Sentences with phrase «problem of sin»

They leave us unchanged and the real human problem of sin, death, and the devil unaddressed.

Such a distinction has, as a matter of fact, been drawn by Ernst Fuchs «What is still lacking for Jesus is now supplemented as a consequence of Jesus cross: the problem of sin expands to the problem of death as a whole.

What I love about this is, the awesome thought that blood was shed in this case to birth something rather than in the second instance to supposedly fix the problem of sin.

Because Jesus came to the earth to solve the problem of SIN.

When the problem of sin is solved, then all other problems will follow.

Irenacus did not blunt the hard texts of Scripture by moralisms and allegory, nor did he resort to the naivet6 of Pelagianism, imagining that the problems of sin and death can be overcome by good works.

This Marxist proposal is too optimistic concerning human nature, for it fails to recognize the problem of sin as pride.

It completely deals with the problem of sin, both its penalty and its power.

The problem of sin must be dealt with from God's side (justice) and from our side (justification / forgiveness).

In his great work On the Incarnation, Athanasius articulated the manner in which Jesus Christ overcame both the problem of sin and the consequence of sin — death — through his incarnation, life, death, and resurrection.

He himself is the answer to the problem of sin, worship, and the character of God.

He is specifically cited in Reformation arguments, especially by Calvin, and both Luther and Calvin recognized that the themes they emphasized as the essential gospel had been stressed earlier by Augustine: the universality and depth of the problem of sin; the consequent incapacity of even the «best» persons to follow the law commanding inward love, the possibility of salvation — of escaping condemnation and of gaining blessedness — through God's grace alone.

If we care for men we must wrestle with the problem of sin.

One might paraphrase Rauschenbusch by saying that «the problem of sin is that it is profitable.»

According to Niebuhr, Rome can not solve the problem of sin because it will not admit its own proud pretensions.

Well, for you, and for me, I think the most helpful thing to realize is that we'll never wrap our heads around the problem of sin.

The problem of sin is massive and minute.

An overwhelming sense of sin therefore takes possession of the religious man; his thought struggles with the problem of sin.

Earlier in chapter 2 we saw the problem of sin, but God stepped in and provided a solution — justification by grace through faith.

In either case, revelation is necessary to know this.25 The act - being relation for «being in Adam» is the problem of sin.

Why did they think that blood could solve the problem of sin?

The problem of sin is still present with Christians, as real as when they were unsaved.

I broached this matter with Colbert when I observed that Christians «attack the problem of sin» while Buddhists «try to deal with the problem of suffering.»

This is an overview (similar to Augustine's theodicy) of how sin and suffering entered the world and how God solved the problem of sin through Jesus.