Sentences with phrase «powerful than sin»

Paul, without denying the likelihood that some sinners will die without sufficient repentance, teaches that the grace of Christ is more powerful than sin: «Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more» (Romans 5:20).

Christ teaches that chastity is possible, even in difficult cases because God's grace is more powerful than sin.3 Chastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprivation.

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Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Sin - talk proves to be enabling rather than debilitating discourse; it invokes a «powerful sense of hope» that animates women's agency in the world.

So since this is the most powerful of the prayers god uses, other than being called out on sins that need repenting how is this prayer dangerous and going to ruin our lives?

And because of that, the only way that you can make your fleshly version of the gospel work is to say that you will always be a practicing sinner, because you either have no plans to leave certain sins, and / or have believed the lie that those sins will always be more powerful than the body, and blood of Yahshua, so you say that they can not be overcome.

It is like saying that there is a sin more powerful than the Lord's forgiveness, and in turn saying that a sin is more powerful than God.

So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.

The fact is that your faith makes no sense — you belive that a god came down and died for our sins, that he was all powerful (so could not die), and that he still lives (hence no real sacrifice anyway)-- this is utter nonsense and anyone with an IQ greater than 50 should realize it!

To say that God can not look upon sin is to say that sin can defeat and defile God; that sin is more powerful than the righteous holiness of God!

Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she'd ever expected, rooted in the house's long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder.