Sentences with phrase «human sin and evil»

We would do well to look toward a different tree: not that of the knowledge of good and evil, falsely tempting us with a leap toward divine independence, but the tree that was built into a cross, on which God in lowly human flesh took the penalty for human sin and evil.

I'll focus on your problem with the word evil (as for the eastern stuff, I'm aware that try see it as a sickness, but there is also an acknowledgement of human sin and evil.

Not exact matches

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Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

Because humans are flawed, some more than others, depending on what has been learned and experienced though out life; also the kinds of sin and wounds we have been exposed to, which determine gateways that give access for evil to dwell in us.

Sin and evil reside in the human heart according to a number of Old and New Testament Scriptures, e.g. Genesis 6:5; Deuteronomy 15:9; Proverbs 12:20; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 15:18 - 20; Acts 5:4, Romans 1:21; and Hebrews 3:12, to name but a few.

It shows us a radically transformed human nature, no longer defined by the twin evils of sin and death.

Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.

The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30

This is why any moralistic substitution of human good and evil, and on the other hand, any legalistic or ceremonial view of the demands of God, fails to do justice to the full seriousness of sin.

Niebuhr's antipathy toward any form of inherited sin reflected his fear that it would mitigate responsibility; hence he writes: «the theory of an inherited second nature is as clearly destructive of the idea of responsibility for sin as rationalistic and dualistic theories which attribute human evil to the inertia of nature» (NDM 262).

Since sin is located fundamentally in freedom, and freedom is connected with human self - transcendence, corporate evil is something less than sin.

1970) and Cosmic Love and Human Wrong (New York: Paulist Press, 1978): perhaps I may refer the reader to them for a fuller treatment of moral evil and sin.

One could at least stop cherry picking sins and the sinners in question and just decide to become an equal opportunity bigot, hating the whole of the human race because of the systemic and systematic sin and evil of humanity.

Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.

Hence, the sin and evil in human society.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that as a result of original sin, an operative evil is to be found in human nature - not least in the sexual attraction between man and woman, also inside marriage.

The new formula, in consequence, was that man's happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one thing supremely pleases God, moral goodness, and one thing supremely he hates, moral evil; that whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all human suffering is thus punishment for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»

We can not here pursue a discussion of sin and evil, but we can affirm the insight of Reinhold Niebuhr that this creative capability of human nature (of man as «spirit,» as Niebuhr puts it) is the source of both man's greatness and his misery.

Christians have a realistic view of human nature — we are not surprised that evil and sin exists even in people who aspire to be good.

You say that god can not abide sin and evil, yet he continued along the path to create lucifer, and indeed the very nature that humans have that leads to evil.

It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.

On the one hand, I've heard that evil exists because of human choice and that suffering is the result of rebellion against God, but on the other, I've been told that fallen humans have no choice but to sin because it is inherent to their nature, and God sovereignly allows suffering to continue.

The minister's theology in preaching must be brought to bear at every point on the human situation: on prayer; on the problem of evil; on sin and repentance; on the fact of death.

Again, in Romans 8:9 - 22, Paul seems to echo the Stoic views of the aging of the world, as well as the Jewish apocalyptic conception of its subjugation by evil powers responsible for human sin and the disruption of nature.

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...

Out of this came a lot of debate about original sin, the evil of human nature, and all the mental gymnastics to sustain that stuff.

But when the Holocaust is interpreted as an act so monstrous that it is separate and distinct from all other human evil; when the victims are understood as a special case among all other victims of oppression; when the men who did this deed are differentiated from all other men as being singularly demonic and non-human — then there is no connection between those criminals and ourselves, no possible continuum between our sin and Nazi sin.

Just in case his readers construe this as being a human function, Upadhyaya qualifies the extra-mundane character of this teaching: «Jesus Christ claims to have given to mankind the completest possible revelation of the nature and character of God, of the most comprehensive ideal of humanity, of the infinite malice of sin, and of the only universal way to release from the bondage of evil» (Ibid.)

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...

Granted, there will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing ingenuity of human sin, and creating a painful legacy of injury and evil.

The myths go on to illuminate the human experience of sin and evil.

He has proven himself able to resist the temptations that lead to sin and its evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt of God's promises.

Morgenthau, however, concluded that humans might not be purely and unalterably evil — but their flaws can be commonly explained through the original sin.

A classic story of good and evil, sacrifice and sin — a gripping page - turner that illuminates the darkest corridors of the human mind.

From the Old Masters to contemporary art, from Dante to Catherine Opie, viewers see a human's capability for sin, and probe their own ability to live in a world littered with evil that springs from wars to lascivious private delights.

I heard other interpretations while there, and so did the artist: that the paintings examine the loss of innocence, that they are a caricature of original sin, that they meditate on hypocrisy, that they demonstrate human capacity to be at once good and evil.