Sentences with phrase «in human depravity»

Believing in human depravity doesn't negate our sense of responsibility.

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This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Jesus not only reveals to humanity once and for all the depth of depravity that is within the hearts of men, but in Jesus, we finally see what it means to be truly human, and therefore, truly divine.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

First, Reformed protestantism — which possesses the theology of «Total Depravity» — DOES N'T say that human beings are as evil as they could be, but rather just that they are evil in all their attributes, so that no aspect of the human condition is left untouched.

Nurtured toward sunny faith in human disposition, under God, they confronted the revived emphasis on original sin, total depravity and the human condition as diminishing the grandeur of the human as God's creation.

Kaplan asserts that humanity would not have come into being were it not for the divine grace that reveals itself in human moral responsibility despite all assumed and actual human depravity (GJM 494).

The idea that I'm going to pick someone and tell them all the deep dark secrets of depravity that exist in my soul, and ask them to police me into being a better person — like a human version of Internet filter software — sure isn't a pleasant thought.

This is all quite sweet, of course, but it does totally obfuscate one essential part of the Deluge account, namely, that God is not willing to tolerate human depravity indefinitely and that human evil will bring destruction upon nature and upon innocent bystanders as well as on the evildoers themselves — a message that might seem particularly appropriate in an age of terrorism and environmental pollution.»

War intrigued her, she says, because «it is a field that put human beings in the severe form of testing of human courage and self - sacrifice and human depravity and the kindling of murderous rage.»

In this moment, God departing from Christ and conquering humanity's sin illustrates both the reality of human depravity and the undeserved gift of God's amazing grace.

Though Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21 are popular verses used to defend Total Depravity, they in fact offer a choice to humans whether to sin or obey God.

Messiah College history professor John Fea writes about human depravity and its implications for studying the past on The Anxious Bench: The historian Herbert Butterfield informed us that «if there is any region in which the bright empire of the theologians and the more murky territory of....

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Here human depravity is cited, that condition of man in which the thoughts of his heart are only evil (6:5).

[2] This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a «sin nature», to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.

Written by C. S. Lewis from the perspective of a senior devil mentoring a junior devil in the ways of temptation, The Screwtape Letters edifies the reader even as it engages difficult and ugly truths about human experience and total depravity.

What measure of depravity does this unleash in the humans who visit?

Rejoining Noah in the present day, he (now a staunch Russell Crowe) and his wife (Jennifer Connelly, her second project with Aronofsky after Requiem for a Dream) live off the land like nomads, farming and scavenging for vegetables as the humans under the flag of Cain continue to ravage the Earth and pillage the world, their depravity reaching enough of a fever pitch to become an affront to God (who is always referred to as Creator).

«In a book which takes the reader on a journey to hell and back, J.F. Penn demonstrates her huge talent for conveying the depths of human depravity.»