Sentences with phrase «from human sin»

In response to my statement that it would have arguably been preferable for Hick's deity to have prevented all the suffering and destruction resulting from human sin forgoing the satisfaction of having us develop authentic love and trust, Hick gave the same response as Hasker — that such deception would be improper.

Skills and technology of all kinds may be admirable, but the tyrannical or greedy use of human power over nature is a failure deriving from human sin, not from God's intention in creation.

Not exact matches

First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.

Jesus has been disabled since he rose from the dead carrying with him the burden of the sins of every human soul, past, present and future.

Jesus is always pointing back to the broken human heart as the spring from whence our sin comes.

His appeal to the dignity of humanity, the toleration of differing ideas, and emotivism finds a needed alternative in James Rogers» response from a Christianity that observes how sin perpetuates «the indignity of the human person.»

Since Jesus was born from a human, he also part of sin.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

It's easy to see individual sins and their aggregate effect alienating people from one another and from God in Sandtown: shooting another human being or stealing to buy drugs are obvious as are landlords who won't deal with lead paint or officers who don't strap prisoners down in the van.

People do not care enough about human suffering to turn from their rebellion against God and from their sins and turn back to God.

«The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4

From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish human decisions and the consequences of From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish human decisions and the consequences of from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish human decisions and the consequences of sin.

Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).

«Whatever salvation is... it includes the total transformation of human life, forgiveness of sin, healing from infirmities, and release from any kind of bondage.

Well if it's slightly more evidence of the existence of a man outside of Italy in the 1st century who was born of a virgin, died for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning of time which caused all humans to go to hell when they died.

We (humans) are «worthy of death» (not just punishment) from the moment we are born, since we are «flesh,» and therefore «sin.»

It states that her «immunity from the effects of Original Sin» was «by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race».

If all the genetic information from a human embryo were stored in a flash drive, would it be a sin to delete it?

Thus Original Sin (and its consequences) is not just the fact of a fall from grace and destination in God, it is also a fact of human biology, a fall from proper union and harmony in the flesh and in the psyche of Man.

However, his proclamation of «a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin» strikes most of us, if we are honest, as a call from another world — a voice from a wilderness that has long since been brought under human control.

What captures Jones's theological imagination is Calvin's riveting descriptions of sin's power to assault a human being «from the outside in,» co-opting the self's resources and eventually destroying the self's integrity.

Similarly, the doctrine of Original Sin being passed on by physical generation, hence that we are all descended from the first humans who fell from grace, is indeed defined de Fide.

Christ's love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to God, or that you are loved by God.

This is because human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our sins) is not just about God «turning a blind eye» to our rejection of him.

On question: if sin was not imputed to people living during the time from Adam to Moses, why did God destroy the entire human race by a flood in Noah's day?

Sin is what seperates us from God as humans, and failure to accept Christ as Lord is what will seperate people from His family.

Paul is * not * saying all sinned «in Adam» — i.e. it is * not * sin that is passed from generation to generation (that is, that the taint of sin was added to / imposed upon our human constitution).

He gives the salvation package — from sin and death and slavery to exaltation in the heavens (Ephesians 2:1 - 3, 6 - 7)-- freely, by His grace, without any human works, effort, or sacrifice involved.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

This is because human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our sins) is not just about God «turning a blind...

They believed that Jesus had come as God in human form and that by his coming, and above all by his suffering, death, and resurrection, he had saved God's children from their unfortunate condition of sin and their resultant alienation from God.

The Church also believed that these gods, for all their bluster and ongoing involvement in human affairs, could not answer the deepest human need: deliverance from our enslavement to sin and death, not mere solidarity and fellowship in the midst of that enslavement.

Their sin cut them off irrevocably from God and so God decided to repair the damage done by sending his Son to take that sin upon himself and so restore human beings to righteousness.

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.

At this level the set - up is, «Since everyone is corrupt, is it possible for even the best of human beings to be delivered from sin or survive the judgment of God?»

But like I also said, separate the sins of humans from the message.

The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to speak of sex, as of every aspect of human life, in a double way, from the standpoint of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.

In other words, when theologians affirm faith in the transcendent God of the scripture, they are affirming faith in the God who has acted in human history to make human beings whole and redeem them from their sins.

Pushing it to the extreme, maybe Noah should kill any new baby girls to keep the human race from starting over and cursing the world with their sin.

In the Bible sin is not a deed; it is a description of human life separated from the love of God and experiencing the reality of lack of love, inadequacy, and insecurity, and seeking to create the missing ingredients ourselves and always at someone else's expense.

The unforgivable sin is from a human perspective.

The second answer given to the questions mentioned above is that God is hidden from man by human sin.

It will begin a drama of sin and redemption, from which will emerge also the drama of human politics.

The film hews close to the Christian notion of original sin: Noah states quite forcefully that humans have all been corrupted since the expulsion from the Garden.

Without a doubt, it is the ever present reality of sin, the human condition, and how the bible portrays these concepts that is the most tangible evidence for the Christian God from my perspective.

The widely held position that the spirit of the human died when Adam sinned is obviously an assumption derived from the fact that he continued to live to the age of 930 years after his original sin.

For Christians, «freedom» ultimately looks to freedom from bondage to Satan and sin, albeit with implications for bondage to other humans.

If we evolved from the lower primates, then when we reached the stage of reflection and conscious choice (when the image of God entered into that line of primates), we made the decision to «sin» — to dominate and to kill in order to serve our own ends, rather than to follow the call of that «image of God» which had entered into the human creature.

More will be said about God's answer to human lovelessness in later chapters, particularly the one that deals with our salvation from sin.

Then God and heaven... are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being» (Unity of Good [First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1887], p. 37).