Sentences with phrase «sin nature makes»

Responding to the kind of theology that suggests hurricanes and earthquakes and school shootings happen because an angry God has lost his temper and is unleashing his wrath and discipline on people whose sin nature makes them incapable of understanding such actions as loving, Kat R. writes:

Not exact matches

God made me gay... it would be a sin for me to try to go against my God - given nature!

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

Sin has made it so very, very hard for us, but no other law of truth can be given to our nature simply because it is fallen.

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

we are born with a nature of sin, that which is unlike God, hence, Jesus tells Nicodemus, «You must be born again», even going so far as to make a distinction between that which is flesh and that which is spirit.

«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.»

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

No attributing to nature, survival of the fittest or any other rationalization will make this reality of sin go away.

There were choices in my life that I chose to make, and there were circumstances that helped my sin nature to divulge into partcipating in the sin.

Also there is such a thing as the flesh which is our own sinful nature that makes us sin.

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

Despite the popular notion that the church identifies sex with sin, the genuinely Christian view of human nature makes no such statement.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

John Cobb, too, has discussed aspects of the nature of man, such as freedom, responsibility, and sin, from a Whiteheadian point of view.151 Like existentialism, he writes, process thought makes subjective categories central to the analysis of man, and it understands subjectivity to be «in a very important sense causa sui,» that is, self - determinative.

Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.

Liberal theology has always tended to obscure the nature of sin while Neo-orthodoxy has not made clear how redemption actually makes any difference in this life in this world.

But I think I would prefer to say that our nature, but not his, is stained by sin; it is not destroyed, just made ugly, irreversably — except of course by that best of all stain removers, the blood of Jesus.

Just as God, who is ever and by nature sinless and can not sin, comes to the sinful world because he loves it, so the saint goes into the world because the holiness of God has made him real and overflows his humanity into human fellowship.

From another perspective if satan was his father it is to easy to apportion the blame to him i couldnt help it as my father is satan the truth is every one of us has sinned and fallen short and so we are responsible for our actions just the same as Cain.The devil did nt make him do it he influenced his evil thoughts no doubt but the decision to kill his brother was his alone.Its the same arguement because of my parents because of my upbringing i couldnt help myself we all need to take responsibility for our own actions.If we are honest we choose to sin because we like to sin that is our nature our hearts are deceitfully wicked.Whats the answer repent and submit yourselves to God so that he can give us new hearts that do nt want to sin but want to please God.brentnz

The effects of the first human sin would actually be analogous to a terrible earthquake, devastating human nature and making man's place in Nature insnature and making man's place in Nature insNature insecure.

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

That is a claim that I've never heard anyone make: «My New nature is incapable of making mistakes and sinning».

My New nature is incapable of making mistakes and sinning (Romans 7 & 8) So ultimately God Living in me does not sin or make mistakes.

My emotional nature was stirred to its depths; confessions of depravity and pleading with God for salvation from sin made me oblivious of all surroundings.

Christ is sinned against, I believe, when anything less than this universal, complete love is made central, either to God's nature and purpose, or to man's nature and destiny.

Here Niebuhr makes full use of Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of sin, and then brilliantly examines the actual way in which men estimate their own good and power and that of others.

This is made apparent during a scene in which the patriarch's son questions sin nature, only to be harshly silenced by his father for daring to doubt his father's beliefs.

Knowing I have a sin nature and that nature is as capable as anyone with that nature to do evil makes us equals - the only difference between me and anyone not a Christian is the bold of Christ - on that principle we meet learn the Word and doctrine and if need be share our pain and temptations and learn to trust God and each other.

All Christians know, of course, that it is through God's self - outpouring upon the cross that we are saved, and that we are made able by grace to participate in Christ's suffering; but this should not obscure that other truth revealed at Easter: that the incarnate God enters «this cosmos» not simply to disclose its immanent rationality, but to break the boundaries of fallen nature asunder, and to refashion creation after its ancient beauty» wherein neither sin nor death had any place.

Though it is popular to say that God can do whatever He wants, God can not do what is logically impossible (such as make a round square), do anything that violates His own nature (such a sin), or do anything that goes against something He has already decided and determined (such as give humans free will).

We seek to love and be loved but original and actual sin has made it much more difficult to follow the promptings of our spiritual nature, the soul, to seek our own true good.

The Godless Monster is right, people try and influence, control, manipulate, ect in every area of life when they have a position of authority, thats human nature, or the sin nature of man if you like.Because the church has a lot of organisation, its a hot bed of oppitunity for people with ideas or assperations to lead or control to position themselves, and once there become protective of their role, it gives them a voice.You will find them in schools, governments, offices, everywhere.IT really makes no difference if it christian or athiest place, its people being people

So natural has sin become to him, or sin has so become his second nature, that he finds the daily continuance quite a matter of course, and it is only when by a new sin he acquires as it were new headway that for an instant he is made aware.

But Paul makes it perfectly clear that we can overcome that inherent sin nature through Christ.

So i have to simplify it down to what i KNOW: 1) nature shows me there is a God 2) totally makes sense that He would have to come here Himself as one of His own creation and let the sin kill him so that Life could be reborn, and 3) I feel powerful love for fellow humanoids.

Through painting, video, collage, sculpture, performance and installation by huber.huber, Manuel Mathieu, Mark Salvatus, Rachel McCrae, Victoria Sin, Omer Even - Paz, and a lecture - performance by Alex Anikina, Will Nature Make A Man of Me Yet?