The continual unmasking of
human sinfulness does nothing to enhance our respect for an underlying goodness in human nature; rather it panders to our own deep inadequacies.
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.
And if that be true, then doesn't it follow that we
humans also bear no responsibility for our
sinfulness?
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 welfare state, in their opinion,
does not take adequate account of
human sinfulness.
I am sorry to say this after Thomas Martin Cothran's expressed nervousness about my comparisons of Catholic social thought and the social thought of the American founders: The Americans» persistent emphasis on
human sinfulness seems to me more in touch with
human experience than
does papal social thought since 1891.
If the person you are talking to seems to believe that they don't need to believe in Jesus because they are good enough people on their own, you might want to present some of the preparation truths about the holiness of God and our own
human sinfulness.
Rex, yes, Christians alone admit the total
sinfulness, accept the Divine atonement as any honest
humans should
do, and sacrifice themselves to help others.