Not exact matches
This verse contains a warning about those types of «Christian» theologies that condemn other
people and other things as being
impure and depraved.
«For of this you can be sure: No immoral,
impure or greedy
person, such a
person is an idolater - has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God» — Ephesians 5:5
People are finding scriptural justification to cleanse their groups of what they believe is
impure.
The traditional religion had divided the
people into those who were ritually pure and those ritually
impure.
20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself
impure by having se.xual relations with a man other than your husband» — 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse — «may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your
people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
The Lord's Table open to
people of different castes and tribes and sexes challenged the traditional spirituality that divided
peoples into the ritually pure and
impure and thereby supported social structures of caste, sex and other discriminations.
Religious institutions have done this to all sorts of
people for various reasons: black skin being
impure, dirty, in their eyes; gay
persons for being the reason God destroyed Sodom; women for somehow being the introduction of sin into the world.
Calling white
people the devil is
impure because it culls hate.
When you approach your fellows, they will shun you like an
impure creature; and those who believe in your innocence will be the very
people to abandon you lest they be shunned in their turn.
Unfortunately, if a
person with an
impure soul makes a wish, the artifact will grant their desire, but turn them into an all powerful being known as the Skullgirl hellbent on destroying humanity.
may we hope to receive an answer to the crucial enigma Guarani native
peoples have been faced with for generations: why on earth — despite feeling so similar to their gods — do they continue living in an
impure world instead of «yvy mara ey»: the Land without Evil?
For example: oral sex and similar acts are
impure between
people who are not married.