Sentences with phrase «sees sin quite»

That is, God had to make us capable of evil, so that in our wretchedness he could show us the power of a love that sees sin quite realistically, but wipes it away and gives us to share in his own power of loving.

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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.

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.

Quite surprisingly to Western ears, recent polls show that most Russians today do not believe that it is alright to criticize the Church hierarchy or the Church in general; some even see it as a sin.

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

With this understanding, following (Blaise) Pascal, we may see ourselves drawn quite personally into the episode on the Mount of Olives: my own sin was present in that terrifying chalice.

Christ is seen as the final meaning of creation, quite independently of sin.

I declined, recalling that the last time I went out west to Sin City, I «misplaced» five hours of my life (people I was drinking with said I was quite the sight to see at 4:00 AM).