Sentences with phrase «than you those sins which»

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From a legal and regulatory standpoint, sanction - busting and lax regulatory compliance are very different sins than intellectual property theft and discriminatory trade polices (which Trump often cites as the main justifications for his threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports).

While Sequoia acknowledged that Facebook «has unquestionably committed sins for which it must now atone,» the firm explained that it chose to purchase a stake as it believes «it remains a far more competitively advantaged, economically attractive and faster - growing enterprise than the average American business.»

And, for what it's worth, its name often autocompletes on Google ahead of «the 7 deadly sins» and «the 7 dwarfs» — which prompted one Twitter user to observe, «You're more popular than the Bible and Disney.»

Likewise, a 132 - page Task Force report was released which found CEO Jamie Dimon guilty of no greater sin than being too reliant on information from below.

By commenting on sexuality as an aspect of our lives in which we can live for God, this seems to imply more than simply refraining from sexual sin.

The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many of the recurring themes of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life, death... Adding to the intimacy level, many of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.

Antinomianism is heresy that tells Christians it's OK to forget about God's law and concentrate solely on agape love... a course which is a justification for degeneration and immoral licence, rather than promoting the true Christian liberty (i.e. freedom from sin to serve God and our fellows).

According to Schiller, Lycurgus» chief sin was to deny that «the state is never an end in itself (Der Staat selbst ist niemals Zweck); it is important only as a condition under which the purpose of mankind can be attained, and this purpose is none other than the development of all man's powers, his progress and improvement.»

Also, if you believe that God created them, you must also concede that he warned Adam & Eve not to make certain choices, but gave them freedom to do so, and that the consequences they were warned of have come to fruition for both them and all their progeny, and that sin hurts more than just the sinner, and so our lives (all of us) become increasingly more complex and painful with each new sin introduced, such that the choice to do right is often painful for us, which is not as it should be, nor as God would have it, but as we have made it.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be human by the Original Sin, not the Original Blessing — which is not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the human rather than Divine action.

And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as well.

Again, I believe that Jesus was more concerned about the barriers to God which are erected by religion than He was about the barriers to God which are caused by sin.

He is also fully human like us in every way, except for sin (which would make him less than human).

'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»

The results in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that the faith to which people were called was often more the objective belief that the scriptures were completely true than the deeply personal assurance of God's forgiveness of their sins and the resulting freedom.

Christians who are bound together sacramentally understand that they are responsible for one another and for one another's sins, more than a few of which have corporate dimensions.

I'm not a Christian, but I know that Christianity is more than the heaven / hell / sin / redemption package to which you are responding.

Hence it is sin, rather than matter as such, which is the cause of corruption and death.

Perhaps the good folks at the AHA missed this poll from 2013, which showed that less than 4 in 10 Americans believe that homosexuality is sin, and the number of Americans who think that homosexuality is sinful continues to drop.

Sin did no real harm whatever in the universe, since the absolute perfection which the universe involves in its cause could never be more or less than absolute.

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

However why anyone would make a thing out of homosexual orientation being wicked and the cause of natural disasters rather than anything else which can more obviously be determined «sin» is prejudice beyond reason.

Sin: Why should a personal preference which is different than that of the majority be considered a sSin: Why should a personal preference which is different than that of the majority be considered a sinsin?

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

And better to repent of your own sins than always just accusing others of theirs (which is of course, the easy thing.)

And none is more real than that which comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.

Because humans are flawed, some more than others, depending on what has been learned and experienced though out life; also the kinds of sin and wounds we have been exposed to, which determine gateways that give access for evil to dwell in us.

If we evolved from the lower primates, then when we reached the stage of reflection and conscious choice (when the image of God entered into that line of primates), we made the decision to «sin» — to dominate and to kill in order to serve our own ends, rather than to follow the call of that «image of God» which had entered into the human creature.

Hi my name is Lindsey and I'm recovering heroin addict and my mother is a very devoted rightous Christian her favorite saying is I am the head and not the tail meaning she is the head is far better than me and I am the tail and because the way Christians have treated me recently through my struggle I have felt that I should convert to Hinduism when I brought this up to my mother she told me I will go to hell because Jesus is the only God which I do believe to an extent but I also believe in having peace within your own life and treating others equally fairly with love respect and dignity which my mother and my sister do not do the act as though they are better than anyone they do not sin they do not make mistakes and they are perfect in every way another one of her favorite sayings I'm not perfect but I'm going to try to be BC Jesus loves me that much.

Few judgments, however, have matched Runciman's own withering peroration: «the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost.»

God is no more guilty for the sins of Israel than Jesus is guilty for the sins of the world which He bore on the cross.

The Three - Fifths Compromise — a moral failure which defined a whole class of human beings as less than persons — was America's original sin the moment it was ratified.

The word about sin is the penultimate rather than the ultimate word of the gospel, which witnesses to the power of God, in both judgment and mercy, to provide by grace the resources we can not provide for ourselves.

I know this will upset the legalists who have posted here, but I think God (I use this English word which comes from the German word Gott — rather than Yahweh since I am writing to English readers as opposed to Israelis) is not going to damn any believer who knowingly sins and later regrets doing so and repents (changes their mind / heart).

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

It is a wholesome fact that in the recent war, far more than in any previous one, there was recognition that we are all embroiled in the sin which brought the conflict into being.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

In another sense the future event (which the synoptics emphasized more than John does) is merely a completion of the movement from sin to forgiveness, unbelief to belief, that is going on here and now, in the person and presence of the Son of man (5:27), Jesus himself.

Paul experiences the extremes of sin and God's mercy, which so captivates him as to make him the spiritual father of the Gentiles: «In the history of his sin and its most gracious forgiveness, he exemplifies far more than his brother Apostles his own Gospel; that we are all guilty before God, and can be saved only by His free bounty.»

Also thank you for the revelation about Romans 10:9 which talks about the salvation over the power of sin rather than eternal life.

We all realise that it is not the aspect of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage which is going to inspire and attract in our secular age, but there is no mention of the «remedy for concupiscence» angle or much on Original Sin, which I would have thought merited more than a passing nod.

At the opposite extreme is a view of sin which regards it as state of being, rather than as a set of concrete acts, and as a state of being in rebellion against God.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

You are, of course, right that this is a consistent theme of Paul's, but there are others who take «sin lists» (none of which actually includes being gay, of course) as somehow trumping this, rather than illustrating what is not beneficial.

Jeremy, If you feel the need to address sins which you feel are «greater» than homosexuality then certainly do so in love!

I did disagree a bit with some of what he wrote (such as on pages 23 - 27, and 75 - 94), but really appreciated his take on Romans 1 - 7, and his view that sin is basically trying to be «more than human» which only leads us to be «less than human.»

It sets us up in the position of God to decide which sins are worse than others, and which sins can be overlooked and which can not.

But I have heard multiple reports, involving different groups, in which the group reacted more forcefully to someone who said, «I'm gay and celibate» than they reacted to someone who was actively involved in sexual sin.

One may, in other ways, feel sorrow for sin (the sorrow of regret, or remorse, or despair); but one can not feel the sorrow of repentance (which alone leads to forgiveness and salvation) unless one knows that God suffers because of our sin incalculably more than we — and that he suffers willingly and out of love for us.