Sentences with phrase «sinful humans»

Though this seems unjust, people explain that it only seems unjust because we are sinful human beings and think that some sins are not as bad as others.

That's not to say that the creativity of sinful human persons could ever free them from dependence on the Creator to whom they owe their very being.

Conclusion: Even we as sinful human beings punish our fellow human beings, if they extremly get out of line.

The story of Jesus is what the eternal trinitarian life of God looks like when it is projected upon the screen of history, and this means not only on the screen of human history but of sinful human history.

Fasting for sinful human beings finds its heart in fasting from evil.

If God is going to accomplish anything in the world, He has no choice but to use sinful human beings to do it.

At the same time, I can't quite shut out that old Reformed refrain that humans are incapable of doing any good apart from God, that we are rotten to the core and that illusions of meaningful progress are tricks of Satan or the result of sinful human pride.

Why is He going to show us things that are going to applaud sinful humans.

However, I DO despise sinful human existence, for it is evil.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

But they also believed there was a huge gap — an «infinite qualitative distinction» in the words of theologian Karl Barth — between sinful humans and the omniscient God.

Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and that often results in wars, oppression, and suffering.

Our own sinful human nature turned against us.

We need to frequently be filled because as sinful humans, we leak.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

In sinful human beings the sense of justice is often distorted, as in the case of a person who becomes livid when someone cuts in front of him in line; but people ought to have a sense of justice, and to have one is to be prone to anger.

A prophet is a sinful human born of this earth.

It is not perfect love, but I know that as a sinful human being, I could never love perfectly.

Between you and I, from my sinful human perspective I abhor the doctrine.

Shakespeare's play informs the evangelical pastor especially that understanding, much less guiding, sinful humans is an exceedingly complex, frustrating, difficult, all but impossible proposition.

I'd say that's great patience, after all you are a sinful human being, as we all are.

The Divine became a member of our sinful human family of frail, short - lived creatures of a day.

This is part of why we are so surprised and shattered when church leaders fall — we forget that they are sinful human beings, just as in need of grace and accountability as the rest of us.

Does this mean that the divine became a human being, the nephesh of a Semitic male, a member of our sinful human family of frail, short - lived creatures of a day?

It also helps us understand that on the cross, Jesus understood the feeling of being a sinful human being, and it is for this reason that we can trust His promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb 13:5).

Judas is not the alter ego of Jesus because that would make Jesus a sinful human being and unfit to be the perfect atonement to God for our sin.

I might be going out too far on a theological limb here, but there is a part of me that thinks it is only here on the cross where Jesus finally experienced the pain and turmoil of what it is like to be a sinful human being separated from God.

There is a lot of benefit to being atheistic or agnostic, not the least of which is not having the constant guilt of being told you are a depraved, sinful human being who needs to be «saved» from the eternal torment of your loving god, who used his «son» as a human sacrifice.

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.»

Just as the crucifixion / resurrection is what the eternal procession of the Son from the Father looks like when projected upon sinful human history, so the sending of the Holy Spirit (so that we share in the life of God, so that the mystery of the church exists) is what the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit looks like when projected on to that sinful human world.

As the sinful human I am, I failed.

Though I am not a Calvinist, I hold to radical, outrageous, scandalous grace (a grace which is more gracious than the grace of many Calvinists), and I believe that as fallen and sinful human beings, we should always be about the work of reforming ourselves and our theology and never consider ourselves fully reformed.

The cross removed the barrier between a holy Cod and sinful human beings, made atonement, gave access into that grace in which we stand.

The first answer to the sinful human situation was God's grace expressed in Christ as the Truth (Son of God and second Adam).

Therefore, if Jesus had a truly human body, then it must have been evil or sinful, and if so, then Jesus was accursed and died as a sinful human in the flesh so that God could set Him free into the spiritual realm.

I do believe we need to share about the love of God and the renewed relationship with the Father though, but laying the foundation of the truth that we are sinful human beings, in need to be saved first.

There was, of course, never any real chance of Israel looking, acting, or becoming fully like Jesus Christ, because Israel consisted entirely of sinful human beings, whereas Jesus Christ was sinless, but the point is that just as Jesus reveals God the Father to us, so also, Jesus reveals Israel.

The congregation is made up of men and women who are finite, sinful human beings, yet also endowed with unrealized creativity.

Christians, first and foremost, are broken and sinful humans, living in a broken and sinful world.

Plus remember the church is made of of humans, sinful humans.

«Perhaps it is just part of our sinful human nature to attribute negative meaning to certain terms in order to justify the removal of words we either don't like or don't like the way they make us feel.»