Sentences with phrase «rather than sinners»

It was thought that he would embark on a comprehensive probe of past administrations and appoint only untainted individuals, or saints rather than sinners into his government.

2:27, to those who are Jews by nature rather than sinners out of the nations in Gal.

start using your brain Nii rather than what you have been told about a myth... you have no evidence and never will have... start looking at folks as human beings with potential rather than sinners and devils... its just a little childish.

Rather than a sinner.

Rather than the sinner being captured by God's forgiveness in Christ through the regular ministrations of the Church and so being grasped by religion, revivalism insists that the sinner «gets religion.»

We should condemn the sin rather than the sinner, although justice rightly seeks legal punishment where required.

Not exact matches

When taken seriously with its full pastoral implications, it will encourage a merciless, rather than merciful, pastoral approach to repentant sinners.

Rather than helping sinners find redemption, subjectivist laxity locks them into their personal suffering.

That cartoon may be theologically correct, but many of the fundamentalists that I have met are more interested in seeing those that they judge to be «sinners» go to hell rather than heaven to satisfy their concept of Divine justice.

I'd rather hang with the sinners than the saints in churches because the sinners know how to have fun.

Ezekiel Garragut imagines God as a fierce force rather like himself, a dark diviner of souls who delights less in rewarding the pure with bliss eternal than in sinking sinners in an excremental hell.

Is that not what we should do, rather than condemn them, judge them and label them as «sinners»?

Then again, Jesus would probably be hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and all the others who don't quite fit the mold of what a good Christian should be, rather than sitting in a booth at the mall debating religion and theology with the religious types.

Since the fall of Adam, all men are sinners in that their very wills are corrupt, and they desire to glorify themselves rather than God, and in so doing, all of humanity is destined for hell.

Instead, Dante uses irony to undercut the alluring words of sinners who present themselves as victims rather than as perpetrators of outrage in the eyes of God.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

Catholics generally prefer to write about sinners rather than saints.

His holiness took him to meeting with public sinners or the unpopular such as tax collectors, rather than to shunning them.

I really feel for those who are struggling with adultery and it seems the reoccuring question is the same.Will God forgive me if i have committed adultery and the answer is yes we all are sinners and we all have sinned no sin is worse than the other to God.If you are feeling bad because for what you have done then it is the holy spirit drawing you to him repent and turn from your sin.God wants all of us to draw near to him to get our hearts right to stop making the same mistakes over and over again.If you feel weak he gives the strength to deal with it rather than trying sort it out on our own.He forgives us because he loves us but we may have to bear the consequence of our sin like David and his family suffered for his choices regarding his affair with bathsheba but God forgave him for his sin.

One needs a little power before one can recognize one's true identity: a sinner who can be forgiven, rather than a victim who can protest.

He brought the sinner into the community, rather than pushing them further out.

To speak glowingly about the Church apparently means for Mr. Benne to believe that the Church is composed of «shining knights in the Kingdom of God» rather than «bands of forgiven sinners.»

They also assume that it is the other person who is the sinner rather than themselves.

Janet i think what you have said is quite insightful and you are right and there is another meaning to Go and sin no more and that speaks to me of repentence making a decision to Follow Christ the one who saves.The words Go and sin no more is referring to a continual ongoinging process of living for Christ rather than dying in our sins daily there is no comparison.I thought that was awesome pointing the law back to all of us for we all have sinned and the judgement is death but Jesus came that we might have life in its fullness.Many people only see the adulterer when she portrays who we are as sinners that he came to save all of us sin is sin and the punishment is death so again you are quite right people use the scriptures to judge and that was never Jesus intention.I hope that helps when someone uses that scripture incorrectly and you can you use it like Jesus did to point it back at those who judge i hope that helps.brentnz

The Church is its Lord's Church, and as He seemed to enjoy the company of confessed sinners rather than of professed righteous men, so the Church, as His Body, does the same.

Above all, the group is very much a hospital for sinners rather than a hotel for saints.

In a recent interview, the rapper said that the church should be a place that welcomes sinners rather than judges them.

Pastoral counselors and counselees are rediscovering that understanding oneself as a sinner rather than as a sick person may be the essential element in moving toward health.

«It seemed eminently natural, accordingly, to the ancient Hebrew,» writes Professor Paton, «that Yahweh should deal with the group rather than the individual, and should bring the punishment of the sinner, or the reward of the righteous, upon his family, his clan, or his nation, rather than upon himself.»

Those within the Church, as much as those outside it, seemed to suspect his death was one of a sinner rather than a saint.

To quote the prophet Billy Joel: «I'd rather laugh with the sinners / Than cry with the saints.»

This new belief in the Devil is such an integral part of the Reformation discovery that if the reality of the powers inimical to God is not grasped, the incarnation of Christ, as well as the justification and temptation of the sinner, are reduced to ideas of the mind rather than experiences of faith.

«They say there's a heaven for those who'll wait Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints THE SINNERS ARE MUCH MORE FUN Only the good die young.sinners than cry with the saints THE SINNERS ARE MUCH MORE FUN Only the good die young.SINNERS ARE MUCH MORE FUN Only the good die young.»

It focuses on how we are all sinners, and we all deserve punishment, but God is so loving that he would rather suffer Himself in the form of Jesus Christ than have us suffer.

Mr. Darling should perhaps stick to saving sinners rather than produching the banter he did with this article.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners, than cry with the saints.

Rather than go into length about how Dying: Sinner Escape isn't very good, I have instead chosen to address the lofty statements they made about the game.