Sentences with phrase «original sin as»

Larian Studios has released the Enhanced Edition of Divinity: Original Sin as of today, Tuesday, October 27th.

I'm aiming to return to The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Rise Of The Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin as well and possibly Dying Light: The Following.

In a more ethical vein, Niebuhr thought of original sin as our tendency to make our own perspectives absolute, to transform our sense of the good into the good for everyone.

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.

Tillich, more philosophically inclined, saw original sin as a result of «man's existential predicament,» our haunting sense of «estrangement» from ourselves, from each other and from the mysterious source of our being.

One can not but feel that on this as on many other points the theologians considered the doctrine of original sin as a very present help in trouble.

«Original Sin as symbolic of the sins of our origins - in our families and in the broader society, both of which affect each person profoundly.

As far as original sin is concerned Dawkins is right to say that if we simply ditch «Adam and Eve» then we can not credibly maintain the traditional doctrine of original sin as a wound introduced by a historical individual and passed on to all further generations by inheritance.

There is some point in the view that Augustine had much to do with fastening a negative and morbid attitude toward sexuality upon the Christian church, but we want to find what it is in his view of love which led to this.12 We have to go deeper than the familiar point that Augustine thought of the stain of original sin as transmitted through the act of procreation.

And to attribute human mortality to the fall of Adam is sheer nonsense, for guilt implies personal responsibility, and the idea of original sin as an inherited infection is sub-ethical, irrational, and absurd.

At a time when it could be argued that we most need it, we have lost the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin as a corporate human condition preceding and affecting each individual.

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.

Some theologians «radically reinterpret or even reject the notion of original sin as something children inherit.»

Jesus should have as much original sin as the rest of the delusional, right?

The complexity of the Christian past is further exemplified by theologians «who interpret or even reject the notion of original sin as something children inherit and who provide alternative perspectives on sin.»

Ever since the Enlightenment there has been a progressive tendency to deny original sin as an offense to human dignity, and to promote experiments in reaching for divinity.

Did all the plants inherit original sin as well?

The idiotic theory of original sin as in «I was born a sinner, ha, ha, ha, and I can't do no better so I'll just wallow in it like a moron» is the beginning of Calvinism.

Not exact matches

He describes this as our «original sin» against Russia — the moment we should've known Putin had to be stopped.

If, as our current philosopher - pope reminds us, sin flows from a failure to gratefully acknowledge and do the duties that flow from our deeply relational being, then Mattie was, in a way, sort of a sinner by nature (as are we all, due to original sin), who added to her natural brokenness through her proud willfulness.

Further it undermines our Christian belief in original sin — as described by Paul — by replacing our original parents — Adam and Eve — with some unsubstantiated notion of descending from ape - like creatures in Africa.

God sent his son to be tortured and executed as a scape goat so others can be forgiven of their supposed original sin?

Then tell them it's ok to break them as long as you do everything I say, and believe everything I tell you, because we are all rule breakers (original sin).

Pelikan summarized the Protestant way of putting the argument: «If the Holy Trinity was just as holy as the Trinitarian dogma taught, and if original sin was as virulent as the Augustinian tradition said it was, and if Christ was as necessary as the Christological dogma implied, then the only way to treat justification in a manner faithful to the Catholic tradition was to teach justification by faith.»

As creatures created inherently inferior from a male's rib to server males» needs, but who are evil to core for forcing Original sin on humanity and forever barring us from Eden.

Put too briefly, total depravity means that, as a consequence of original sin, there is absolutely nothing we are capable of doing in order to be saved.

A systematic theology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing can not be reconciled with the witness of Jesus to God as recorded in the Gospels.

The myth of original sin is used every day in what a perceptive author designates as «the guilt - addled West» to manipulate and eventually subjugate us.

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

As neo-orthodox theologians, in the era of Reinhold Niebuhr have reminded us, technological advances can not vanquish original sin.

For Original Sin is not simply an abstract academic doctrine, as it often tends to be treated.

Grace is imputed in full on the basis of and as a result of the substitutionary atonement of Christ crucified for my original sin and that of the whole world.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

The Fathers are unanimous, as are the Doctors of the Church, that there was but one Adam and one Eve through whom Original Sin was transmitted to their posterity, the whole of the human race.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioAs I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioas well as heterodox, into the congregatioas heterodox, into the congregation.

St. Thomas held to the view that as a result of Original Sin, the wounding of human nature was only relative to its primitive condition, having lost its preternatural gifts.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

The notion that the personal deed of «Adam» or the first group of people is imputed to us in such a way that it has been transmitted to us biologically, as it were, has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian dogma of original sin.»

Is it less «monstrous and repulsive» [as Dilthey had stigmatized the doctrine of original sin] that sickness and misery are inherited from generation to generation?

We also believe that each person is responsible for his / her own actions and as such we don't believe that Jesus had to die on the cross because of the original sin.

So, I return to my original question: As long as we are aware of the poverty of others, is it a sin for us to be ricAs long as we are aware of the poverty of others, is it a sin for us to be ricas we are aware of the poverty of others, is it a sin for us to be rich?

(In fairness, I've met one who denied Original Sin, but this is not the same as denying humanity's evil.)

If Original Excuse comes as a package, so to speak, with Original Sin, he could hardly be naive about expecting mere rhetoric, no matter how brilliant, to uproot the culture of victimhood.

This opinion is based on the theological principle that, as Christians, we must profess the dogma that God wills the salvation of all men even in the post - paradisal period of original sin.

We profess, for example, the dogma of original sin to this day, with Augustine; it was defined as a dogma in his time.

He takes particular issue with doctrines ratified by popes down the centuries, such as the immaculate conception (the belief that Mary was born free from original sin) which, in his view, have no basis in scripture.

It relates to Mary's birth as immaculate, making her free from original sin and thus sanctified to be the mother of Jesus.

Man is born into original «sin», so all those, 5 billion or so, that never heard of your god are never going to be or can be saved because they see Jesus Christ as sheer bull sh!t.

At the hands of the Church, the children are being «intercised,» separated from their souls (what Pullman calls daemons) so they can be protected from Dust, fine particles that the Church regards as original sin.