Sentences with phrase «sinful nature of all human beings»

There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered, sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.

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Graber is passionately concerned with the nature of intelligence and the human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.

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.

We shall probably never be very good in praying, but that is simply a fact of our feeble, sinful, finite human nature.

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.

This view is normally associated with a somewhat external view of God's working and the notion that human nature is completely sinful.

In this case there is a competition between the gracious work of God and the sinful resistance of human nature.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

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.

«It is a part of sinful human nature to build barriers that shut out other people.

As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential elements that are missing from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.

«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.»

So, Jesus» actions and his human behaviors, his normal human behaviors, all fell within the boundaries of God's nature and therefore were and are not sinful.