Sentences with phrase «state of innocence»

Well, if we returned completely, if we entered again into the complete state of innocence, we would no longer have the knowledge to prevent us from eating the apple again.

But the redemption won by Christ's death was greater than the original state of innocence for it brought humanity to an intimacy with God that they had not known in Eden, for in the person of Christ humanity was brought into union with God.

Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

In this understanding, human rights are not founded upon a myth about a «natural state of innocence.»

But there is no possibility of going back to an Arcadian state of innocence.

[10] This is what married couples seek, but this fullness is now only possible through grace won by Christ, who came to restore this interior peace and purity (although wecannot return to the first state of innocence since we live in a world corrupted by sin).

The marvel of this extraordinary movie is that it captures for even the most jaded grownup that pleasurable state of innocence and awe that only children are fortunate enough to experience.

Beninati's figurative works, at once saccharine and acidic in color, immerse the viewer in a dream state of innocence with a lurking malevolence.

Even after the Court of Appeal quashes someone's conviction, they need to convince the Secretary of State of their innocence.

He recognised that the redemption won by Christ's death was greater than the original state of innocence, for it brought humanity to an intimacy with God that they had not know in Eden.

Leeming says that in a state of innocence God would not have needed to communicate with us through «artificial (sic) signs».

Well, you might say, as some do, let's go back to a state of innocence.

It is directed backwards to a mythical golden age, to a state of innocence in a pastoral world where peace of mind is not threatened, intellectual aspiration is not called for and virtue is not at risk.

It seems, therefore, that to regard the Garden of Eden, the state of innocence, as the perfect state is simply a mistake.

23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.

She was neither in the state of innocence nor a state of grace, 2016.

The figures are each captured in different phases - some caught in a state of innocence, enchantment or play, others seem to surrender to nature's sublime but often cruel force.

pdf), tells the tale of a people living in a utopian community known as Blissful, which is located in the State of Innocence, whose citizens rally to save their public law libraries just in the nick of time.