Sentences with phrase «look upon sin»

Have you ever heard someone say that God can not look upon sin?

Sometimes we get this crooked view of God where He can not look upon sin or be near sin because sin would somehow taint His holiness.

Regarding this question of whether or not God can look upon sin or be near evil, I wrote this:

To say that God can not look upon sin is to say that sin can defeat and defile God; that sin is more powerful than the righteous holiness of God!

So this verse should NOT be quoted as saying that God can not look upon sin.

This idea that God can not look upon sin or see evil probably comes from Habakkuk 1:13.

Look at it this way: To say that God can not look upon sin or be in the presence of evil is to deny that Jesus was fully God.

It is only because God can look upon sin that He sent His son Jesus Christ to do something about sin, and it is only because God can be near sin that He is able to be with each one of us in the midst of our sin and filth.

Obviously, if God can not look upon sin or evil then God should not have been able to look upon satan, or even allow satan to enter His presence.

What I've been under the impression about God and why he hates sin is mainly due to the fact that he can not look upon sin as a pure and holy being therefore, as sinners, we are completely separated from God.

Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.

I remember a Calvinist preacher I heard in 1976 who would say stuff like «God is a hoooOOOOOoooly God who can not look upon sin» and condemn his congregation for the merest peccadillo.

Despite the fact that most of us grew up believing that God could not look upon sin (see my thoughts on that over here), it was not God who hid Himself from Adam but the other way around.

In this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can look upon sin and evil.

He also did a post on: God Can not Look Upon Sin?

Not exact matches

Yet God covers our actions in His own blood, so that every time God looks like a lying, murderous, baby - killing, woman - raping bastard, it is because God has taken the burden of human sin upon His shoulders, and borne it away upon His body into death.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

What about the triumph of holiness that is proud to say: «Look not upon our sins, but on the faith of your Church»?

When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.

When I read you say this as your possible resolution: «When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.»

This is the superbia, or pride, which the medieval church looked upon as the worst of the seven deadly sins, and which exponents of the neo-orthodox school, notably Reinhold Niebuhr in America, continually remind us is the root of sin.

We can look to Christ who took upon himself our sin and pain.

The average unbeliever does not look upon unbelief as a sin»

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

God is infinitely holy, and could never look favorably upon sin, and an offense against the holiness of God is an infinitely wicked deed done in open rebellion against the God who created you — that deed requires an infinite amount of retribution to atone for, and one that you, being a mere person could never repay though you attempted to do so for all eternity.

On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.

But the only reason people looked upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look upon Jesus in that way now), is because Jesus had incarnated Himself among men and had taken the sin of the world upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).

The self - acknowledged sacerdotal sinner prayed that the Lord Jesus in granting peace and unity to the Church look not upon his sins but rather upon the Church's faith which Christ himself assures.

But here, except thou do the quite contrary, except thou send Moses away with his law, and in these terrors and this anguish lay hold upon Christ who died for thy sins, look for no salvation.

How did God look upon his failure to admit his sin and his apparent bragging about his good deeds?

The Lord revealed that the problem was with my heart it is so wicked and deceptive i still believed that i was a good person i did nt drink or take drugs smoke or swear i wasnt violent i had some hangups but kept them to myself but this wicked thought was the reason why i couldnt get free.That was enough for the enemy to bring guilt and condemnation upon me.So when i confessed that my heart was indeed wicked and that i needed a new heart.I was instantly delivered and set free from the past and have not looked back though i am sometimes reminded by others for what i did wrong.It no longer has power over me.I believe we all struggle with two areas as christians we must confess our sin and we must confess our pride for without him we can do nothing.May the Lord show you what it is that is blocking you from receiving his love and forgiveness the issue will be found in your heart ask the Lord to reveal it for what it is.We do nt like to see the truth its ugly and i am sorry if this offends you it wasnt my intention.May he set you free as he has done for me.regards brentnz

That's not a sin, or a moral failing, or behavior that god looks down upon?

The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel must in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is declared to be no longer in place; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolition of the contrast between this world and the next which thought all the history of the Jews had continually been growing wider: «As in heaven, so on earth.»

No question that Sin City is a labor of love for writer / director Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Faculty), who went through painstaking effort in order to capture the look, feel and characterizations of the original comic book by the legendary Frank Miller.

Here I was looking for The Sixth Deadly Sin to come out when I came upon this announcement in your online paper.