Sentences with phrase «to condemn the sinner»
"In simple terms, 'to condemn the sinner' means to criticize or denounce someone for their wrongdoings or bad behavior." Full definition
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It's the quintessential win - win situation... they get to preach their message and hope the magic happens, but if not, they justifiably and righteously condemn the sinner, and here's the rub, both outcomes are wonderfully supported by ample scriptural proofs.And we wonder why fundamentalism is so appealing....
God is not in the business of condemning the sinner or his conscience (1 John 3:20; John 3:17).
This same tension crops up in the Protestant Reformation, with Martin Luther's juxtaposition of Law and Gospel (reflected in his quasi «Marcionite view that the Old Testament condemns the sinner while the New Testament proclaims a message of unmerited grace), as against John Calvin's much more positive view of Old Testament Law, a code that in fact became the legal basis for his theocracy in Geneva.
As the Pharisees condemn the sinners God totally delivered them and they became people hated by the ordinary people and ripe for prison and bankrupt.
Jesus doesn't condemn sinners... does He?
Because they were condemning sinners, whom Jesus loved.
And Christ did not come to the world to condemn the sinner but to SAVE (DRAW the sinner to Him).