Sentences with phrase «then unmerited»

IF there is an immanent God (much moreso if he is also loving), then unmerited suffering requires, nay DEMANDS an answer... something I have found Christianity very poor at providing.

Not exact matches

So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?