Sentences with phrase «upon human sin»

Yet these Christians act in the belief that testifying to the Good News is a requirement that can not be avoided, and that, potentially, faith and action based on this liberating gospel can indeed transform structures built upon human sin and pride.

Not exact matches

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.

The Catholic tradition — even the wise Pope Benedict — still seems to put too much stress upon caritas, virtue, justice, and good intentions, and not nearly enough on methods for defeating human sin in all its devious and persistent forms.

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!!!»

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.

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).

Their sin cut them off irrevocably from God and so God decided to repair the damage done by sending his Son to take that sin upon himself and so restore human beings to righteousness.

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.

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».

It is interesting to note in this respect that in Whitehead's judgment the Jews «conceived one of the most immoral Gods ever imagined» and that he endorses Thomas Hardy's remark in Tess of the D'Urbervilles «But although to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature.

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

The same sins that God frowned upon 2000 yrs ago are the same sins we as humans commit today.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

Schleiermacher, however, built a theory of the solidarity of humankind in sin upon an evolutionary view of human nature.

And consonant with the immutable position of Yahwistic prophetism, whose primary proposition is always the effective impingement of divine life upon history, the meaning of Solomon's reign and of events subsequent to it is discerned in the scheme of sin and judgment: like Babel, apostasy results in the rupture of human community.

And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this I'm hearing about a human sacrifice for your sins!?

According to what he calls the «first degree of humility,» which is the lowest degree necessary to attain salvation, it is incumbent upon the Christian «to obey the law of God our Lord in all things, so that not even were I made lord of all creation, or to save my life here on earth, would I consent to violate a commandment, whether divine or human, that binds me under pain of mortal sin» (Spiritual Exercises # 165).

By providing us with One whom we may love and serve without reservation, Christ delivers us from self centeredness, that turning - in upon ourselves which is the root - meaning of human sin.

At times God appears violent, not because He is violent, but because, just as Jesus on the cross took the sin of the world upon Himself, so also God in human history, took the violence of humanity upon Himself.

Nothing in human effort or will, nothing in our human loves, distorted as they are by sin, can be relied upon as indications of the love of God.

Like other facets of liberation theology, healing prayer draws upon faith as process, our own human responsibility to restore God's rule to this world and the corporate dimension of sin.

God manifests Himself upon the scene of our daily living as the Lord and Giver of life: interpreting the divine will to our human hearts, comforting us in our sore bereavements, awakening within us a hunger for the eternal, quickening our souls to repentance for sin, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God.

This means that God takes sin seriously, and such condemnation may fall upon us, even in a professed state of righteousness, for our injustice, our indifference to human needs, or any other sin against the love commandment.

The doctrine of Original Sin is a recognition that the damage wreaked upon human nature which we all inherit involves a weakening and wounding of our whole nature, body and soul.

It treats its wintry landscape similarly: not as a metaphorical whiting out of sins, but as a tabula rasa upon which human nature — in big bright colors — will eventually paint its own selfish doom.