Sentences with phrase «upon himself the sins of»

So the basic christian story of some alleged but never proven god impregnating a virgin with himself so that his son can die and take upon it the sins of all men is not true?

We should add at this point that even as the earth shares in the ruin attendance upon the sin of humanity (cf. Gen. 3.17 - 18), so the world «waits» for the apotheosis of humanity in which it too shall be renewed and glorified (cf., Rom.

Not exact matches

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

but it's not about the newborn babies being killed because they sinned but because of something bigger that displeased God, and his wrath was upon the entire people for the sins of those conscious of their choices, and because of that, it was upon the infants also.

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

This was a free decision by an adult to give his life and take upon himself the consequence of sin to set you free.

As John the Baptist said upon seeing Jesus: «Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!»

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

Christ is special because he was born to take upon his being the sins of those who were and then were also and of times yet to come!

My salvation is not of works but purely of Grace as bestowed upon me through the knowledge that my sins are forgiven through the perfect work of Christ.

And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic, evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!»

It would call upon politicians and businesspeople to repent of their involvement in the institutionalized sin of economic injustice.

The sea of sin evaporated away upon the holiness of God's sun.

Yet God covers our actions in His own blood, so that every time God looks like a lying, murderous, baby - killing, woman - raping bastard, it is because God has taken the burden of human sin upon His shoulders, and borne it away upon His body into death.

He simply took the sins of the world upon Himself so that He could conquer over sin, death, and the devil by bearing them all into the grave.

He founded his plan «before the foundation of the world» (Ephesians 1:4, & cf, Jn 1, Philippians 2) upon Lord Jesus, «the first born of creation» (Colossians 1), born from Mary conceived without sin.

But do really believe that Paul believed that the «judgement of God» were the natural things that come upon us as a result of sin.

This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

Paul is * not * saying all sinned «in Adam» — i.e. it is * not * sin that is passed from generation to generation (that is, that the taint of sin was added to / imposed upon our human constitution).

I would say say that the «judgment» of God on sin in Romans 2:3 is the natural consequences that come upon us in life as a result of sin.

First, when Jesus «became sin» and died upon the cross, I tend to get the visual of Jesus acting as a spiritual sponge....

It was so that He could defeat sin, death, and devil by taking all the violence upon Himself without retaliating in any way, but forgiving and reconciling instead, thus showing the powerlessness and emptiness of the way of violence.

God answered this vital question by sending His Son, Jesus, as the fulfillment of the most violent religious writings, to show us that He had nothing to do with the violence, but was instead dying along with us in the midst of the violence, taking our sin and suffering upon Himself, bearing our guilt and shame in His own being, all for the sake of those He loved.

Again, this was not because He is mad or angry at us, and transferred this anger upon Jesus, but rather, He did this because of His great love for us, and because He desired to see us freed from sin and death.

Not heredity but corporate personality explains Yahweh's far - flung punishments upon even the great - grandchildren of his enemies; it was the whole tribe that sinned in any member's sin and it was the whole tribe that suffered.

According to Anselm, God found a way of escape by allowing Jesus to take upon himself all the sins of the world.

Despite the fact that most of us grew up believing that God could not look upon sin (see my thoughts on that over here), it was not God who hid Himself from Adam but the other way around.

Telling people they are sinning for being LGBT or for having an abortion or using birth control or trying to impose your specific set of beliefs upon others in the public square is not a good thing and certainly doesn't show that you have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect.

Is it not normal, then, that he should be smitten and that he should bear upon himself this uncleanness, the mark of his sin, the sign of his violence?

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

As I understand it, Christ both took our punishment (legal requirement) and absorbed the full force of sin upon Himself (Christus Victor).

Terrible Queen Jezebel of the Old Testament was a warning to women in my circles, the death knell for any woman in leadership, carrying the accusations and implications of female bitterness, manipulation, emasculation, power, idol - worshipping, hyper sexuality, layers upon layers of pet sins encapuslated in one woman's ancient story of Israel.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

What about the triumph of holiness that is proud to say: «Look not upon our sins, but on the faith of your Church»?

When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.

When I read you say this as your possible resolution: «When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.»

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

The effects upon England of Original Sin, the 16th century Reformation's denial of Christ's bestowal of authority upon the Pope, and the 1960's reduction of the meaning of sex, have been cultural «atomic explosions» with massive fall out.

God's wrath is poured out upon humanity in the fact that by the very zeal we exert to do our duty and excel in our vocation, we contribute to the dynamics of sin and death in the world.

This is the superbia, or pride, which the medieval church looked upon as the worst of the seven deadly sins, and which exponents of the neo-orthodox school, notably Reinhold Niebuhr in America, continually remind us is the root of sin.

What so you mean by God «is taking the sins of the world upon Himself»?

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.

Throughout the Bible the belief in God's supreme goodness and holiness carries with it the note of divine judgment upon sin.

The Christian approach would ideally include the desire to uncover and probe the goodness, beauty and divine purpose of creation, as well as an emphasis upon the pre-eminence of love among men and the dire effects of sin on creation in general (see Romans 8.22) and on men in particular.

On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame of the entire world upon Himself.

Too often we focus upon the depth of our repentance rather than the depth of Gods love in rescuing us all, I read recently that repentance is not as much about saying sorry and turning from sin as it is recognizing what it cost God to save us and that he was the one who took the initiative and not us.

By taking the sin of the entire world upon Himself, Jesus revealed that this is what Yahweh has always been doing throughout time and history.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

In as much as Alpha even mentions our human nature the emphasis is the protestant one upon the image of God being «almost eradicated by sin».