Sentences with phrase «line of human sin»
Add this to the larger story line of human sin and divine judgment.
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He denied he was a universalist, but it was a difficult line for him to hold because he had such a strong view of Christ's death for our sins that he could not find a way to understand how it could not cover all humans.
They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»
If we evolved from the lower primates, then when we reached the stage of reflection and conscious choice (when the image of God entered into that line of primates), we made the decision to «sin» — to dominate and to kill in order to serve our own ends, rather than to follow the call of that «image of God» which had entered into the human creature.
In their book Pentecostalism and the Future of the Churches, Richard Shaull, emeritus professor of ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, and his colleague Waldo Cesar, a Brazilian sociologist, argue that Pentecostalism may represent a new paradigm of salvation in which the problem of human sin and the solution of repentance and forgiveness have been reconfigured along more hopeful, even joyful lines.
God judges the sin and human being judges the violation of human rights and a clear line should be between the two.