Satan uses our hurt feelings as a platform for
sinning against others causing more rifts in our relationship.
The objections to fasting — the resistance of the flesh and «evangelical liberty» — must not deter one from fasting as a form of discipline.31 When the Christian has failed in obedience, is guilty of
sin against others, has lost the joy of Christian grace, and has come to little or no prayer, he needs to fast and pray.
She can lament
her sins against others more readily than the evils that harm God more directly.
At the same time, this conversion makes one aware of one's own imperfections and
sins against other Christians and so opens the way to one's own renewal.
Not exact matches
«We use vitamins as insurance policies
against whatever else we might (or might not) be eating, as if by atoning for our
other nutritional
sins, vitamins can save us from ourselves,» Catherine Price, a science reporter, wrote in the book «Vitamania.»
A splinter group known as the Kharijites taught that it was acceptable to excommunicate and legitimize jihad
against other Muslims, including Muslim rulers, if they were judged guilty of the commission of certain
sins.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole
other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars
against our flesh, even as Christ wars
against the man of
sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of
sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the
other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the
other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of
sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
The woman claims to be Catholic yet condones fornication, contraception, and probably
other things like abortion which the Catholic Church clearly states are
against the faith (and teaches that they are, serious, mortal
sins that unrepeated of before death, will put one to hell).
It stands
against sin, carnality, indifference, hatred, hypocrisy, and any
other behaviors that will cause one to go to hell.
Dalahäst I've harmed
others too, but I don't believe that I've
sinned against some deity.
@Topher, If He want's to forgive «
sins»
against Himself that's his business, but how can He forgive transgressions
against others?
Legal academics have argued that this sort of harm strikes at the heart of the common good, and that judges should count it
against the moral and religious liberty claims of those seeking to avoid complicity with
others»
sins.
The fact that you are naming anything as
sin against God and seeking his forgiveness and turning away from any
other similar actions indicates that they are hearing and responding to the Holy Spirit in their lives.
The
other kind,
sins, are those willful actions in which one is knowingly rebelling
against God's vision of reality; putting one's own efforts behind the break down of reality.
On the
other hand, I believe he also tought that performing an act which we believe to be
sin will be counted as
sin against us wether or not it is scriptural.
The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of
sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all
other laws.
Best Conversation: The authors of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith led an informative and challenging «teach in» on Twitter Wednesday night focusing on
sins committed
against women and girls and featuring a range of guests, including myself, Mimi Haddad, Deborah Brunt, Úna F. Lucey - Lee, Gail Song Bantum, and many
others.
The crime of adultery is not only a grave
sin against chastity but equally a grave violation of justice towards the
other spouse and towards the children there may be.
You
sin when you break His Holy Law (this would include all sinful acts
against yourself and
others), when you reject Him, and when you fail to give Him His due.
Jesus tells us that we are to forgive
others their trespasses (
sins)
against us in order for us to be forgiven by Him.
«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick
against it, and find out some heretic or
other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of
sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for
sin such as it has committed.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families
against each
other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're
against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the
sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence
against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among
others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
We are quick to quote
other commandments
against sins that are repulsive to us, but what about the
sins of ambition, greed and egomania that manifest themselves in empire - building, money - grubbing, Babel - erecting success stories?
The accounts of the prophets in the Qur» an are presented as those who support Muhammad's call
against sin of associating
others with the transcendent God who alone is worthy of worship and the warning of punishment to those who do not heed their warnings.
Those who rejoice in Niebuhr's fulminations
against Stalinism, or Russian betrayals of human dignity, usually hear him with only one ear, and fail to listen with equal seriousness to his insistent reminder that the
sins we see so clearly in
others are likely to be the
sins we most subtly replicate in ourselves.
By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly
against Islam, I am also
against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and
sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each
other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.
Keep funding legislation that discriminates
against others that are «
sinning» according to the bible.
The
sin that is most difficult to forgive in
others is always the one we struggle
against in our own lives.
Kierkegaard defends himself
against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual
sins through his own disobedience (
sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all
other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.
I take responsibility for the collective
sins of the world —
sins against the planet,
against other nations, for example, because although those weren't my decisions, I've participated in them.
Religion should not be in intwined into politics or forced on
others, it can not be force feed or it will not be absorbed, a good example that religion does not always make things right is all you have to do is look at the catholics priest that are around religion 24/7 — eat and sleep it, yet they commit
sins against young boys.
The social principles of Christianity declare all vile acts of the oppressors
against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original
sin and
other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed.28
If I try to be you, or you try to be me, neither of us will ever live up to our God - given potential, and we will never be able to help each
other in our battle
against sin and Satan.
There was, nonetheless, a preoccupation with a few symbolic
sins that must strike the modern observer as nearly pathological, and we will see in the next chapter how such preoccupations could lead to aggression
against others.
The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting
other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social
sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal
sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church»
against the hierarchy.
If Christian leaders are using their power and influence to control and threaten
others, and doing this in the name of Jesus, then it is not a
sin against the Holy Spirit to call them out on this!
Well it means that I can not commit grevious acts of hatred
against others or be self - serving in my
sin.
More than likely, there's a lot of talk about loving each
other, but not much about fighting
against sin or fighting for each
other.
«The killing of an unborn child through abortion via abortifacients or any
other means is an intrinsic evil, a
sin that goes
against God's plan for our salvation.
At the
other, in protest
against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of
sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.
Every
other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is
sinning against his own body.
Officials — bishops, division directors, editors, and
other grown - ups — are scheduled for intensive self - criticism workshops in order to discover and confess their
sins against «multicultural literacy.»
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.
In her youth she was taught that
sin means separation from God, turning away from the Creator, revolt
against him, worship of
other gods.
Doesn't the Bible warn individuals about the
sin of spreading falsehoods
against others?
Perhaps it is because many of us struggle to find words adequate to lament those
sins committed
against indigenous people, African Americans, immigrants, women, and
other marginalized groups throughout American history.
Every
other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man
sins against his own body.
In a world where the religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the
sins of
others while claiming that they are in relationship with the One who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes
against children and have leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...
On the one hand, I've heard that evil exists because of human choice and that suffering is the result of rebellion
against God, but on the
other, I've been told that fallen humans have no choice but to
sin because it is inherent to their nature, and God sovereignly allows suffering to continue.
Leaders of these ministries sometimes state if
other people write off supernatural healings, demonic exorcisms, and the gift of tongues as possibly coming from the devil, such people deny the power of the Holy Spirit and commit blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit, which supposedly is the unforgivable
sin.