Sentences with phrase «while sinning against»

You can love God while sinning against Him, isn't that the point of Confession and penance??

Not exact matches

But you can't love God while you're sinning against Him.

While a paltry few of the hysterically accused may have committed crimes against man, what they did is most certainly NOT a sin in either in the Bible or in God's eyes.

The 1975 Continental Congress on the Family (a nationwide gathering in St. Louis of more than 2,000 evangelicals) issued a statement declaring that «while we acknowledge the Bible teaches homosexuality to be sinful, we recognize that a homosexual orientation can be the result of having been sinned against.»

Muslim scholars said the key part of this passage, which forms the backbone of Islam's «just war» theory, is that, while self - defense is allowed, violent aggression, especially against innocents, is a grave sin.

In this way, while the sin of the first man, Adam, brought about the murder of brother against brother and a never - ending cycle of retaliatory vengeance, the offering of the second Man, Jesus, also brought about the murder of brother against brother (and of man against God), but in so doing, Jesus offered a word of forgiveness, which put an end to the need for retaliatory vengeance.

Notwithstanding, in the mean while they fight in spirit against the flesh, lest they should fulfill the lusts thereof; and although they feel the flesh to rage and rebel, and themselves also do fan sometimes into sin through infirmity, yet are they not discouraged, nor think therefore that their state and kind of life, and the works which are done according to their calling, displease God; but they raise up themselves by faith.»

And while rebuking the harsh legalism of certain clergy, he has also warned against «loose ministers» of the Gospel who tell penitents «this is not a sin» when it is.

Everything I did, and wherever I went, I was still in a storm, and yet I continued to be the chief contriver and ring - leader of the frolics for many months after; though it was a toil and torment to attend them; but the devil and my own wicked heart drove me about like a slave, telling me that I must do this and do that, and bear this and bear that, and turn here and turn there, to keep my credit up, and retain the esteem of my associates: and all this while I continued as strict as possible in my duties, and left no stone unturned to pacify my conscience, watching even against my thoughts, and praying continually wherever I went: for I did not think there was any sin in my conduct, when I was among carnal company, because I did not take any satisfaction there, but only followed it, I thought, for sufficient reasons.

But while we continue to struggle against these sinful temptations, what has been given to us in Christ Jesus is liberation from the shackles of sin that claims us as its own.

With his own sense of «should,» John Paul has moved mountains to help rescue Orthodoxy from the oppression of international atheism while seeking forgiveness for those sins that Catholics have committed against the Orthodox.

In a world where the religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the sins of others while claiming that they are in relationship with the One who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against children and have leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

The first example of such a judgement we find in the story of Ananias and Sapphira, whose sin is not so much that they have failed to share their possessions with the community as that they have lied against God and the Holy Spirit by keeping back part of their property while claiming to have given all of it (Acts 5:3 - 4, 9).

That said, why is Arya objecting to target an unforgivable sin, while the Waif's vendetta against Arya is rewarded with the opportunity to eliminate her?

He said while the party would overlook the sins committed by those set of people, he therefore warned that anyone who participates in fresh plot against the former ruling party would not be forgiven.

While the main focus of the film deals with the infamous bailout that took place late last year, he also finds a huge amount of sins committed against those with less by those with more.

It's interesting because Mad Max commits a lot of sins that the public would normally demand reviewers be harsh on, such as the typical open - world covered in icons, most of which aren't really worth the effort, a generic combat system, a reliance on busy - work, fetch quests, a poor story and much more, and yet Mad Max seems to be getting a free pass while critics are being called out for noting things the public would normally be against.

What we encounter, instead of our beloved physics, is something wearing a familiar skin and yet clearly alien underneath: targets that you should try to not hit; obstacles that are destroyed upon impact instead of redirecting your shot; power - ups like some sort of «shmup»; slightly - stupid AI that needs your nearly - constant verbal attention while you're trying to keep the ball in play; a victory condition that has absolutely nothing to do with your flipper accuracy; and perhaps the most egregious crime (nay, sin) against pinballers everywhere, [b] a time limit [/ b].

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.