Sentence examples for negative confession from inspiring English sources
James was a Calvinist, and he had once signed the Negative Confession of 1581 favouring the Puritan position.
After the deceased had enumerated the many sins he had not committed (the so-called negative confession), the heart was weighed against the feather of Maʿat (i.e., against what was deemed right and true).
For every "I have not... ...... in the Negative Confession, it is possible to read an unexpressed "Thou shalt not".
The judgement of the dead and the Negative Confession were a representation of the conventional moral code which governed Egyptian society.
There, the dead person swore that he had not committed any sin from a list of 42 sins, reciting a text known as the "Negative Confession".
Views differ among Egyptologists about how far the Negative Confession represents a moral absolute, with ethical purity being necessary for progress to the Afterlife.
The Council argues that the biblical Greek word often translated as "confess" literally translates as "to speak the same thing", and refers to both positive and negative confessions.
In 1980, the General Council of the Assemblies of God criticized the doctrine of positive confession, noting examples of negative confessions in the Bible (where Biblical figures express fears and doubts) that had positive results and contrasting these examples with the focus on positive confessions taught by prosperity theology.
That way, you at least set yourself up to accept that your friend could either be receptive or negative about your confession, allowing you to develop a mindset in advance for coping with either outcome.
He later wrote "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner" (1991), an essay in which he apologized for his strategy in that campaign, believing it un-Christian.
The following year, Mike Pence wrote an essay, carried by local newspapers, titled "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner," in which he said, "A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate".
