Sentences with phrase «saw sin as»

[9] According to Richard Niebuhr, the Wesley brothers, founders of the Wesleyan movement, replaced the concept of the Reign of God with the symbol of heaven and saw sin as laxity and individual vice, not as oppression or social breakdown.

I see sin as transgression of law.

But you see sins as being normal or not so normal?

Not exact matches

Amazon avoiding a city like Austin or Atlanta could be seen as punishing a city for the sins of the state.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Dear friend that was beautiful wise full of light but will have to read it more to see the inner meanings of it... We look vertically as did Abraham looking for the Creator... While the Creator in the Quran told us that our means of subsistence and what we await are in heavens... But as well told us that if we disbelieve on what the Holy Books and the Quran came with we ought to look Horizontally as in Archeology for the nations that been mentioned and how the died for their sins and disbelief to the message or for humiliating the messengers...

So when Fishon see's a convicted pedophile, a convicted rapist, a convicted murderer... he also see's them as equals to a gay person... at least this is the crux of his debate (all sin is equal to him).

«Love the sinner — hate the sin» I thought was what Christianity pushed, but as we can see from this priest's actions Christianity is nothing more than hollow rhetoric when it comes to love and compassion.

This is great, but if you really want to see what what God's love looks like, look to Jesus dying on a cross for the sins of the world, including the sins of those who are whipping his back and legs until his skin is gone and then laying that back on a rough and splintery wooden cross to crucify him, and continuing the torture until he's unrecognizable as a human being.

As you can see here, the 1st of the 5 criteria fails, so It would therefore be an EVIL SIN for us to obey this mandate.

I see religion as simply an emotional crutch used in time of need and ignored (sins) when no support is needed.

Yet as I immerse myself in the world and spread Christ's love, I do not blithely ignore evil nor fail to see sin and death for what it truly is.

It's easy to see individual sins and their aggregate effect alienating people from one another and from God in Sandtown: shooting another human being or stealing to buy drugs are obvious as are landlords who won't deal with lead paint or officers who don't strap prisoners down in the van.

Many understand salvation as simply the forgiveness of sin; I see that simply as an aspect.

As John the Baptist said upon seeing Jesus: «Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!»

«Conservatives,» on the other hand, «must stop seeing contraception as a «sin.

Because God made us one, and sees us as one in Christ, we are all polluted if even one of our brethren remains in sin among us, and we are clearly talking about sin here.

So what is it about you that makes you see yourself as a lowly worm, as a sinning evil creature in need of saving from something, as someone who needs a deity to make all the rules for their lives?

nobody can can not live life without sin we make mistakes but we learn from them he or she allso saw that as humanbeings when we made mistakes.

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

I believe that as brothers and sisters in Christ if we see someone who's sin is hurting themselves and others it can be love that directs us to talk to them.

The fundamental issue with the generational disconnect here is that millenials see church members as completely willing to call out the sins of others, but lacking in humility, compassion and the outward appearance of spiritual growth themselves.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

It is only recently since men have began to so adamantly assert that moral relativism is the only moral absolute that culture has began to readily accept sin as being moral, and see what is moral as being sin.

Being apart from ethics, love, beauty... anything causing that can be seen as «sin».

So if God was not dealing with the sin issue (seeing as mankind returned to their wicked ways), it could easily appear like He is a mass murderer.

The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».

In the sufferings and death that Jesus willingly and humbly accepts we see the greatest act of love as he offers himself in atonement for the selfish sins of mankind.

On the other hand, it doesn't mean one hates homosexuals if they see it as a sin.

The Air you breath is One of the HOLYSPIRIT forms so ALL you have done in secret saying no one can see or hear me, HE has and HE is also known as the SPIRIT of TRUTH, all you religious leaders had time to repent for your sins against JESUS since 2005 you know when GOD THE FATHER exposed HIM in the flesh on Earth, the door is shut.

JUSUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS BECAUSE... NO BODY HERE SAW IT... as Judge Judy would say..

Whoever received grace to repent his sins and to trust unreservedly in God as seen in Christ was saved.

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.

Sin and the consequences of sin are seen as bad for us but not as an offense to a thrice holy GSin and the consequences of sin are seen as bad for us but not as an offense to a thrice holy Gsin are seen as bad for us but not as an offense to a thrice holy God.

To grant that Paul's use of «flesh» as the seat of sin was colored by contemporary Hellenism, however, is one thing, and to see Paul as in any important sense a Hellenist is quite another.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioAs I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioas well as heterodox, into the congregatioas heterodox, into the congregation.

In becoming a model, it has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship between God and human beings; if God is seen as father, human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

i think refusing to see another human as an equal is a sin, refusing to acknowledge that children are small versions of adults and have a lot of insight on things is a sin... but loving another of the same gender isn't a sin, it's love.

Logically, he would discover God there, and he did not feel the need to make a transition from the ideal to the cosmological order, for the latter was seen as the region of sin, contingency and error, and hence quite irrelevant.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

So when we come to the reason for the Incarnation we see it as fundamentally to fulfil human nature irrespective of sin.

To people who saw Jesus as God incarnate and / or as the required unblemished sacrifice to atone for our sins, it may have been both necessary and believable that he was perfect.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

I'll focus on your problem with the word evil (as for the eastern stuff, I'm aware that try see it as a sickness, but there is also an acknowledgement of human sin and evil.

It's so much easier to dismiss sins that aren't seen as opposed to those that are, I suppose.

And so far as we understand that the whole of Christ's work is a work of liberation — of our liberation from sin, death, concupiscence, fatality (and from ourselves)-- we shall see that violence is not simply an ethical option for us to take or leave.

Luther saw the wrath of God at work in the fact that we as sinners can not fulfill any of God's commands without at the same time entrapping ourselves in sin.

The power to bind and loose, conferred on all the apostles jointly and to Peter in particular (Matthew 16:19) is seen in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authority to absolve sins, to pronounce judgments on doctrine and to make decisions on Church discipline.