Sentences with phrase «sinful humanity»

Must he preside over the death, not only of sinful humanity, but of this one who knew no sin?

The Old Testament priesthood tried to separate itself from sinful humanity through ritual purification.

Though it can sometimes refer simply to an encouraging message (1 Thess 3:6), and Jesus often used the term to describe the coming of the Kingdom of God (cf. Matt 4:23; 9:35), Paul is the one who used the word in his writings, and he uses the word most often in reference to describe the complete chain of events regarding what God has done for sinful humanity through Jesus Christ to provide eternal life for them.

On the cross, Christ has borne all wrath — God's righteous anger against sinful humanity and human fury against the tragedy of existence and the creator of such a vale of tears.

They practice a sacramental piety, recognizing baptism, communion, and absolution as means by which God bestows unearned grace and forgiveness on sinful humanity.

Instead of God demanding a blood sacrifice to satisfy His wrath toward sinful humanity, Scripture indicates that it was mankind who put Jesus to death on the cross.

For Calvin such goodness would not be freely given to sinful humanity unless God gave to some what God denied to others.

He looks at sinful humanity and says, «Though you are against Me, though you are evil from your youth, though you have rebelled against Me and will continue to rebel against Me, I am on your side.

Regardless of how it happened, the explanation of Eliphaz for why the flood came upon the earth is that sinful humanity pushed God away.

Alex was told that the story was an analogy for the good news: that Aslan represents Jesus and Edmund represents sinful humanity.

Paul is speaking of sinful humanity (Gentiles) not having an intimate knowledge of His saving grace, not having had the gospel revealed to them as the Jews had, yet having a knowledge of God revealed by His creation.

The violent portions of Scripture are to be understood as the times when God withdrew from sinful humanity and a sinful world.

Only the Son could ask it, and the Father can only grant it to the Son who has embraced and endured the worst that sinful humanity can do.

I am confident that he would not have asserted that those theologians who affirm that the humanity of Jesus was a sinful humanity would be damned for such a belief.

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.

Yet «for those who are in daily touch with suffering, needy, sinful humanity, what is most required is less theology than spirituality, applied Christianity, first - order Christianity.»

Our research must be haunted by firsthand encounters with suffering, needy, sinful humanity.

The law of subordination is based on God's gracious condescension to a sinful humanity in the person of his Son Jesus Christ.

Sin is not a sort of appendage to man; it is the characteristic of sinful humanity.

Let the atonement be a dollars - and - cents substitutionary transaction between an aloof, righteous judge of a God and sinful humanity or else a mythical Christus Victor military coup.

Notes De Gruchy, «For Muslims it is inconceivable that God, in any sense, could suffer on behalf of sinful humanity.»

As indicated previously, Genesis 8:21 proves that the flood was not about ridding earth of sinful humanity.

Such is the Divine Mercy of the Son of God, who becomes a man, assuming the wretchedness of sinful humanity, sin excepted, in order to deliver it from death and eternal damnation.

And as in The Dark Knight, a superhero scapegoats himself to unite a sinful humanity.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, regeneration by the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ is absolutely essential.