Yet if God proclaimed Jesus to be God's Beloved, with whom God was "well pleased," as a fully-human sinner like you and me, then the moment I actually believe this is the moment Jesus saves me - saves me not from God's judgment and condemnation but from my own.
You really should try not to become a junky, you should try not to shoplift--these are breaches in judgment, and we shouldn't judge people for these breaches in judgment because we're all human and sinners, and we all make mistakes.
Remember also that humans are sinners.
"Those who really follow the pope daily know how many times he has spoken about sin and our (human) condition as sinners," Lombardi said.
Deeply troubled by the question of justification of how a human being, a sinner, may be justified (saved) in God's sight Luther found no comfort in monastic routine and turned to an exploration of the sources of Christian doctrine, notably St .Paul and St . Augustine
Such theories, in Royce's account, explain that in contemplating Christ's willing sacrifice of his own life for the sake of the human community, the sinner experiences deep repentance and develops a new capacity for love of the betrayed community.
5) My daughter gets to see her birth mom a couple times a year, and emails / phone calls -- she sees her as a full human being: neither sinner nor saint.
Sinners are human, and a little room for compassion or mitigating circumstances is an essential part of any humane legal system.
Practically every church contained frescoes or sculptures depicting the horrors of hell – devils gouging out the eyes of screaming sinners, living humans skinned and eternally roasted – contrasted with the peace, tranquillity, and safety of heaven for the saved.
That matter has been admirably addressed in Michael Marissen's little book, "Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism and Bach's St. John Passion," which makes a persuasive case that Bach's own theological gloss in the work assigns responsibility for Jesus' death to all sinners, thus all humans.
