Not exact matches
-- Offer support FIRST to those
who have suffered the abuse that stemmed from or
was abetted by troublesome theology (whether it
be formal volunteering, donating money or goods or even just validating that a victim
is not crazy, not
sinful and
is a worth
human being and that their abuser
was in the wrong.
Character
is always vulnerable to those
who would wound it with false or malicious words; hence, the ninth Word of the Lord speaks to the destructive tongues residing inside the heads of insecure and
sinful human beings: «You shall not bear false witness.»
The revolutionary
is one
who cuts himself off from the
sinful past of the
human race in a movement of «repentance» that leads to the setting up of another closed - up, unfree sphere of existence.
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.
The job then
was at best merely external and mechanical, never the work of a participant, of one
who shared our lot,
who understood our
sinful state, and
who demonstrated the power of God to overcome it in actual
human life.
Terrible
sinful people
who are not even deserving of their «equal rights» as
human beings.
The congregation
is made up of men and women
who are finite,
sinful human beings, yet also endowed with unrealized creativity.
Many people found Francis Bacon's concern with «
human goods» vulgar, or even
sinful: it
was enough for scientists to find the laws ruling natural phenomena, the better to glorify God,
who first created Nature.
Because we
are all
sinful human beings it can
be very easy to
be a keeper at home
who is miserable, discontent, longing for «greener pastures» and foolishly plucking down her home with her own hands (Proverbs14: 1).