I don't consider my self better then other sinners but the church needs to rtake responsiblity
for its failing not make excuses its the organization I have a problem with not the faith.
There is the moralistic view, already outlined, which contends that addicts deserve punishment
for failing to live up to community standards.
In l978 Massachusetts sued CBN
for failing to disclose its finances in accordance with state law.
Having only just arrived at the World Meeting of Families, here we were at Panera, already impatient with our children, overwhelmed by the crowds, and angry with
ourselves for failing to live up to the ideal of Catholic family life.
In fact, Saul is disciplined BY God
for FAILING to take out the people.
At the very end of the post there is a tiny note stating that he should be investigated
for failing to report to police his father's sexual abuse of children.
He wanted to avoid getting killed
for failing in his duties!
Who better to get the top prize
for failing to be equipped for basic survival.
I mean, if you «knew» there was a God who saved people as surely as you know there is a fire department in your area that does the same wouldn't you question either of
them for failing to respond to your emergency?
But while praising the work conservatives have done in identifying the results of family decline, they fault politicians like Ronald Reagan, DanQuayle and Newt Gingrich
for failing to acknowledge the family - destroying properties of the market.
Ogden, Cobb, and Griffin all at least implicitly criticize many of the «liberation theologians»
for failing to do this (FF 34, PTT 95).
Finally, it is challenging — the challenge of the Catholic writer in our times, perhaps — to marry a joyful Christian witness with a rigorous engagement with intra-Christian controversy, and I accept John Connelly's rebuke
for failing at that challenge.
I certainly agree that nothing is more irritating to an author than to be judged
for failing to do what he never planned to do.
If God is the one who imparts faith to the unbeliever, then the responsibility to believe lies not with man but with God, and therefore, God can have no basis on which to judge people
for failing to believe.
But under the law proposed by Shatter, priests could be prosecuted
for failing to tell the police about crimes disclosed in the confession box.
But here is what is also true: That religious freedom is rightly singled out by the bishops at Vatican II is not a reason
for failing to protect the rights of conscience for the non-religious.
While Thomas had strongly advocated and supported certain New Deal legislation, such as Social Security, he attacked the New Deal
for failing to help America's most economically depressed people: sharecroppers.
In such a short book, Merkle can not be faulted
for failing to include all the sources of Heschel's life and work, but apart from rabbinic tradition» the legal foundation and theological speculation that shaped and shapes Jewish life» he can not be understood.
It ruled that officers, directors and auditors of publicly traded companies must tale new responsibility for the accuracy of the companies» financial reports and face stiff penalties
for failing to do so.
In this case, while we are rightly blamed
for failing to be saved, we can take no credit for our salvation.
After he had read clearly from the Law and the Levites had helped instruct the people in it, Nehemiah, together with Ezra and the Levites, had to correct the people
for failing to celebrate their God:
You lose and can be made a slave in the open market or executed
for failing to follow the religious laws of all the other religions, which are all false religions.
• PLIVA vs. Mensing: Ruled that makers of generic drugs can not be sued
for failing to warn patients of new dangers or side effects.
I believe that YHWH is a just deity and a just deity would never set up an unwinnable scenario and then punish the test subject
for failing a rigged game.
One can hardly blame the FBI
for failing to take Hasan's religion seriously.
Some German churches remained faithful even when the Nazi regime tried to dismantle
them for failing to subscribe to their hateful, bastardized version of Christian teachings.
Though both the United Nations and India have celebrated fifty years, they have been criticized
for failing to translate the stated mandate for the disadvantaged millions.
Griefs anger may first appear as only a means of placing blame — on the doctor for a misdiagnosis, on the minister for not saying enough at the funeral, on parents and friends
for failing to understand.
And I hope that I'm not coming across as heartless but I would also like to add that people in Jason's shoes as tragic as it is will not be able to blame his father or anyone else for that matter
for failing to trust Christ when he stands before the judgement bar.
In 1942, convinced that the reports of the «final solution» were accurate, ecumenical organizations (including the Federal Council of Churches in New York) strongly condemned their governments
for failing to take in more refugees.
And while the papal nuncio in Paris, Monsignor Roncalli — later to become Pope John XXIII — aided René Cassin in drafting the declaration, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano attacked
it for failing to recognize the sovereignty of God.
Frustrated wings of both parties blame cowardly political leadership
for failing to accomplish the impossible.
Gary McFarlane and Lillian Ladele would probably have laughed ten years ago at the idea that they might lose their job
for failing to cooperate in supporting homosexual relationships.
It is no use blaming people
for failing to reach moral standards when many of them scarcely possess any definite standards at all.
This is carried out by Elihu, a younger man who first vents his exasperation at the three friends
for failing to properly answer Job, and then condemns Job for justifying himself instead of God.
The moral law also was fulfilled by Jesus (he died in my place
for failing the moral law), but we Christians now want to live in light of the purpose for which God made us.
Mark now tells of the healing of a blind man at Bethsaida (8:22 - 26), one of the cities denounced by Jesus
for failing to repent in spite of the mighty works done in them (Mt 11:21; Lk 10:13).
(CNN)- Catholic bishops «will be held accountable»
for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis said Monday, his strongest acknowledgment yet of what abuse victims have been saying for decades: that the cover - ups have often been as bad as the crimes.
Lord Carlile criticised the Church
for failing to act promptly in 1995, but noted there had been «significant changes in procedure» in the last two decades.
Wright criticizes Reformers
for failing to stress «the great narrative of God, Israel, Jesus, and the world, coming forward into our own day and looking ahead to the eventual renewal of all things» so that their readings of the gospels «show little awareness of them as anything other than repositories of dominical teaching, concluding with the saving events of Good Friday and Easter but without integrating those events into the Kingdom - proclamation that preceded them.»
Pell is, in truth, on trial
for failing to take sufficient interest — for lacking empathy.
How often have you chided Tony Jones
for failing to extend grace to others with whom he profoundly disagrees or finds himself in conflict with?
When the rest of the world had given up on Jesus
for failing to look like the liberator they expected, the women stuck around.
Retail stores, websites and even coffee chains become the subject of boycotts, viral video campaigns and, yes, even «naughty lists,»
for failing...
But the inquiry was widely criticised
for failing to investigate the victim's claims or seek witnesses who had known or worked for Bishop Bell during his tenure as Bishop of Chichester between 1929 and 1958.
Bob Jones University said it was sorry
for failing sex abuse victims.
By tracing the disappointment back to its source, you can begin to acknowledge your expectations and then openly discuss them rather than simply blaming your spouse
for failing to meet those needs.
For Jews who know from the scriptures who God is, therefore, there can be no excuse
for failing to recognize his presence in the deeds and person of Jesus.
(Some gays ask why so many Christians ignore Ezekiel 16:49, which says Sodom was destroyed for its «pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease» and
for failing to care for the poor and needy.
Even though our own DIE - HARD Islamic supporter CNN's Mr.FAREED ZAKARIA sings never ending praises of the Arab Spring, and the economic miracles of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, NOT to talk of the rich MErn Sheikhdoms (while taunting the west
for their failing economies!!!)