Sentences with phrase «recognize human sin»
People scare atheists, yet they refuse to recognize human sin (instead blaming all evils on «religion»).
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Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).
> Recognizing some sins (as you say, murder) as worse (more damaging to oneself and others) than say, falling > off your diet, is not something one «loves» to «pick» as you say; but it does apply a measure of human ability and > accountability.
This Marxist proposal is too optimistic concerning human nature, for it fails to recognize the problem of sin as pride.
Even religions which teach that humans are basically good still recognize that we occassionally sin, and something must be done about this sin.
It is just as important for Christians to be discriminating in their judgments, as for them to recognize the element of sin in all human endeavors.
But it is, I have said, the chief instrumentality since it is the place where he is explicitly acknowledged as Lord, his purpose as sent from God recognized and accepted, even if not always (and this is our human sin) implemented in every respect.
Furthermore, while we need to recognize the gravity of our human propensity to sin, we need to balance this with the recognition (demonstrated so vividly by Jesus of Nazareth) that each and every human being has the ability to turn to God and to do good, that each and every human being is intrinsically worthy of love.
These movements were criticized in the further development of theology for their naive identification of Christianity with a social programme and their failure to recognize the limits set by sin to any human accomplishment.