Sentences with phrase «profound sense of guilt»

Corresponding to this somewhat indefinite and higher conscience there is inevitably a more profound sense of guilt, stemming from the recognition of sin not against society but against God.

The use of this penal and sacrificial imagery reflects the early church's profound sense of guilt, and its knowledge, which seemed to have come to it by way of the spectacle of Christ's sufferings, that the forgiveness which it now enjoyed, although given freely had not been given lightly.

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It is characteristic of the worship of the post-Exilic temple, therefore, that the two forms of sacrifice added to the rubric were the trespass - and the guilt - offerings, both expiations of sin, and that, in general, the sense of public guilt in the later Old Testament is poignant and profound.

Guilt can lead to a profound sense of shame.