Sentences with phrase «of human sinfulness»

The mercy seat reminds us that a profound awareness of human sinfulness was characteristic of even the «priestly» strand of Israel's tradition.

The reality of human sinfulness means that the instruments we intend to use for good are certain to be turned to evil purposes as well.

Because of human sinfulness, the world needs to be put to rights again and its original purpose taken forward to completion.

A second, and all are closely interlinked and interdependent, the nature of human sinfulness, interpreted always in part against the presuppositions of the creation faith.

It uncovers the lostness of the world, the magnitude of human sinfulness, the tragedy of human alienation.

The continual unmasking of human sinfulness does nothing to enhance our respect for an underlying goodness in human nature; rather it panders to our own deep inadequacies.

Such a rejection is not uncommon in modern theology, but it overlooks the significance of human sinfulness as responsible action, an action that even God takes seriously.

The welfare state, in their opinion, does not take adequate account of human sinfulness.

All such theories grapple with the fact of human sinfulness as the primary, disruptive element in the relationship between us and God.

The fuller meaning of revelation can be understood, therefore, only if we take into account the fact of a human sinfulness that has continually resisted the freedom, extravagance, and surprisingness of the divine self - promise.

To assume that we could have such a chart is to presume too much: it is to be guilty of that libido sciendi «lust for knowing», which Jacques Maritain quite rightly has condemned as one of the worst manifestations of human sinfulness.

Jewish and Christian resistance to utopianism rests upon bitter historical lessons about the weight of human sinfulness.

The experienced fact of human sinfulness and the promise of salvation through the unmerited forgiveness of sin have placed much emphasis on divine judgment in traditional Christian thinking.

«Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulness.

She further argues that the fact of human sinfulness makes it necessary to have coercive measures at national and international level to prevent tax evasion and restrain tax avoidance.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Human sinfulness and self - interest will find ways to express themselves even in the best - intentioned efforts to remedy the defects of the marketplace.

Generally, they include the following in their gospel definition: - human sinfulness - the deity of Jesus - the death of Jesus on the cross for our sins - the resurrection of Jesus - the necessity of faith in Jesus to receive eternal life

Sinfulness, personal or corporate, is but a matter of maladjustment that can be cured through some minor psychological or sociological tinkering — I'm O.K. and you're O.K. and the Department of Health and Human Services will make our community a nice place to live.

Moreover, although Eastern Orthodoxy takes exception to the doctrine, it STILL maintains the sinfulness of humanity and would STILL maintain that human beings are sinful and therefore evil.

For given not only the sinfulness but also the limitations of human beings, there will always be a difference between the official morality proclaimed by the Church and that which is practiced by the average Christian.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

The capacity to speak, symbolized by the physical tongue, is the primary way through which we human beings express ourselves, and nothing reveals more deeply the biblical insight into the sinfulness and brokenness of human life than our verbal means of self - expression.

For Kierkegaard the recognition of one's sinfulness is only made possible by the reality of God's judgement; it is not an autonomous human possibility.

In the language of The Concept of Anxiety, she only sees the «quantitative determinations» of sinfulness in human history, without seeing the «qualitative leap into sin,» which is human evasion of God in the present moment in time.

Human sinfulness prevents persons from acknowledging the lordship of Christ and the transcendence of God.

I am sorry to say this after Thomas Martin Cothran's expressed nervousness about my comparisons of Catholic social thought and the social thought of the American founders: The Americans» persistent emphasis on human sinfulness seems to me more in touch with human experience than does papal social thought since 1891.

Yet in stressing man's permeating sinfulness it often seems to give a too pessimistic view of human nature, with too little recognition of the God - given capacity of some persons to live victorious and highly virtuous Christian lives.

(1) Justification points to the source of motive and morale for ethical living amidst the sinfulness of the human situation; it permits the Christian to participate in struggles for justice without making the struggle the norm.

They regard the human aspect - the obvious failures and frequent sinfulness of her members - and think that it must surely spell the end.

The Faith and Order statement then went on to point out how every social order is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in society.

A theology of redemption combines affirmation of human creativity in the purpose of God and deliverance from human sinfulness to release humans for their vocation of cooperation with God in continuous new creativity.

The central issue in the early debates between Fundamentalists and Modernists was on the question whether the gospel should emphasize as the essence of the gospel, deliverance of the humans from sinfulness or affirmation of the human vocation to creativity and cooperation with God in recreating nature and society according to the purpose of God.

But Macquarrie, like many theologians writing today, would be far clearer than Kübler - Ross that death, whatever else it is, is a part of the human condition of sinfulness.

Now Christian care means helping to overcome human sinfulness by the grace of God.

But to love is to be responsible, and human history is lived out under the conditions of the sinfulness of man.

Deep - seated and inveterate, sinfulness was now regarded as so essentially a part of human nature that no mere forgiveness of transgressions could salve its evil or volitional amendment undo its harm.

But one can take full account of the sinfulness of human institutions without concluding that participation in them necessarily implies sin.

The basis of the Christian contribution is the faith that the crucified Jesus Christ by mediating divine forgiveness to all humans in the solidarity of their sinfulness, has made possible mutual forgiveness between persons and peoples and has brought into being in history a new human communion (Koinonia), transcending all religious, cultural and natural diversities and divisions.

If the person you are talking to seems to believe that they don't need to believe in Jesus because they are good enough people on their own, you might want to present some of the preparation truths about the holiness of God and our own human sinfulness.

There can be a realistic pacifism, a pacifism that gives due weight to the sinfulness and perversity of human nature.