Sentences with phrase «of habitual sin»
We know that Christ died for us while we were yet sinners, yet we are too often unwilling to open up our lives to those who are caught in patterns of habitual sin.
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They teach that if you have patterns of habitual sin in your life, you have good reason to question whether or not you actually have eternal life.
Not exact matches
Finnis and Grisez charge that, according to the logic of Amoris Laetitia, some of the faithful are too weak to keep God's commandments, and can live in grace while committing ongoing and habitual sins «in grave matter.»
Those believers who are engaged in willful habitual sin run the risk of becoming children of the devil instead of children of God, thus severing their relationship with God and «eternal» life itself.
However, this is vastly different from the practice of willful and habitual sin for which there is no guarantee of forgiveness (1 Jn 3).
Ask yourself when you fall back into habitual sin the most, and don't be surprised to find it is in moments of unmanaged free time.
And, even though the Bible clearly refers to drunkenness as sin, most Christians have hopped onto the AA bandwagon of faith and believe that habitual drunkenness is due to a disease called «alcoholism» or «addiction» rather than to sin» (p. 74).
And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.
For alcoholism, the emphasis has changed from sin to sickness; and while there are still people who attribute moral weakness to the habitual drunkard, the general consensus of the medical profession now is to diagnose disease.