Ironically, his enemy is
not human sin but his own institution.
Territoriality and regionalism are
not human sins, but rather assurances — along with local languages and cultures — that humans will remain individuals.
Such pitiless events are
not human sins; they are nature's deeds.
Not exact matches
Reality quotes a paradiddle,»... Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in place of
humans who needed to be punished for their
sins...» TThey ddon't bbelieve God iis jjust.
if the first pair would nothave
sinned they would still be here and all
human kind would know is the ways of almighty God and existing on a paradise earth — wich still is comming.the reason he didn't destroy Satan immediately is because he posed a Question as to almighty Gods right to sovereignty..
muslims DO
NOT worship Jesus Christ it would be considered a MAJOR
SIN in Islam to worship a physical
human enti ty
If
humans were able to save themselves, Jesus Christ would have
not needed to die for our
sins!
In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that
sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the
human condition, it's that it is
not something that should make us «feel better.»
That plus being a
human rights abusing, racist jerk who threatens
humans with eternal torture for the «
sin» of sincerely
not believing in him.
What, that god sent himself in
human form to earth to live and die, so that he could live again and then rejoin himself in heaven, so that the creations, who apparently have original
sin because a talking snake convinced a rib lady to eat an apple thousands of years ago, could choose to believe in Zombie Jesus and if they did they would go to heaven but if they didn't believe in Zombie Jesus they would fry in Hell forever, regardless of how good a life they lived on Earth?
God does
not need to become
human and kill himself for the
sins of man.
It's unique among modern religions in that
human sacrifice:» (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice for our
sins, and
not only for ours but also for the
sins of the whole world.»
Contraception is a
sin because it is God's decision whether or
not a
human is alive at any given point, right?
If Jesus is fully
human and also sinless, then *
sin * can
not be intrinsic to our humanity.
the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original
sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local
human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and
human agency by existing in but
not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.
The Catholic tradition — even the wise Pope Benedict — still seems to put too much stress upon caritas, virtue, justice, and good intentions, and
not nearly enough on methods for defeating
human sin in all its devious and persistent forms.
It's easy to see individual
sins and their aggregate effect alienating people from one another and from God in Sandtown: shooting another
human being or stealing to buy drugs are obvious as are landlords who won't deal with lead paint or officers who don't strap prisoners down in the van.
Jesus died so we don't have to pay for those
sins because as
humans we can't help it.
Humans are not perfect and are sinners that is the whole point of jesus is to forgive our sins because as humans we can't help bu
Humans are
not perfect and are sinners that is the whole point of jesus is to forgive our
sins because as
humans we can't help bu
humans we can't help but
sin.
He didn't need Jesus to save
humans, all he needed to do was forgive
sin.
We can
not be expected to remember every
sin we have ever committed or be aware of every minor (in
human terms)
sin that we commit.
Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be
human by the Original
Sin,
not the Original Blessing — which is
not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the
human rather than Divine action.
The non-existent god I don't believe in doesn't save the day, their is no «salvation for the christians», but maybe, in the late afternoon sunlight, while tracking a dust mote through the air, it might be that
human invention of «god» was an attempt to take away «
sin» so that we could find the beautiful, and ethical, and loving within ourselves and others.
People do
not care enough about
human suffering to turn from their rebellion against God and from their
sins and turn back to God.
«The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does
not live in temples built by
human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will
not share in her
sins, so that you will
not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4
And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the
human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem
not only our grosser
sins but our noblest aspirations as well.
It has been the
sins of the Leviathan and Dynasau
not only to make all
humans as objects of exploitation and oppression, but it is also the
sin to make the created things the object of the exploitation, for these
sins are to turn the God's created garden into the jungle.
We (
humans) are «worthy of death» (
not just punishment) from the moment we are born, since we are «flesh,» and therefore «
sin.»
Thus Original
Sin (and its consequences) is
not just the fact of a fall from grace and destination in God, it is also a fact of
human biology, a fall from proper union and harmony in the flesh and in the psyche of Man.
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.
«If anyone asserts that Adam's
sin affected him alone and
not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for
sin, and
not also that
sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole
human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore as
sin came into the world through one man and death through
sin, and so death spread to all men because all men
sinned» (Rom.
'' If any one asserts, that this
sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation,
not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of
human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»
This is because
human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our
sins) is
not just about God «turning a blind eye» to our rejection of him.
Therefore it is
not affected by the profound wounding of
human nature caused by the
sin of Adam which happened at the origins of our species.
Sin is a mystery in the fullest theological meaning of that term, the «mysterium iniquitatis», and we can
not expect fully to understand how, so to say, we as
humans can stand outside God's will.
On question: if
sin was
not imputed to people living during the time from Adam to Moses, why did God destroy the entire
human race by a flood in Noah's day?
Paul is *
not * saying all
sinned «in Adam» — i.e. it is *
not *
sin that is passed from generation to generation (that is, that the taint of
sin was added to / imposed upon our
human constitution).
but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was
not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE
sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its
human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.
(Eph 2), and so the
human nature of Christ can
not be intrinsically wounded by Adam's
sin as ours is.
God loved
human beings; God hated
sin; everybody is a sinner; God would send all sinners to hell if Jesus hadn't died in our place; believe it or you'll be sorry.
This is because
human wickedness has real consequences, and therefore our redemption (i.e. how God saves us from our
sins) is
not just about God «turning a blind...
i think refusing to see another
human as an equal is a
sin, refusing to acknowledge that children are small versions of adults and have a lot of insight on things is a
sin... but loving another of the same gender isn't a
sin, it's love.
The Church also believed that these gods, for all their bluster and ongoing involvement in
human affairs, could
not answer the deepest
human need: deliverance from our enslavement to
sin and death,
not mere solidarity and fellowship in the midst of that enslavement.
Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was
not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of
human nature and relationships being fractured by
sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all
human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to
human frailty is
not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding;
not calling people to repent their
sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance;
not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.
And
human marriage is the living out of his plan: a lifelong bond between a man and a woman: the one blessing «
not forfeited by Original
Sin, or washed away in the flood».
The terrible personal cost is
not something demanded by the Father; it is the consequence of what
sin has done to
human beings in destroying the image and glory of God within our nature.
Having gone to the trouble of impregnating a
human and being born god incarnate and dying for mankind's
sins, why wouldn't god have ensured there was tons of evidence that this was true?
Thus the Incarnation is placed by Scotus in the context of creation and
not of
human sin.
While we do
not claim that
human beings are enslaved by
sin, we are aware of the great capacity that
humans have for evil as well as for good.