Sentences with phrase «sin against his neighbor»

Because when we sin against our neighbor, we also sin against God, we need to receive this forgiveness from him.

Implicit biblical support for democracy does not come from happy idealism about every man's worth or his capacity for sound judgment, rather, it flows from sober realism about every man's tendency to sin against his neighbor if he can get away with it.

Since God is present in the neighbor, all sins, including those against the neighbor, are also sins against God, And since Christians usually retain the moral but not the ritual elements of Torah, it is hard to imagine a sin against God (in a Christian view) that is not also a sin against some neighbor.

Not exact matches

If it is true (a) that all people are sinners and (b) that sin is not just an annoying inconvenience to one's neighbors but also a damnable outrage against our just God and (c) that God «desires all men to be saved» (I Tim.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

Thomas Aquinas, the most outstanding of Catholic theologians, gave three succinct arguments why suicide is a sin against self, neighbor and God.

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

So to reprimand anyone for commending Buddhist humanism is definitly not loving thy neighbor, but you are sinning by using harsh words against those who are trying to love their brothers.

During the Days of Awe before Yom Kippur, Jews are reminded that God can forgive those sins that we commit against him, but that we must seek forgiveness from our human neighbors for the violations we enact against them.

That doctrine, substitutionary atonement, can be summarized this way: We are guilty of sin against God and our neighbors.