Sentences with phrase «for sinful human»

Not exact matches

Graber is passionately concerned with the nature of intelligence and the human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Fairy tales without consequence also lose the potential for metaphor — in interpretation, werewolves» involuntary transformations could symbolize countless human realities, from mental and physical illness to fear of our own sinful natures.

† God brought the Law before to show human how sinful and short of Glory he / she is and that he / she needs God for redemption, hence, it was the shadow of Christ to come.

Only religion presumes to label human characteristics as «sinful», making it impossible for a bible botherer to ever feel «good enough», much less worthy of love and respect.

Gay people commit suicide because their sinful lifestyle is too much for any human being.

First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing good for God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in God's good graces.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

However, I DO despise sinful human existence, for it is evil.

It shows likewise how human beings, weak and fallible and often sinful — pretty poor material at times, it seems — could persist in the quest for God and goodness.

The monastic policies that, for reasons of traditional obedience, hinder the human maturation and Christian growth of their members are sinful.

It also helps us understand that on the cross, Jesus understood the feeling of being a sinful human being, and it is for this reason that we can trust His promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb 13:5).

Judas is not the alter ego of Jesus because that would make Jesus a sinful human being and unfit to be the perfect atonement to God for our sin.

Yet, says Moltmann, in this surrender of their mutual identity as Father and Son for the sake of sinful human beings, Jesus and the Father experience a new unity with one another in the Spirit.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and womFor this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and womfor the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

I have elsewhere represented the resurrection of Christ as his assimilation into the consequent nature of God, in view of his entire obedience to and fulfillment of God's ideal aim for his life, without the extensive negative prehension which must accompany the objective immortalizing in God of «sinful» human lives (RVA 214).

No, what seems most likely in light of other uses of anathema in the Bible (See my Gospel Dictionary Course for explanation of these texts) is that certain Corinthian teachers were saying (while supposedly under the influence of the Holy Spirit) that the reason Jesus died is because He was suffering the consequences for sin, or for living in a sinful, human body.

Yet some degree of justice remains possible, so God allows the self - regarding acts of sinful human beings to bring the State into existence because its institutions — especially those of private property, marriage and slavery — are also a remedy for sin.

«Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God» — Barack Hussein Obama

Of course, for Biblical authors also human sexuality is one of the areas of life that should be in the service of God, and, to be sure, our failure to respond to this call is sinful.

Or the portrayal of the human condition as sinful and the potential for transformation because of God's grace in Romans 1 - 3.

``... God takes the blame for the sinful actions of human beings, and even inspires people to write that He told them to do these things when He really did not...»

Though I have said that God takes the blame for the sinful actions of human beings, and even inspires people to write that He told them to do these things when He really did not, this guiding principle does not explain every evil situation that takes place in the Old Testament, or in the rest of history.

By an arrangement of the Creator, Jesus was permitted to offer his perfect human life as a sacrifice, a ransom, to repurchase a further opportunity at life for sinful mankind.

It is an excellent political ploy for controlling people as it first says, «being human you are born sinful and are doomed to suffer forever in Hell, but follow this formula and all is forgiven and you will have pleasures beyond imaging forever in Heaven.»

Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and that often results in wars, oppression, and suffering.

Meanwhile, another sequence in which Talorel has to atone for the sins he has committed as a human is a great opportunity to play on how people are inherently sinful, how we seemingly can't get through an entire day without committing some sort of sin in the eyes of the Church or God, but that gets flown through quickly.

Many people found Francis Bacon's concern with «human goods» vulgar, or even sinful: it was enough for scientists to find the laws ruling natural phenomena, the better to glorify God, who first created Nature.

Because we are all sinful human beings it can be very easy to be a keeper at home who is miserable, discontent, longing for «greener pastures» and foolishly plucking down her home with her own hands (Proverbs14: 1).