Sentence examples for fall of humankind from inspiring English sources
From Jewish sources Christians adopted and adapted some mythical themes: the creation of the world, the end of the paradisal condition and the fall of humankind, the assumption of human form by a god, the saved saviour, the cataclysm at the end of time, and the final judgment.
The latter account contains a theory of the fall of humankind from this ideal state, which led to a need for institutionalized power, or kingship; the former account leads directly from the insecurity of the prekingship era to the installation of king by the divine ruler for the protection and the security of humankind.
In his interpretation of the second and third chapters of Genesis as the fall of all humankind, Augustine rejected the idea of free will and recoiled from human sexuality as innately sinful.
The sculpted figures in the archway depict biblical scenes of sin and punishment, signaling the advent of Christ's sacrifice, with an over-reaching message of the "Fall and Redemption of humankind".
The fate of humankind is cemented with another walk.
"Gotta Know," a slow-burn ballad in the Rolling Stones vein, begins with the earnest question "Hey there, little flower/How do you grow?" On "King Hummingbird" he's addressing a bird, attempting to atone for the sins of humankind: "I'll fall down/On my knees and beg/For the life I took from you, my king".
Are the first chapters of Genesis the powerful story of God's creation and of humankind's tragic fall?
Though his role as saviour of fallen humankind is not enacted in the epic, before their expulsion from Eden learn of the future redemptive ministry of Jesus, the exemplary gesture of self-sacrificing love.
It's the label that, to me, at the same time exposes our industry at its most shallow and manages to disregard the whole history of humankind in one fell swoop.
Creation is followed by temptation, disobedience, and fall and all that follows from that for the history of humankind.
