Sentences with phrase «sinful will of man»

This is seen as a «contradiction,» which he resolved by presenting the notion that «God has a twofold life — a life in himself of unclouded peace and self - satisfaction, and a life in and with His creation, in which He not only submits to the conditions of finitude, but even allows His power to be limited by the sinful will of man.»

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

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

no there is no big sin or small one all our sinful but God created man and woman to marry i really do nt believe that men on men or women on women marriage will be acceptable in the sight of God.

Niebuhr's analysis of man's sinful condition showed that the self is unable to know the truth with its reason and unable to obey the truth in its will.

It is self - evident that sinful man needs an outside source of power to begin to measure up to his true norm, else he will surrender to despair.

Jesus is represented as saying, «For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels» (Mark 8:38).

In some of his parables — such as the one about the prodigal son — he seems to go further than any Jewish teacher had ever gone before in depicting God as One who is not only willing but eager to be reconciled with sinful man.

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.

If we are questioning the potential canon of scripture being used I will again refer to God's use of Sinful, corrupt man throughout the entirety of the Bible in accomplishing his ultimate purposes.

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

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.