Sentences with phrase «reality of sin»

Thus every adequate theology must deal with the deadly power and awful reality of sin.

It is the spiritual reality of our sin, created by it as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended for us to go to, to the point of total self - sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self - made doom.

It expressed an awareness of the majesty of God and of the terrible reality of sin (pondus peccati).

From a black theology perspective, the primary ethical message announces the love of God in light of the daily reality of sin, the mystery of evil, and suffering in the world.

Instead, we use the sober reality of sin to point out the sins of others and decry how ill the world has fallen.

If human history has really been a history of genocide, rape and war, then that fact itself bespeaks a formidable reality of sin and fallenness.

We must take a clear view of the medical realities of disease and the spiritual realities of sin, but it makes a difference in the pastor's understanding of all human ills that he sees every person as created for a life of love to God and his neighbor.

The «easier way», however, fails to recognise the reality of sin and the violence it has done to the Kingdom of God.

Once Christ's radical acceptance eased their resistance, he made them aware of their motivations and the reality of their sin through careful questions.

The dialectics of idealism denies the reality of sin and evil, the demonic and the satanic forces that penetrate all the structures of life.

This being the onset of the season of Lent ¯ when Christians think especially on the reality of sin in their lives ¯ I thought I would offer a string of quotations from Newman appropriate to this season now begun, a catena, as it were, of «edifying discourses» from a master at homiletical brilliance.

This is not to minimize the reality of sin or tragedy, nor is it to buy into some new utopian delusion.

Lutherans throw themselves as radically as they do on God's grace because they know as intensely as they do the reality of sin — sin not simply or even essentially as concession to the passions but as fundamental alienation from the will of God.

No attributing to nature, survival of the fittest or any other rationalization will make this reality of sin go away.

Second, Jesus believed in the reality of sin, the need for repentance, and a real hell where people weep and gnash their teeth.

On the contrary, he is just barely able to acknowledge that far deadlier evil called apathy: the failure even to register the reality of sin and grace.

An important reason for the chaos and meaningless of much of present - day life is the lack of any clear grasp of the reality of sin in its subtler forms.

This means, I would explain, that «the afterlife for us will mean doing things» — solving problems, taking on challenges, actively serving God without being plagued by the realities of sin.

3) The reality of sin and its effects is a major theme of the Bible.

Being who you want to be outside of God's plan for your life means you will be crushed under the reality of sin.

That is a clear prove for the reality of sin.

That means we have been brought by him into a community where the reality of sin is acknowledged, and where we may learn to love one another because we are grateful for what the love of God has done for us.

The whole approach of Our Faith Story Here I Am and Weaving the Web lacks a serious catechesis on the reality of sin and, in particular, the damage of original sin with which each person is born.

In an unfallen world it would always have been welcomed with joy, but the reality of sin means that it is most often heard either with a sadness borne of honesty that leads to repentance and peace, or else by a shrug of dismissive indifference and then by bitter and angry rejection — well, the Lord spoke frankly about the lethal danger that lay down that road!

For in addition to its humor and artistic virtuosity, In Bruges is an impressive meditation upon the reality of sin and sin's wages, upon final judgment, and upon the possibility of redemption and redemption's price.

Neo-orthodoxy has recovered for us a profound analysis of the reality of sin and the need of redemption.

Yet this must not be allowed to vitiate the reality of sin.

The events in Ferguson — including the death of Michael Brown, riots, excessive force, and outside agitation — remind us about the reality of sin and its effects.

We have a really great conversation happening on Facebook this week regarding the reality of sin and the use of the word «broken.»

But the «Catholic» hope for Christian politics always acknowledged the reality of sin, too; and Tinder's more vigorous rejection of political hope may be a useful antidote to secular optimism even if it is not (as I think it is not) a true statement of human possibilities.

Because of the reality of sin the cross is an essential part of who Christ is.

More and more, as he brooded over the realities of sin and death, he sensed the hopelessness of his state apart from grace.

Such a position deals both with the ultimate worth of individuals and the reality of sin in individuals and their institutions and political and economic structures.

But the «Catholic» hope for Christian politics always acknowledged the reality of sin, too; and Tinder's more vigorous rejection of political hope may be a useful antidote to secular optimism even if it is not (as I think his not) a true statement of human possibilities.

Every conceivable aspect of the reality of sin, which could be made explicit only in an infinite series of theses and experiences, is implicit in the symbolism of the myth of the Fall.

This does not mean that we downplay the reality of sin and the importance of the cross, far from it, but we think that it is only by understanding the cosmic significance of the Incarnation that we can understand the full drama and measure of redemption.

Rather God's justice means that he can not simply ignore the reality of sin.

Such realism does not mean passing over the reality of sin, the evil in the human heart, or the inexplicable tragedy of the suffering in creation.

King victorious, he is called Saviour, King as our Redeemer, the one who won back his own inheritance, and rescued us from our powerlessness to overcome the realities of sin, ignorance, and death.

Not that John was indifferent to or naïve about the reality of sin, nor that we would want to deny that human sin is a factor in the apparent paradox he presents.

Such a notion takes very seriously the reality of sin and judgment.

These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby giving it genuine theological meaning.

To deny the reality of our sin is to deny God's saving action in Christ and the love of God that sent Christ into the world.

It was at least the reality of sin, traditionally a weak point of process optimism — a defect under continued discussion by, for example, Marjorie Suchocki, in many ways Cobb's heir as a leader of process thought.

And not only with Don: The second - season character arc for Peggy Olsen, Don's protege, is dominated by her conservative Catholic mother and a liberal priest both trying to confront her with the reality of sin and steer her off its path.