after all that is what Christianity wants) in a life which is so retarded by triviality, by a chattering imitation of «the others,» that one hardly can call it sin, that it is too spiritless to be so called, and fit only, as the Scripture says, to be «spewed out»?

I'm not soft - selling what the Bible says (its pretty clear what is calls sin)-- but I have plenty of sin myself.

This rupture with God is called sin.

It's called sin, look it up and study it out (II Timothy 2:15) or get mad and justify — it's our individual choice.

I know you vehemently disagree but according to the Bible God calls it a sin.

Modern psychology and psychotherapy have done much to soften the sting of what formerly without qualification was called sin.

The Arabic moon - god was called Sin.

He does call sin SIN and He does hate it.

but I continue to strive to live to be Christ like and to avoid being in the midst of what God calls sin!