Sentences with phrase «state of sin»

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.

There is a real state of sin, of which we are not personally guilty but which we nonetheless individually inherit.

This is, however, the genius of the phrasing: We start with ourselves, with our shared state of sin and moral indebtedness, and as we remember the greatness of the gift of grace, we realize that we must be agents of grace as well.

He suggests that people living in a persistent state of sin may receive communion if certain conditions are met — not least, if they are «tactful.»

I do not have good answers to your questions, but I do know this: that all Christians throughout time and around the world live in a constant state of sin.

Quick note... Original sin, also called ancestral sin, [1] is, according to a Christian theological doctrine, humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, [2] stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden.

Anyway — I agree with what you said, but (there's always a but)-- According to Catholic dogma, folks in a state of sin are not to be given communion.

In this debate, the «traditionalists» were in favor of truth (you can't receive Communion if you are in a state of sin; if you intend to have relations outside a valid marriage, you are in a state of sin; ergo, etc.), while the «progressives» were in favor of mercy (shouldn't those who have had a conversion after a divorce and civil remarriage be able to approach the Eucharist?).

Those that he describes as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable as God's creations, that is they exist in a state of sin.

Perhaps, the reason that some of our kids are troubled and confused is because some parents tell their children that they are born with something wrong with them, in a state of sin, no less.

Man thus is in a constant state of sin.

Those who divorce and remarry enter into a state of sin — not an occasion of sin which can be confessed and forgiven — but a state of life which is at odds with the Church's teaching.

(2) That this state of sin or tendency to commit sins is somehow or other our own fault.

Several local councils in the Middle Ages, without apparently intending to define the point, state in passing that some have actually died in a state of sin and been punished by eternal damnation.

This is most frequently the case with «states of sin», e.g. an irregular union or an ongoing adulterous relationship.

It's not our right to deny them such blessings but it's our duty to caution them as, for example, they get baptized while in the state of sin and continue to live out their sinful lifestyle because people like you tell them it's right.

Mr. Judge says: «Obama's central propositions are that America is in a state of sin, manifested by the divisions among us and that the act of electing him will wash away - or at least begin the washing away - of those sins.Deliverance is through election.