Sentences with phrase «redemption over sin»

There is the cross of Christ which is the price of redemption over sin and spiritual death.

Not exact matches

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

There is also much of the Word that suggests (perhaps vaguely and mysteriously) that this redemption will be complete (not partial; which would suggest the power of sin, Satan or death will win out over the majority).

Man was created by God originally to be immortal in both body and soul, but because of his sin he was declared mortal.44 It was necessary for God to decree the dissolution of the body so that «sin might be altogether destroyed from the very roots».45 God's plan of the redemption of man involved a complete remodeling, so that what had been handed over to death should be rescued for eternity.