Sentences with phrase «from human sinfulness»

A theology of redemption combines affirmation of human creativity in the purpose of God and deliverance from human sinfulness to release humans for their vocation of cooperation with God in continuous new creativity.

Niebuhr's later writings reveal a shift in emphasis from human sinfulness to God's grace as found in Christ who offers both the truth that clarifies man's inadequate reason as well as the power to obey this truth.

Aside from human sinfulness, the fallen world is groaning for salvation and is filled with disease, intemperate weather and volcanoes and earthquakes.

Not exact matches

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.

«Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulness.

Human sinfulness prevents persons from acknowledging the lordship of Christ and the transcendence of God.

The central issue in the early debates between Fundamentalists and Modernists was on the question whether the gospel should emphasize as the essence of the gospel, deliverance of the humans from sinfulness or affirmation of the human vocation to creativity and cooperation with God in recreating nature and society according to the purpose of God.