Sentences with phrase «rather than sin»

It is clear the author wants us to understand this state of repentance in this context from the perspective of turning from the dead works, rather than sin itself, otherwise he would not have explained the falling away and the importance of leaving the Levitical law in such detail.

Due to this Scotist position, Franciscans would credit their theology of the Incarnation as being based on love rather than sin.

Déjà vu was a merit rather than a sin.

Not exact matches

The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many of the recurring themes of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life, death... Adding to the intimacy level, many of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.

Antinomianism is heresy that tells Christians it's OK to forget about God's law and concentrate solely on agape love... a course which is a justification for degeneration and immoral licence, rather than promoting the true Christian liberty (i.e. freedom from sin to serve God and our fellows).

Animals, as you know, do not sin, so for you, being godless is your choice to become animal like rather than a child of God.

Rather than viewing it as a sign of sin or mistrust, let's view it as a temporary messenger, designed to slow us down and reorient our minds, bodies and souls towards the peace and the freedom that Christ promised.

Looking at addiction as «sin» hasn't done mankind very much good for almost two thousand years; treating addiction — and other mental illnesses — as sickness rather than as moral failings or demonic possession has a much better track record, and it took less than 150 years to get there.

That is largely the result of a soteriology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing [mankind created in the image of God with the potential for aquiring «godlikeness» over time through cooperation with Grace].

A systematic theology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing can not be reconciled with the witness of Jesus to God as recorded in the Gospels.

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.

Rather than be infected by sin, sin is infected by the holiness of Jesus.

Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the human rather than Divine action.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

Christians whose anthropology is defined by Original Sin rather than Original Blessing will always have a pessimistic view of people and life in general.

Here, the salvation is of the spiritual kind, rather than the salvation from physical enemies, because of the mention of sins in Luke 1:77.

The most innovative gesture in Jones's feminist remap - ping of sin is her linking sin to the eschatologically oriented doctrines of sanctification and justification rather than to creation, as many of her feminist predecessors have done.

Rather than releasing a woman from her bondage to sin, Luther's courtroom drama recapitulates the very dynamics of her oppression — the «shattering she knows all too well.»

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

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.

The trouble with the common translation, in the pope's reading, is that it pictures God pushing us toward sin rather than pulling us away.

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

... All I know is MY GOD tells me that «VENGENCE IS MNE, SAYITH THE LORD»... and... «Those without sin should throw the first stone»... I guess these hillbilly fake Christians would rather tick off MY GOD than have love and peace intheir hearts.

And since practicing righteousness, avoiding sin, and loving God and others are all results of being born again, rather than conditions to it, it seems that faith also must be a result of being born again, rather than a condition of it.

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.

Christians might be better served looking to Christ for an example and examining their own lives for what their faith calls sin, rather than wasting time chasing the sin of others, even if only in prayer.

Rather than seeing sin eradication as a series of don'ts and self - inflicted hand slaps, our time and energy is better spent, and more effective, when we focus on what we can do.

I am sorry for the ways I have sinned against you because of how God made you, rather than rejoicing in His design.

Hence it is sin, rather than matter as such, which is the cause of corruption and death.

Christ is the masterpiece of love in the midst of a creation designed for love, rather than a divine plumber come to fix the mess of original sin.

Rather than concerning itself with specific «sins,» the Emmanuel approach focused attention on the underlying causes of these symptoms — namely, the sick personality.

(Judges 10:9 - 10) At the first, therefore, penitence was a public rather than a private matter, and the sense of sin concerned the violated customs of the social group rather than the inner quality of the individual.

There is perhaps also more emphasis on what Christians might through the grace of Christ become, rather than on the legacy of past sin, whether inherited or original or actual sin.

However why anyone would make a thing out of homosexual orientation being wicked and the cause of natural disasters rather than anything else which can more obviously be determined «sin» is prejudice beyond reason.

Too often we focus upon the depth of our repentance rather than the depth of Gods love in rescuing us all, I read recently that repentance is not as much about saying sorry and turning from sin as it is recognizing what it cost God to save us and that he was the one who took the initiative and not us.

But Luther said, «No, sin man curved inward toward himself rather than outward toward God.»

Rather than looking at suffering and sin as horrible and detestable things, we can celebrate that Jesus is ready and willing to meet us in the midst of them.

* The Catholic scholastics taught that sin was man turned downward toward the earth rather than upward toward God.

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

I love Jesus and I do feel that he had died for each and everyone of our sins and I feel we are all loved equally no matter what we do rather it be for murder to just plain old coursing He loves us all honestly I've debated in my mind that if Christianity is about being mean hateful and thinking that you're going around better than everybody then that's not the religion for me

Furthermore, ideas such as death and resurrection in pagan religions usually related to the crop cycle rather than the idea of a god dying to pay for someone's sins.

They as people are no different than another but in the acceptance of sin and the propagation of it rather than conforming to the Bible would seek to transform everything to their likening.

If we evolved from the lower primates, then when we reached the stage of reflection and conscious choice (when the image of God entered into that line of primates), we made the decision to «sin» — to dominate and to kill in order to serve our own ends, rather than to follow the call of that «image of God» which had entered into the human creature.

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

For it is premised on the conviction — fictionally adumbrated rather than overtly stated — that the God who sits in his heavens and laughs our folly to scorn is first and finally the God of grace who, in Jesus Christ, humorously accepts and thus transforms our sin into the occasion for his mercy.

Rather than let man suffer eternal sparation God made a way by taking on the penality of sin himself.

Religious leaders, it seems, are threatened by people who would rather love on a person than threaten and condemn them for their sin.

In both the Gospel of John and 1 John, the usage of sin in connection to death and life seems to always refer to eternal / spiritual death, rather than physical death.

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

He believed that his doctrine of original sin was but a commentary on Paul's thought, such as in Romans 1:24 - 25: «Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.»