And yet, without Christ,
the divine gift of freedom is misused to rebel against God and reject his law.
Not exact matches
Persons are dignified because God's personhood dwells within them, and persons are free because they participate in the
gift of divine freedom.
It is from
divine freedom that the
gifts of grace come, not from claims
of obligation or ownership laid on God.
In fact, based on His
divine foreknowledge and His experience with the rebellion
of the angels, God knew that His
gift of freedom to humanity would likely result in our rebellion as well.
The shame
of nakedness shows that man loses the
freedom of the «
gift» and purity
of heart and so it is hard to see the body as the revelation
of the person and
of the
divine gift.