«It was
mans sin with Adam and the sin in man at the time of Jesus that not only killed but, mocked, humiliated, tortured Christ.»
They make all women hide under a non-entity dress so their bruises are not shown and so that the women — whom they believe are responsible for the men's thoughts in their heads - do not «make»
men sin with their lust.
Not exact matches
For if God did not spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness,
with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous
man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
God came down as a
man to take upon Himself our
sins to make us right
with God, the Father.
When I lust or have sex
with men outside of a covenant relationship, I
sin (the reason I think it's
sin, however, is probably different from why you do).
And as Germaine Greer can attest, transphobia is the unforgivable
sin du jour of anyone
with the temerity to suggest that a
man who thinks he is a woman is not necessarily so and has no automatic rights to the narrative of female victimhood.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was
with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said;
with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right
with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the
man of
sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the
man of
sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that
man of
sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one
with Him, even as Jesus is
with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
Some people seem to have an intellectual problem
with the issue of Judas: How could a disciple or a saved
man do such an awful
sin?
«I guess my question is, do you believe it's a
sin for a white
man to marry and procreate
with a black?»
«Rasputin was a
man of peace, a
man with an innate antipathy to bloodshed whose devout Christian faith taught him that war was a
sin.»
The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since
man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as
with any repeated
sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless
It's still a theological inconsistency of fatal proportions (no pun intended)-- God sets a
man along a path aligned
with God's plan, knowing the results of God's plan will cause the
man to commit a «mortal»
sin to end his terrible remorse (which wouldn't have happened were it not for playing his part as God wanted him to do), resulting in eternal damnation, and God allows it to happen?
Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are
man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by
men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the
sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled
with God.God bless
At baptism your old
man of
sin dies together
with Jesus and you resurrect to a new life together
with Jesus.
Our old
man of
sin dies together
with Jesus and we resurrect together
with Jesus to a new life.
A lazarus, dead and still dying, I stink
with the rotting of
sin wrapped tight about limbs limp
with what
man is and isn't.
So again Naomi shut up you have no authority to be trying to teach
men, but you are filled
with Satan go and
sin no more!
Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer
with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair
with a
man you knew was married?How does that square
with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can
sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your
sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).
And cometh that match, Jesus shall laugh in glee as the faithful, filled
with His love, gouge the eyes from the atheists and kicketh them where
men should not be kicked, and smash them over the head
with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling, and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil
sins.
Just like all
men,
with the exception of Jesus Christ, all Popes have
sinned.
He loved
men so much that, even knowing many would reject his offer, he freely provided the costly atonement for all
sin, so that no
man need fear punishment and death, but could repent of their wickedness and be restored to loving relationship
with God.
So my independent critical thinking is this: Jesus Christ founded His Church for His people so when we fall into
sin we have His inst!tuted Sacraments to bring us back to the relationship we had
with Him at our Baptism; to leave the Church in search of something «
man made» because of someone's
sin would just mean that I would go somewhere else where there are people and people the world over
sin!
My introduction to the Mars Hill story was a blog post that exposed how a young
man was shamed, publicly humiliated, and shunned for the
sin of confessing that he'd been sexual
with his fiance.
Jesus told those who thought they weren't in good
with God that the road to salvation is narrow, that they must go and
sin no more in order to be saved, and he told the wealthiest
man that his riches were keeping him from Heaven, all problems that we deal
with today.
I read your statement, which I already knew that the only
sin that God can not forgive is when
men with all his clear conscious reject the gift of salvation by his Creator.
For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed
men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled
with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original
sin, which proceeds from a
sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).
I suppose if you find a passage like Leviticus 18 that says to lie down
with a
man as you would a woman is
sin in Israel, you might just say that this passage is one you don't follow.
Redemption is the healing of the damage caused to human nature by
sin and the restoration of
man's lost relationship
with God.
The estate of the church, of course, was special: The pastorate was entrusted
with the «Office of the Keys,» the authority and command to forgive
sins, and thereby communicate the reality of the Kingdom of God into day - to - day life within the Kingdom of
Man.
this is not true, we are told to judge righteously and God judges unbelievers but we are to judge believers,
sin must be taken out of the church, read your bible again, what happened
with the
man that was fornicating
with his mother in law, did nt Paul judge him, did nt he say for the church to judge him and put him away from the church, remove him?
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness
with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil
men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those
men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their
sin in all its hatefulness.
16Nor can the gift of God be compared
with the result of one
man's
sin: The judgment followed one
sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
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.
There will be a new heaven and a new earth and that we will live
with our Creator for all eternity, in the way that it was supposed to be originally before
man brought and introduced
sin into the world.
The sacrifices were confided in by good
men as the outward symbols of forgiven
sin and reestablished fellowship
with God, but they were also confided in by evil
men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.
The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women
with Eve's
sin and
men with Christ's victories over
sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.
Without the Fall of
man, without the original
sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion
with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.
Only God can resolve this
sin - guilt - suffering - death complex, and Christians believe, however their interpretations may vary, that «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself» But quite apart from this act of reconciliation it is most important to realize that Jesus declared categorically that reconciliation
with God is an impossibility without reconciliation
with man.
sin is a
man made concept, a religious guilt trip that only resonates
with the members of that religion
If the radical self - assertion which makes it impossible for
man to achieve the authentic life of self - commitment is identical
with sin, it must obviously be possible for
man to understand his existence altogether as a gift of God.
Paul Tillich in his Systematic Theology would say that «The doctrine of original
sin seems to imply a negative evaluation of
man and this in radical contrast
with the new feeling for life that has been developed in industrial society.»
Noddings finds the Judeo - Christian tradition especially culpable in women's denigration: there is the Adam and Eve story,
with Eve held responsible for accepting the serpent's temptation and leading
man to
sin; the Old Testament «uncleanness» references and practices; the long history of burning witches; even the veneration of the Virgin Mary.
Augustine never lets us forget that we live in two cities at the same time, the City of God, and the City of
Man which is infected
with sin.
On the other hand, there were other
men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up
with the doctrines of Original
Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.
Since women are equal
with men in
sin as well as in promise, they can not by their presence change the old Creation to a new one.
The central feature of the message of Jesus is, then, the challenge of the forgiveness of
sins and the offer of the possibility of a new kind of relationship
with God and
with one's fellow
man.
But if one is attempting instead to get at Paul's own orientation, then it would seem that for Paul the most basic
sin of
man is that he confuses God
with the world, the Creator
with the creation:
«
Sin» is doing anything against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down with the man love, it's a s
Sin» is doing anything against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down
with the
man love, it's a
sinsin.
Moreover, a
man can never absolve himself and decide
with certainty whether his daily
sins which he must acknowledge do not hide a radical No to God, even though he hopes that they do not exclude him from the kingdom of God.
It challenges
men to join him in the joyous celebration of the new relationship
with God and one another which the realization that the time of the eschatological forgiveness of
sins is now makes possible.