Sentences with phrase «perfection from sin»

Now, nobody can become a perfect parent, and you may never obtain perfection from sin, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try your best, does it?

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Luther's teaching on forgiveness, when preached apart from the context of 16th century Catholic emphasis on perfection, can easily lead to a retarded spirituality of sin, claim your forgiveness, sin, claim you forgiveness,... and a retarded spirituality where sanctification becomes an eschatological hope and no more than a legalistic fulfillment of the Law.

Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer under the power of the law, and no longer slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life under our own power.

But Christianity makes answer, «No, that is what you know least about, how far you are from perfection, and what sin is!»

He doesn't expect perfection from us; but neither does He expect humans to «practice sin.»

Religious believers are dismayed by evolution theories because, by locating the origin of all things in the brute indifference of matter, these theories seem to destroy the eschatological hope for that perfection and perpetuity of life beyond the grave in which we are reunited with loved ones and freed from the curses of sin and death.

Mae: Sin, brokenness, and separation from God's perfection are realities not only for us as individuals but for our communities as well.