Warren's God is not awesome or angry and does not stand in judgment of human sin.
"It is a story of judgment against sin and a plan of redemption, and grace frames the narrative".
The creed proclaims belief in the Holy Trinity; the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ; the coming judgment of Christ; the remission of sins; the church; and eternal life.
In pre-modern, Western Christendom, the Latin anxietas signified unease that often took its shape within a framework of sin, redemption and eternal judgment.
"It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense," McCain said when a reporter drew attention to Hagee's 2006 statement to National Public Radio that New Orleans had suffered "the judgment of God" because of its "level of sin".
And which religious institution in America sits most directly in moral judgment of this nation's original sin of slavery and all its continuing bigoted manifestations?
Or will Nixon face down Frost and escape public judgment, cheating the American people yet again of an apology, a confession of sin?
He found that the idea of morality in Ancient Greece is more relevant for making judgments about responsibility for the Holocaust than the Judeo-Christian approach, wherein the idea of sin can be blurred by the concepts such as intentional sin, unintentional sin, sinning by thought, or sinning by deed.
New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they... were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
The next step, one Francis is trying to take, is to lift notions of sin and sanctity — and religion itself — above the lower realm of simple black and white judgments.
It reeks, enticingly, of sin.
