Sentences with phrase «sinful because»

Wigg - Stevenson insists that all nuclear weapons are «un-justifiable» and sinful because they are categorically indiscriminate and therefore fail the jus en bello requirement of noncombatant immunity.

No, I do NOT see you as sinful because of «the suffering and pain» you face.

It is part of the social Gospel that thinks all mans search for Justice and peace in society can be found in the Bible, yet the truth is, all societies are sinful because it is in the very cry for justice that sins arise, much of the time.

Enns skillfully dismantles some of the common responses to these passages — that the Canaanites were super-duper evil and therefore deserved to be exterminated, that war with the Canaanites was inevitable, that God's bloodthirsty portrait in Joshua is balanced out by more flattering portraits elsewhere in Scripture, that questioning biblical accounts of God - ordained genocide is sinful because God can do whatever God wants to do, etc — before offering his own controversial, yet well - argued, conclusion: «God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites.

If war in general is to be seen as sinful because it risks the triumph of chaos over shalom, then nuclear war must be the ultimate sin — representing the absolute triumph of chaos and the end of all possibility for wholeness and well - being.

In church people are repeatedly taught not to sin and not to do things that might be consider bad or sinful because if they do they will be judged for it.

Deriding the method - as you have done - of how one reaches God's grace - is in and of itself - sinful because you super impose that you understand the enormity of God's grace... You are not God... Go back to your Church and ask.

Prostitution is sinful because it degrades the woman into an object of sexual lust and is by definition is a promiscuous activity.

Not exact matches

Listen: sinful men are dying, and they can't hear the Gospel because we are afraid that we are going to mistakenly tell them that God is going to do something for them that He is not going to do.

At the root of all these debates is the mistaken belief that gays and lesbians choose to be gay for willy nilly sinful reasons, and not because this is who they are at the get go.

By the way Scott, if you read the Bible you will see that social problems will never be solved, because man is sinful, and can not fix the world.

XAV — «Christ himself was baptized to show us that we all need baptism, even he needed baptism not because he was sinful or needed sins removed but to give us an example of what we need to do on this earth, and not only did he get baptized but he did it at the hands of john the baptist who held the authority to baptize at that time.»

Too, some people leave the church because they choose to engage in practices that are sinful or harmful.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

I believe that I was born into a filthy, sinful world and I have a Representative that will speak on my behalf because I have accepted Him as my Savior.

You will not enter heaven because you are sinful.

As «Faithful Citizenship» clearly says, it is a sinful cooperation with evil to vote for someone because he is pro-abortion.

Those who commit wicked deeds do so because it is within their hearts to do so — it is their natural, unredeemed, sinful nature.

That is the fundamental message of Christianity - John 3:16 ------------------------ Yeah, the blame rests on us because we are all sinful, but you must also understand that although there is a general responsibility that rests on the shoulders of all men, there is also a specific responsibility held by those who were directly responsible for specific sins, even though they were ordained of God.

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

And no I am not stating that just because something is present in the bible it is not sinful.

Gay people commit suicide because their sinful lifestyle is too much for any human being.

I could respond to this uncomfortable admission because I, too, knew what it was to feel sinful and awkward in the presence of a loving God.

In Ephesians 1:7 and Ephesians 2; 13 we learn that we have redemption through the blood of Jesus because He redeemed us from our sinful and violent way of living and revealed to us God's way of living.

The reason God doesn't give a rip about them is because He has established parameters in which s e xu al acts are a wonderful thing and parameters in which they are sinful.

This is absolutely not because there is anything necessarily sinful about marriage but because of Holloway's firm grasp that there are degrees of loving.

What you need to know to understand where that was coming from is that Christine is married to a woman (me, actually) and so when she said that, because of her gender, she would expect Brigitte to say that her life was loveless and godless, she was referring to many previous discussions with Brigitte who believes homosexual relationships to be sinful.

Aw there was no need for them to pray that prayer because sinful living has its own consequences we creat the hurt and pain on ourselves when we chose to live life the way we want to.Personally i think the prayer was misdirected however there hearts were in the right place because they wanted the best for you.God is not like us he does nt want to punish he wants to forgive and to heal and love us even when we are sinners.I am thankful that you chose to follow the Lord and he forgives you for the things in your past because he loves and has always loved you because he created you brentnz

Ok, so adults are all wicked and sinful and deserve to suffer sickness, violence, and starvation because they have willfully sinned against God, but what about the little children?

No Christian has a reason to be proud, because his sinful body remembers him of his past daily.

Speaking from within my theological tradition, you do not stop being sinful just because you do something good.

Christian politicians (if there are any left) should not support any person, group, agenda or movement that promotes a sinful lifestyle, because quite frankly every sinful lifestyle leads to things not beneficial to society (crime, violence, scams, breakdown of the family, etc.).

I've always been so afraid of their arguments... and now I wonder more and more if that was because I knew that in my «heart of hearts» I was inclined to believe them, which was sinful and bad and a one - way ticket to hell....

In other words, you're incapable of understanding the «truth» of their doctrines because you're working with a sinful, carnal mind, rather than a spiritual one.

If it can be said that the Church is a sinful Church because of the sins of her members (cf. Decree on Ecumenism, arts. 3 and 4), even though this sin contradicts her own nature and spirit, then we must attribute ecclesial importance even more to the good, inspired acts, hence also to all the prayers, of her members.

Bad things happen to us because we live in a sinful world; not because God has withdrawn His love from us.

We should treat each other as such, but we find this difficult, because we are sinful, self - opinionated and presumptuous human beings.

Because this sin is part of human nature, we speak of original sin, that is, a sinful quality in our lives that is deeper than particular sins.

Obviously, some people do need correction because they are obviously leading a sinful lifestyle.

The diocesan structures which allow lethargic and uncommitted priests to occupy important pastorates because of seniority alone are sinful.

I searched because Christianity insisted I was sinful and totally beholden to God, as interpreted by the priest class, and that I was nothing without religion.

If, just because it wasn't invented yet, homosexuality isn't sin, then would you say that internet identity theft, or internet pornography is not sinful?

James realizes that the faithful must be confronted by it, that the perception of Catholic Church in the public forum is irrevocably changed because of it, and that he himself needs to make reparations on the part of sinful humanity.

Gay marriage is impossible (from a Christian perspective) because nothing ordained by God can be ordained toward a sinful end.

Humanity is sinful and deserving of condemnation, yet God loves us and didn't want to punish us for our sins because in doing so we would be destroyed and separated from him forever, «8but (A) God shows his love for us in that (B) while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.»

One is not excluded from any church because they have been sinful.

6:6; Eph.4: 22; Col. 3:9)-RSB- having two natures, good and evil, because of Adam's and Eve's sin, that is, fallen / corrupted / sinful mankind is now bi-natured having two natures [a good nature and an evil / sin nature (Gen. 2:16 - 17; Gen. 3:1 - 7; Rom.

Back then He didn't have to speak about g a ys because it was understood to ALL Je ws that Ho mo behavior was immoral and sinful.

He came because God loved mankind, but because we are ALL born sinners and can't approach a holy, pure God in our sinful state, Jesus had to come to die so that His innocent blood might act as a shield to cover us and make us acceptable to God again Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, John 3:16.

There is no lust in christ but just an infinite source of the love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness of our present being.God designed woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of christ.