Sentences with phrase «human sinfulness as»

Such a rejection is not uncommon in modern theology, but it overlooks the significance of human sinfulness as responsible action, an action that even God takes seriously.

All such theories grapple with the fact of human sinfulness as the primary, disruptive element in the relationship between us and God.

Not exact matches

To know God as governor is to understand that human sinfulness disfigures the world and requires restraining influences.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

To assume that we could have such a chart is to presume too much: it is to be guilty of that libido sciendi «lust for knowing», which Jacques Maritain quite rightly has condemned as one of the worst manifestations of human sinfulness.

By «perspective» I mean the realization that things will never be perfect In this world, that the ultimate good is unobtainable, that there is no such thing as a human cause or human institution without error and sinfulness, that only God deserves our ultimate loyalty.

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.

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.

Deep - seated and inveterate, sinfulness was now regarded as so essentially a part of human nature that no mere forgiveness of transgressions could salve its evil or volitional amendment undo its harm.

The reality of human sinfulness means that the instruments we intend to use for good are certain to be turned to evil purposes as well.

Rex, yes, Christians alone admit the total sinfulness, accept the Divine atonement as any honest humans should do, and sacrifice themselves to help others.