As have so many theologians before him, Cullmann found in Paul's letters to the Corinthians and the Romans the locus classicus for the Christian connection of death
with sin and evil.
To the degree that this happens, relational thinking can drift away from the radically personalized encounters of Jesus
with sin and evil, and thus lessen its appropriateness as a Christian theology.
Not exact matches
6They are the kind who worm their way into homes
and gain control over weak - willed women, who are loaded down
with sins and are swayed by all kinds of
evil desires, 7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
Seems like you
and your god are the hateful ones, what
with threats of eternal torture for «
sins» of a short mortal life,
and similar horrors throughout your
evil storybook a.k.a. bible.
Cross told Premier how Christians should approach the issue: «From Christian point of view I don't think we should veer away from the fact that there is
evil going on that there is
sin and that we need to be prepared to step in into that
and deal
with it.
And cometh that match, Jesus shall laugh in glee as the faithful, filled with His love, gouge the eyes from the atheists and kicketh them where men should not be kicked, and smash them over the head with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling, and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
And cometh that match, Jesus shall laugh in glee as the faithful, filled
with His love, gouge the eyes from the atheists
and kicketh them where men should not be kicked, and smash them over the head with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling, and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and kicketh them where men should not be kicked,
and smash them over the head with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling, and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and smash them over the head
with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling,
and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and others of the saved shall hoot
and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and holler
and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens
and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and the atheists do much wailing
and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and gnashing of teeth
and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and stubbing of toes
and get nasty hangnails for their evil si
and get nasty hangnails for their
evil sins.
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!!!&raq
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!!!&raq
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!!!&raq
and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!»
At baptism, we are anointed
with the Holy Spirit so that we may be soldiers of Christ in the world, so that we may fight the forces of
sin and evil.
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.
Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt,
and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine,
and Aquinas into conversation
with moderns, both Christian
and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of
sin and evil in the human condition.
The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven
sin and reestablished fellowship
with God, but they were also confided in by
evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.
society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays
and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
and lesbians
and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent,
and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant
and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS
AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN
AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS,
AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT
EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY
and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR S
and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS
WITH OUT
SIN, ACCEPT THEIR
SIN.
I'll focus on your problem
with the word
evil (as for the eastern stuff, I'm aware that try see it as a sickness, but there is also an acknowledgement of human
sin and evil.
What is more, God calls humanity to be co-workers
with God in overcoming
evil, wrong,
and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort,
and willing response to what we know of God's love
and God's purpose for us.
The term «
sin» is not introduced
with Adam
and Eve (Eve being where the term
evil originated).
When Adam
and Eve misused their wills in the Garden of Eden by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil,
sin entered into the world,
and with it came death, decay,
and destruction.
Second, God deals
with the
evil, wrong,
and sin by the suffering love that can mysteriously transmute it into good.
Its amusing that so many «christians» will bash someone over the head
with a bible to point out their supposed «
sins» as contained within holy scripture
and yet ignore one of its greatest commandments: render unto NO ONE
evil for
evil.
I.e. the Didache (70 ~ 150 AD) when it states «Confess your
sins in church,
and to not go up to prayer
with an
evil conscience.
On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon
evil, as made up of ills
and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of
Sin in the singular,
and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity,
and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.
driving around
with No 1 christian porn site is a real work of satan the Devil loves making Christianity look
evil and satan has his ministers teaching people they can not stop
sinning and will alway keep
sinning..
Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of
evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness
and insistence
with which it sets forth the necessity
and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective
sins and to create a more sensitive
and more modern conscience.
The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty
and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God
with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social
sin and structural
evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal
sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action
and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised;
and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.
Is it possible
and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me
and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help
and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know
and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the
sins in life
and i am feeling put on the
sin of those who committed the unforgiviable
sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this
sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you
and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting
and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day
and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists
and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross
and also not for eternal life
and i still
sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced
and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly
sin a lot
and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is
evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus
and god only have freedom because they can
sin only
with in a limit
and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell
and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before
and i think it was also Adam
and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan
and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't
and today we are seeing the result
The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself
evil,
and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains
with the contradictions of
sin.30
Sin, as self - centeredness
with regard to both God
and other persons, is man's most persistent
evil.
Hickson documented his assertion
with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches,
and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by
evil spirits, asthma, stammering,
and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness,
and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet
and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of
sin - sick souls»
and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy,
and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»
Since
sin is located fundamentally in freedom,
and freedom is connected
with human self - transcendence, corporate
evil is something less than
sin.
«1 Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ
and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — 2
and all the brothers
and sisters1
with me, To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace
and peace to you from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our
sins to rescue us from the present
evil age, according to the will of our God
and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever
and ever.
If, on the plane of moral
evil rather than physical or «natural»
evil, one replies that
with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten
and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from
sinning and going to hell?»
But it must be said that moral
evil and sin are tied in
with the very freedom
and responsibility that men
and women know
and value.
... To the individual he comes
with power to liberate him from every
evil and sin, from every power in heaven
and earth, from every threat of life or death.
His preaching method is partly to blame for his lack of communication about God's grace: he spoke more often of
sin,
and since the life of grace is still mixed
with evil it is easier to stress man's condition of
sin.
Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents
with something approaching adequacy the fact
and meaning of
sin in human life — the reality of moral
evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement
with it, the perverse
and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements,
and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.
For Christians, dealing
with the gravity of
sin and evil, both corporate
and individual, requires much more than a shift in consciousness.
Taking as his text, «Speak
evil of no man» (Titus 3:2), Tillotson goes on interestingly enough about the
sins of gossip
and slander,
and concludes
with this: «I foresee what will be said, because I have heard it so often said in the like case, that there is not a word of Jesus Christ in all this.
It is corporate social
sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious
evil consequences
and is hardest to reckon
with.
So cursing God in your heart is terrible
sin,
and is one thing, but doing so in your speech, if your heart overflows
with such
evil, is quite another.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from
sinning»; — He heals many others
and says «go
and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money
with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses
with seeking Pharisees; He debates
with other Pharisees; He lives
with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»...
and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness
and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «
evil» or «good».
26 Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you
and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your
sins and iniquities, ye are angry
with him,
and cast him out
and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet,
and that he is a sinner,
and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are
evil.
Augustine began
with the Pauline doctrine of original
sin and the fall of man,
and attributed all moral
evil,
and most if not all physical
evil, to that.
(148) Whether ye publish a good deed or conceal it or cover
evil with pardon, verily Allah doth blot out (
sins)
and hath power (in the judgment of values).
@Jaz - There is nothing wrong
with a gay couple adopting a child, now if that gay couple was going to adopt a child
and believed that all straight ppl were living a lifestyle that was considered
evil and a
sin and were going to teach that type of hatred to the child, then they should not be allowed to adopt, pretty simple logic that goes both ways.
It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our
sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our
sins)
and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven,
and given the great mercy
and grace that we all need, in order to be saved,
and not destroyed
with all that is
evil.
Knowing I have a
sin nature
and that nature is as capable as anyone
with that nature to do
evil makes us equals - the only difference between me
and anyone not a Christian is the bold of Christ - on that principle we meet learn the Word
and doctrine
and if need be share our pain
and temptations
and learn to trust God
and each other.
They have found the Bible to be a «soul - book,» a book which deals
with issues of life
and death, of good
and evil, of
sin and guilt, of love, forgiveness,
and freedom; a book of guidance
and inspiration.
May the Lord God Almighty deal
with you, because Im a believer, I repented of all my
evil sins and believe now in Jesus as my Lord
and Saviour
and he is the Son of God.
The world rapidly fills
with the light of the resurrection, dispelling the darkness, overcoming the night of death
and sin and the power of
evil.
He had his head
and heart filled enough
with the
evils,
sins,
and glories of Orthodoxy.
some that
with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused
and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel
and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him...
evil is blind
and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith
and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way
and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our
sin so even
with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator
and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...