Sentences with phrase «of sinful human»

«Perhaps it is just part of our sinful human nature to attribute negative meaning to certain terms in order to justify the removal of words we either don't like or don't like the way they make us feel.»

Yet some degree of justice remains possible, so God allows the self - regarding acts of sinful human beings to bring the State into existence because its institutions — especially those of private property, marriage and slavery — are also a remedy for sin.

«It is a part of sinful human nature to build barriers that shut out other people.

That's not to say that the creativity of sinful human persons could ever free them from dependence on the Creator to whom they owe their very being.

The story of Jesus is what the eternal trinitarian life of God looks like when it is projected upon the screen of history, and this means not only on the screen of human history but of sinful human history.

Yet, says Moltmann, in this surrender of their mutual identity as Father and Son for the sake of sinful human beings, Jesus and the Father experience a new unity with one another in the Spirit.

The Divine became a member of our sinful human family of frail, short - lived creatures of a day.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

Not exact matches

Graber is passionately concerned with the nature of intelligence and the human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.

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.

Fairy tales without consequence also lose the potential for metaphor — in interpretation, werewolves» involuntary transformations could symbolize countless human realities, from mental and physical illness to fear of our own sinful natures.

† God brought the Law before to show human how sinful and short of Glory he / she is and that he / she needs God for redemption, hence, it was the shadow of Christ to come.

Only religion presumes to label human characteristics as «sinful», making it impossible for a bible botherer to ever feel «good enough», much less worthy of love and respect.

You can rationalize it, justify it, legislatively approve it, portray it as hip and en vogue, but at the end of the day, the Judeo - Christian Bible remains the same, a sinful p e r v e r s i o n of the human race.

A prophet is a sinful human born of this earth.

The sinful choices of all human beings then further add to the chaos, injustice and misery we so often find in the world.

We shall probably never be very good in praying, but that is simply a fact of our feeble, sinful, finite human nature.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

Alas, God did not continue the dispensation owing to the human choice of sinful ways.

The confession of Christians that we are creatures of God is coupled with the confession that we are the children of Adam and Eve, and therefore fallen and sinful members of the human race.

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.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

He was expressing the separation from God which all humans experience as part of our being in sinful flesh.

Because this sin is part of human nature, we speak of original sin, that is, a sinful quality in our lives that is deeper than particular sins.

The monastic policies that, for reasons of traditional obedience, hinder the human maturation and Christian growth of their members are sinful.

In fact, every rabbi cited by my Jewish correspondents — from Rabbi Meir of the Mishnah, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Moses Cordevero — recited these blessings, which ask God to return most human beings to Him in wholehearted repentance, but also to «uproot, smash, cast down» the wantonly sinful.

Much of what we see in our collective lives is the sinful and savage excesses of corrupt creatures, the diverse and perverse choices of free human agents.

Conclusion: Even we as sinful human beings punish our fellow human beings, if they extremly get out of line.

It also helps us understand that on the cross, Jesus understood the feeling of being a sinful human being, and it is for this reason that we can trust His promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb 13:5).

This is part of why we are so surprised and shattered when church leaders fall — we forget that they are sinful human beings, just as in need of grace and accountability as the rest of us.

Judas is not the alter ego of Jesus because that would make Jesus a sinful human being and unfit to be the perfect atonement to God for our sin.

But all we want is to help our people, to be instruments of mediating the Word and the finger of God to these human, likable, troubled, and sinful people.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

This view is normally associated with a somewhat external view of God's working and the notion that human nature is completely sinful.

Character is always vulnerable to those who would wound it with false or malicious words; hence, the ninth Word of the Lord speaks to the destructive tongues residing inside the heads of insecure and sinful human beings: «You shall not bear false witness.»

The revolutionary is one who cuts himself off from the sinful past of the human race in a movement of «repentance» that leads to the setting up of another closed - up, unfree sphere of existence.

In this case there is a competition between the gracious work of God and the sinful resistance of human nature.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

At the present time, theologians using an evolutionary explanation of human creation and development refer to original sin as the origin of our sinful history.

Whatever the explanation — mere human limitation or sinful results of our freedom — the actual conditions finally determined which of all the possible outcomes of that moment would be realized.

As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.

Murderous rage among Jesus» kinsmen comes as a sinful reaction to the touch of the divine in the human soul - a touch seeking to enter that space in us where we are intimate with God and called to submit to the divine will.3.

Though I am not a Calvinist, I hold to radical, outrageous, scandalous grace (a grace which is more gracious than the grace of many Calvinists), and I believe that as fallen and sinful human beings, we should always be about the work of reforming ourselves and our theology and never consider ourselves fully reformed.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

Just as God, who is ever and by nature sinless and can not sin, comes to the sinful world because he loves it, so the saint goes into the world because the holiness of God has made him real and overflows his humanity into human fellowship.

The other truth is that in all human conflict there is probably an element of sinful misuse of freedom and of self - assertion at the expense of the real good.

The Incarnate Word took to himself sinful flesh (which Bonhoeffer defines only as «human nature» or «our infirmities and... our sin «49) and thereby sought to create a community of followers.

Conventional Christianity asserted that, as sinful creatures in a fallen world ruled by an Almighty God, humans had no rights at all but were at the mercy of a gracious God.

Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).