Sentences with phrase «metaphor for sin»

He might have pointed out to them that paralysis is a telling metaphor for sin.

First, she upholds the Reformer's root metaphor for sin as «unfaithfulness» or the opposite of «living according to God's purposes by accepting God's grace.»

It's a truth that has been spiritualised away, as his teaching on debt is too swiftly turned into metaphors for sin.

Not exact matches

If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.

It would never have occurred to Jesus to talk about the «lesser of two evils,»» for to him sin was the supreme evil which must be eradicated root and branch — or to use his own metaphor, eye, hand, and foot (Matt.

The only way it can even possibly hold up under its own weight is if you throw the concept of original sin out entirely, spin it as something like «this is a metaphor for humans achieving sentience,» and in the process lose the entire purpose and mission of Jesus.

To say this is also to imply that the tendency of philosophy, religion, and common sense to ascribe evil acts to the moral inferiority of the individual — summed up for all time in the extraordinary metaphor of «original sin» — is not a fundamental explanation.

The early church used many metaphors to suggest this: Jesus in his death offered a sacrifice for our sins which we were not able or worthy to offer; he paid a debt we could not discharge; or took on himself a penalty we could not pay.

Sophisticated modern Christian writers, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, defend its validity, interpreting original sin as a metaphor for our flawed and precarious human condition.