Sentences with phrase «less than sin»

To side - track planning a vegetarian LCHF diet would be nothing less than a sin.

It seems to me that this attitude is what is fueling the «hypocracy» — Christians have to be perfect, When Christians sin everyone bashes them / us, or my sin is less than your sin.

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

Not exact matches

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Looking at addiction as «sin» hasn't done mankind very much good for almost two thousand years; treating addiction — and other mental illnesses — as sickness rather than as moral failings or demonic possession has a much better track record, and it took less than 150 years to get there.

7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

Is His omnipotence removed if He can not sin and become less than morally perfect?

In less than a second the leader shouted: As being your pastor, I hereby bind you in this outspoken sin, and you will not be freed thereof until a pastor loosens you!

But how is that sin any more or less than mine?

He is also fully human like us in every way, except for sin (which would make him less than human).

When it comes to sin and the need for forgiveness, we are all «beggars before the throne» even though those of us whose self - interest is stronger than our self - will are more prone to sins of omission than commission are less likely to be found out.

Divorce, Adultery, Fornication, Gay are all sins.There is not one sin that is greater or lesser than the other.

Perhaps the good folks at the AHA missed this poll from 2013, which showed that less than 4 in 10 Americans believe that homosexuality is sin, and the number of Americans who think that homosexuality is sinful continues to drop.

Sin did no real harm whatever in the universe, since the absolute perfection which the universe involves in its cause could never be more or less than absolute.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

However, saying that homosexuality is not a sin, simply for the sake of avoiding offense, is nothing less than dishonesty and cowardice.

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

However, saying that Internet usage is not a sin, simply for the sake of avoiding offense, is nothing less than dishonesty and cowardice.

It is naturally less personal than those written to people he knew, and it is his greatest theological statement — an exposition of his faith, its foundations, its bearing on suffering, sin, and problems of moral decision.

It has always struck me as noteworthy that the Jews, who had wrestled with Genesis 800 years longer than Christians had, never found it necessary to speak of — much less found a spiritual theology on — original sin.

Sin is when we choose not to see that everyone is our neighbor, that we are all connected, that the homeless guy on the corner needs food, and the poor of Iran need food, and here we sit complaining about our jobs being outsourced overseas, as if some woman making shirts in Bangladesh is a lesser person than an American woman.

The Three - Fifths Compromise — a moral failure which defined a whole class of human beings as less than persons — was America's original sin the moment it was ratified.

Sin bothers us less than it did our fathers, not because we sin less, but because we have become wary of guilt complexes and scornful of old fogy scruplSin bothers us less than it did our fathers, not because we sin less, but because we have become wary of guilt complexes and scornful of old fogy scruplsin less, but because we have become wary of guilt complexes and scornful of old fogy scruples.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

You shouldn't paint with a broad brush, Divorce is not overlooked or weighted less than other sins.

I began to understand what she meant — that Penny is no more or less human than I am, no more or less born in sin, no more or less blessed, no more or less in need of redemption.

CJP: other than their non-belief, atheists tend to «sin» less than christians.

We are all sinners, myself included, and no sin is greater or lesser than another.

Nobody who loves Jesus more this year than last year can truly say that they sin less this year than last year.

No sin is more or less than any other in the eyes of their minor mountain storm deity.

While He does want us to sin less, more than that, He wants us to own up to our sin, and confess our many sins, and turn them over to Him.

I think that without a sin nature, Jesus is not less human than we are, but more.

Like the one I had when I took a Catholic Philosophy course — espousing that r - ape is less of a sin than mas - turbation, because at least r - ape can result in a pregnancy.

We, TRUE believers have lesser tendencies to commit murders and other unpardonable sins than atheists because, we believe that aside from it is logically, morally and lawfully wrong to harm our fellow beings, we also believe that they are abominable in the sight of God.

Hearing, repentance, acceptance of mercy, forgiveness of sins — these are all the work of God whereby man receives no less than a «new - being in Christ.»

I did disagree a bit with some of what he wrote (such as on pages 23 - 27, and 75 - 94), but really appreciated his take on Romans 1 - 7, and his view that sin is basically trying to be «more than human» which only leads us to be «less than human.»

Self - righteousness, while sinful itself, is less socially acceptable than most other sins.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

By classifying some sins as less forgivable than others, or some people as less worthy of our love and acceptance, we have forsaken the Gospel and abandoned the message of life in Jesus Christ, and replaced it with our own unloving, judgmental condemnation of others.

Interestingly, rather than cause us to sin more, this knowledge that we are fully loved by God no matter what begins to cause us to sin less.

I think things are simpler than they appear — pope - a-dope wants to allow his priests to use condoms so that when they abuse innocent children, they are protected and guilty of one less sin.

The boosterism once so grossly though alas not altogether unrecognizably caricatured by Sinclair Lewis was no less a besetting sin of St. Paul's Jewish than of its Christian inhabitants.

From the article: He said: «The sin of lust isn't just a mistake, a mess - up or a problem... it is no less than an act of sin that is reprehensible to God and nothing short of honestly confessing and repenting of that sins is good enough for God.»

This means that the worship of anything that is less than God — possessions, power, beauty, success — is a sin.

Christ is sinned against, I believe, when anything less than this universal, complete love is made central, either to God's nature and purpose, or to man's nature and destiny.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

The sin of lust isn't just a mistake, a mess - up or a problem... it is no less than an act of sin that is reprehensible to God and nothing short of honestly confessing and repenting of that sins is good enough for God.

this is no less serious than any other sin.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.