Sentences with phrase «human sin»

Our society elevates the self and fails to acknowledge the reality of human sin.

Ironically, his enemy is not human sin but his own institution.

To connect human disease with human sin is an easy and obvious, but to my mind, misleading thing to do.

This law is made to curb human sin, for it assumes that man will, if left alone, take greater vengeance than was taken on him.

It is claimed by some religious persons that death is the consequence of human sin.

I do, however, believe that just like the church, the received text is subject to corruption by human sin.

To connect human disease with human sin is misleading.

In order to get a clearer perspective on the development of the doctrine of love we must examine the main themes of love in the Old Testament, including the covenant with the Hebrews as God's act of love, the human love required in faithfulness to the covenant, and the suffering of God as a result of human sin in failing to keep the covenant.

At the 1925 Stockholm Life and Work conference, there was a clear division between the British and American idealism and optimism that thought the church's task was to inspire humanity to build the kingdom of God — the Social Gospel approach — and the more pessimistic continental view which saw a clear distinction between the values of the world and the message of the gospel, which was as much a judgment on human sin as a message of God's grace.

The Gospels portray» Jesus as torn between his fierce outrage over human sin and his profound sympathy for the frailties of the ostracized in his society.

The Catholic tradition — even the wise Pope Benedict — still seems to put too much stress upon caritas, virtue, justice, and good intentions, and not nearly enough on methods for defeating human sin in all its devious and persistent forms.

It is a tension between human perversity and divine purpose, between human sin and divine grace.

The christian view that human sin caused cancer is nonsensical.

Tallulah13... We know perfectly well that atheists think they simply have a «disbelief in God», but we also know that that ties in to the age - old human sin... man thinking that he is god.

Read Book of Revelation; God will judge human sin, making way for a New Heaven and New Earth.

The theology of nature is that God created nature, but it fell out of control when humans sinned.

People scare atheists, yet they refuse to recognize human sin (instead blaming all evils on «religion»).

Without the grace of Christ, who makes God's reconciliation a reality despite human sin, the devastation of relationships might get the best of us.

This violent murdering of others in God's name is the constant human sin of every culture and every generation.

The stain of human sin found in the myth of the fall of humanity (in the Garden of Eden) was not allowed to touch her.

So an all - powerful god caused a virgin to bear a son so that he could be sacrificed to wash away human sins that the same god caused us to be born into.

If only he could let go of his self - acknowledged (and self - induced) pessimism and embrace the truth about human sin.

The goriest work of human sin gets sidetracked into glorious divine redemption.

I take the symbolism in the Last Supper to show us that in His death, Jesus was revealing that scapegoating death and bloodshed is the basic human sin and is unnecessary for the forgiveness of sins.

If we try to argue the righteous wrath of God towards sinners away (as this world does), what remains is a ridiculously distorted picture of the true awesome and almighty God, who is loving and just, caring and chastening, redeeming and — one day — a condemning judge for those who refused to believe in His righteous judgment of human sin executed on the Cross.

And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own wrath and anger against human sin.

The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ had made it abundantly clear that God will not accept human sin as humanity's answer to the anguish that creation experiences on its way to God's ultimate goal.

For us Catholics, then, ecumenism is an urgent necessity requiring radical reconstructive surgery as we attempt to mend the body of Christ which human sin has mutilated.

Legal or economic understandings of atonement frame human sin in terms of a debt that must be paid.

Because in Wenger's head, doubting his decisions is the greatest human sin everyone should avoid.

Rather, Hart argues what is biblically clear: At the revelation of the children of God, all of creation, which must include animal life, will be released from the futility with which it has been burdened by human sin (Rom.

At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the good news is a requirement which can not be avoided, and that potentially faith and action based on this liberating gospel does indeed transform structures built upon human sin and pride.

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.

When it comes, it will signal God's victory over human sin — a victory over all the evil that besets the human spirit, and in the assurance of this victory we find hope.

Rowling deals with human sin in a realistic and very modern fashion: even figures of great authority commit sins and must learn wisdom in the wake of youthful folly.

The effects of the first human sin would actually be analogous to a terrible earthquake, devastating human nature and making man's place in Nature insecure.

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.