Sentence examples for guilt of sin from inspiring English sources

In Roman Catholicism, penance is a sacrament and the power to absolve lies with the priest, who can grant release from the guilt of sin to the sinner who is truly contrite, confesses his sin, and promises to perform satisfaction to God.

After all, how to we get to substitutionary blood atonement (the idea that Jesus' death and spilled blood made right the guilt of sin we owed to God) without violence, right?

Adam fell through the primal sin of disobedience; he transmitted to all his descendants the guilt of that sin.

Lacking that absolution, such souls could not be granted the same final destiny of souls freed from the shared inherited guilt of original sin.

About their own free-floating guilt, of original sin, around being a socialist party.

In her triptych, Espíndola removes all of the many painted subjects and grafts herself into the role of Eve without, she adds, assuming the guilt of original sin.

God will forgive you and will release you from the guilt of any sin you have (and will have) committed.

All Souls' Day, in the Roman Catholic church, a day for commemoration of all the faithful departed, those baptized Christians who are believed to be in purgatory because they have died with the guilt of lesser sins on their souls.

According to this doctrine, through seminal identity with Adam, every human being must partake of the guilt of Adam's sin, and a child, even at birth and before it acquires the guilt of its own actual sin, is already deserving of God's wrath for its share in the original sin of humankind.

If I bought something nonessential, the guilt of a mortal sin washed over me.

First, the mandate fines Catholic institutions like Notre Dame and the Eternal World Television Network that adhere to the Church's teaching that contraception "is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin".