And yet, the «innocent» party is often not completely innocent since little «
sins against love» can increase the temptation to seek love elsewhere.
Adultery is definitely a «
sin against love» from the perspective of the spousal partner, even when the adulterer feels it is an act of love.
This means that God takes sin seriously, and such condemnation may fall upon us, even in a professed state of righteousness, for our injustice, our indifference to human needs, or any other
sin against the love commandment.
Not exact matches
But you can't
love God while you're
sinning against Him.
You can
love God while
sinning against Him, isn't that the point of Confession and penance??
Jesus came to bring
Love to mankind.A mankind who desire to
sin against God.
Because He can not force us to
love or believe in Him, there must be a place separate from Him and His redeeming act on the cross for those who have
sinned against Him.
But as you mentioned with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for
loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger
against sin.
Give me texts of David
sinning, Amos raging
against the «cows» of Bashan or Jesus again in trouble for
loving outcasts.
His only judgments came
against the religious leaders who were judged not for their
sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and
love to those who needed it the most.
Shouldn't the
sin of rebellion
against God be repaid with a deprivation of God's Law, the greatest expression of His own particular
love for the Jews?
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.
«Insofar as God is a lover, He must also be a sufferer when His
love comes up
against the No of
sin.»
«
Sin» is doing anything against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down with the man love, it's a s
Sin» is doing anything
against the will of God, I.e., if you believe God isn't down with the man
love, it's a
sinsin.
When we
sin we act
against the principle of
love.
At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have
sinned terribly
against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still
loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that
love.
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)
What is written is what is needed to know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live and function in this world.When man
sin against God, he first
loves us, that's why he sent his only begotten son that who so ever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life.
To Pope Francis» credit, I believe that he was speaking out
against excessive consumerism and the
love of money over God; both of which are clearly
sins.
Keep preaching young lady and pay no mind to God - hating,
sin -
loving haters and bigots
against the word of God.
Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very
loving and forgiving he will forgive every
sin except one and that is blasphemy
against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a
sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?
Kaiser understands God's wrath as an act of
love against sin which hurts those He
loves.
Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks
against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of
love.
Love is to the Christian a term which points to an infinite holiness which always stands in judgment upon man, but the judgment is
against man's
sin, not
against his existence as a man.
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.
So, either they mean
sin is arbitrary, and God is arbitrarily
against gay people only, or they doubt the sincerity of our
love or the health of our relationships... no, no judgement there...) Love should always come before or instead of judgement, but not because sexual sins aren't signific
love or the health of our relationships... no, no judgement there...)
Love should always come before or instead of judgement, but not because sexual sins aren't signific
Love should always come before or instead of judgement, but not because sexual
sins aren't significant.
Every
sin is an act
against the eternal
love, and causes God's comment: you shall not...!
(Isaiah 40:17, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Ephesians 5:2) And in order that He might demonstrate His
love, and to bring glory and honor, and praise to Himself, and in order to demonstrate His relative attributes of mercy, grace, justice, and
loving - kindness, He devised a plan in eternity past to create a universe where His creation would rebel
against Him, and He would send forth His Son to the world to be born of a virgin, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die a subst.itutionary death on a cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of
sins.
There can be no
sin without
love, either
love perverted,
love distorted, or, and here we peer into a deeper depth,
love destroyed by a revengeful unlove which turns
against life itself.
The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual
sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God
against the background of
Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all
loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.
Christ is
sinned against, I believe, when anything less than this universal, complete
love is made central, either to God's nature and purpose, or to man's nature and destiny.
Love ye one another from the heart; and if a man
sin against thee, speak peaceably to him, and in thy soul hold not guile; and if he repent and confess, forgive him.
At any rate, its kinship with his spirit is unmistakable «
Love ye, therefore, one another from the heart; and if a man
sin against thee, cast forth the poison of hate and speak peaceably to him, and in thy soul hold not guile; and if he confess and repent, forgive him....
That revelation shows us a perfectly
loving God who is also violently wrathful
against sin.
It is literally impossible to overestimate His
love for you, which never ends, despite the fact that you repeatedly disobey and
sin against Him.
If we read scripture faithfully we will see that God is a God of
love, but he is also a God of judgment
against sin.
So to reprimand anyone for commending Buddhist humanism is definitly not
loving thy neighbor, but you are
sinning by using harsh words
against those who are trying to
love their brothers.
For Jesus, nothing was so grievous a
sin against his Father's
love as exclusion.»
If I think of my wife as an object I am
sinning against her.I have very rarely experienced
love making with my wife even for a moment outside of lust, I find it difficult to even focus on her much of the time.
The presbyters must be tenderhearted, merciful toward all, turning back [the sheep] who have gone astray, visiting the sick, not neglecting widow or orphan or poor man, abstaining from all anger, respect of persons, unrighteous judgment, being far from all
love of money, not hastily believing [anything]
against any one, not stern in judgment, knowing that we are all debtors because of
sin.7
I
love this confident mood among the gooners after a huge
sin over our arch enemies, especially with international break on, which means two weeks of party mood, hopefully we can consolidate united win by defeating Watford otherwise it will be back to square one, so the boys and the management should be as motivated as they were
against united, we have seen in past they getting over confident
against the so called small teams and dropping unnecessary points, 3 pts are 3 pts regardless of the opponents.
I was teaching my kids their Catechism so they would not
sin against God Who
loves them.
LOL LOL so true the more conservative and religious they are the bigger the sinner they are such hypocrites and so phony wow but all he has to do is say he
sinned against G - d and say he is
against abortion and they the conservatives will still
love him what idiots and phonies