Sentences with phrase «effects of sin only»

Bandaging the outward effects of sin only does so much, but true change comes from addressing the root of the problem.

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Redemption from sin and undoing the effects of the fall are only possible for man because human identity already «hinges» on Christ through the flesh.

While Satan's embrace of Jerusalem can only be consummated in death, that death is a final realization in experience of the self - annihilation of God, thereby effecting the forgiveness of sin by the reversal of all solitary selfhood.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

The absence of sanctifying grace in the new - born child is an effect of the first sin, for Adam, having received holiness and justice from God, lost it not only for himself but also for everybody else.

If scripture is not enough to convince you that patriarchy is a result of sin, you need only look at the world to observe its effects.

The effects of Original Sin apply to all, so we should not imagine that our particular cultural malaise stops at the door of the Church and is only to be found «out there».

«The flood is described in natural terms as the effects of sins (of violence in particular) with no divine act of intervention; only with the subsiding of the waters is God's activity stated explicitly» (Fretheim, God and World, 80).

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.