Sentences with phrase «own sinful human»

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.

A prophet is a sinful human born of this earth.

It is not perfect love, but I know that as a sinful human being, I could never love perfectly.

Between you and I, from my sinful human perspective I abhor the doctrine.

Shakespeare's play informs the evangelical pastor especially that understanding, much less guiding, sinful humans is an exceedingly complex, frustrating, difficult, all but impossible proposition.

I'd say that's great patience, after all you are a sinful human being, as we all are.

However, I DO despise sinful human existence, for it is evil.

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

Though this seems unjust, people explain that it only seems unjust because we are sinful human beings and think that some sins are not as bad as others.

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.

As the sinful human I am, I failed.

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.

The cross removed the barrier between a holy Cod and sinful human beings, made atonement, gave access into that grace in which we stand.

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.

What can be known about God is plain to them [sinful human beings], because God has shown it to them.

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

Therefore, if Jesus had a truly human body, then it must have been evil or sinful, and if so, then Jesus was accursed and died as a sinful human in the flesh so that God could set Him free into the spiritual realm.

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.

I do believe we need to share about the love of God and the renewed relationship with the Father though, but laying the foundation of the truth that we are sinful human beings, in need to be saved first.

At baptism your dirty, impure old man of sin (the sinful human nature) dies and you resurrect to a new life in Christ.

But they also believed there was a huge gap — an «infinite qualitative distinction» in the words of theologian Karl Barth — between sinful humans and the omniscient God.

But, if Yahweh was angry with sinful humans, and is all - powerful, why could he have not just wiped out all humans but Noah and his family?

The congregation is made up of men and women who are finite, sinful human beings, yet also endowed with unrealized creativity.

If God is going to accomplish anything in the world, He has no choice but to use sinful human beings to do it.

Plus remember the church is made of of humans, sinful humans.

«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.»

We need to frequently be filled because as sinful humans, we leak.

I am a sinful human not a «bad» Christian.

Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and that often results in wars, oppression, and suffering.

It's true that sinful humans shouldn't judge each other... but Jesus?

Every single one of us is a sinful human being in need of God's grace provided through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

By this action he reconciled the sinful human race with the utter perfection and holiness of God.

Because we are all sinful human beings it can be very easy to be a keeper at home who is miserable, discontent, longing for «greener pastures» and foolishly plucking down her home with her own hands (Proverbs14: 1).

Not exact matches

It does not even make us human to be sinful.

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.

Many in the Church today are frequently told we are sinful, awful, terrible human beings.

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.

Gay people commit suicide because their sinful lifestyle is too much for any human being.

First, as sinful, unregenerate human beings, people can do nothing good for God, nothing to earn or merit eternal life, and nothing which might put them in God's good graces.