Sentences with phrase «sinful nature of man»

Such teachings turned the Calvinist view of the sinful nature of man almost into its opposite.

Perfect civil righteousness does not undo the basically sinful nature of man; only spiritual righteousness does that, and spiritual righteousness is nothing else than faith in Christ.

Exactly what is the value of the Law in the Old Testament other than to point out the sinful nature of man and his need for a savior.

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the purpose of the LAW was to convict man of his sinful nature.

The will of Man is by nature sinful & selfish and easily vulnerable to the influence of Satan which is corrupt and evil.

When Calvinists speak of man as begin totally depraved, they mean that man's nature is corrupt, perverse, and sinful throughout (Steele & Thomas, Five Points of Calvinism, 18).

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.

Man by nature is sinful but the grace of God abounds to those who seek him earnestly.

Niebuhr said that Christian thought had confused the relation of man's original righteousness to his sinful nature in history by assigning the original righteousness to a paradisiacal period before the Fall of Adam.

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

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

But Faust is a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, his soul is acquainted with no envy, he perceives that he is unable to check the raging he is well able to arouse, he desires no Herostratic honor — he keeps silent, he hides the doubt in his soul more carefully than the girl who hides under her heart the fruit of a sinful love, he endeavors as well as he can to walk in step with other men, but what goes on within him he consumes within himself, and thus he offers himself a sacrifice for the universal.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

First of all, if the Bible says that men and women should not have relations that are contrary to their nature then it would seem that if a man or woman is gay, having straight relationships would be «contrary to their nature» and therefore sinful in the eyes of God.

Man's sinful nature is such that he will use instruments of power for evil ends unless there is something to instruct him in their beneficent uses.

At baptism your dirty, impure old man of sin (the sinful human nature) dies and you resurrect to a new life in Christ.

Instead, man's will, as the result of inherited depravity, is in bondage to his sinful nature (Steele & Thomas, Five Points of Calvinism, 19).

Part of the reason is that the Christian faith takes seriously what has been traditionally called the fallen nature of man, namely, that man is a sinful creature, who does not find in himself the power to bring to fulfillment the ideals which attract him.

b) Theology of social and political action: Muentzer was led not only to a new concept of religious authority, the prophetic proclamation of the elect but also to a new understanding of man's nature and destiny Luther saw man utterly sinful and can be saved only through complete trust in the grace of God as revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.