Albert obtained permission from Pope Leo X to conduct the sale of a special plenary indulgence (i.e., remission of the temporal punishment of sin), half of the proceeds of which Albert was to claim to pay the fees of his benefices.
The Tutanjai ("Mud and Soot Retreat, or Retreat of Misery") was a ceremony of collective contrition, with the purpose of fending off disease, the punishment of sin, by prior confession; in Chinese civil law, confession resulted in an automatic reduction or suspension of sentence.
Symbol structures and pictorial representations are brought into connection with dogma and theological statements—e.g., the Buddhistic karma-samsara (law of cause and effect and reincarnation) theory and the bodhisattva (buddha-to-be) theory or the Christian teaching of the Last Judgment, punishment of sin, hell and purgatory, and eternal reward (Paradise).
Erastus maintained that excommunication is unscriptural, that the sacraments should not be withheld from anyone genuinely wishing to receive them, and that in a Christian society and Erastus explicitly limited his argument in this manner the punishment of sins is in the hands of the civil magistrates.
Remember that God requires each one to repent: ". " (2 Peter 3 9), individually, and be saved (be born again)... Be sure to receive your free gift, intended for everyone that would believe and seek it: be saved from having to endure the punishment of sins, through Jesus Christ His Son.
He reckoned Ebola is the next wave of punishment for sin - a result of bad lifestyle choices.
Paul regarded suffering and premature death as punishment for those who sinned (1 Corinthians 5 5; 11 29 32) but did not believe that punishment of the sinning Christian meant damnation or eternal destruction.
Pope Benedict XVI plans to grant special indulgences -- remittances of punishment for sins -- to hundreds of thousands of young Roman Catholics expected to attend the church's World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, this month.
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read by Adjoa Andoh 7hrs 30mins, abridged, Harper £16.99 Eugene, a staunch Christian, is revered in his Igbo community in Nigeria, but at home he's vicious in his punishment of perceived sins.
In 1452, during the posthumous investigation into her execution, the Church declared that a religious play in her honor at Orléans would allow attendees to gain an indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for sin) by making a pilgrimage to the event.
Iva Gueorguieva's "Liars" are punished for their mendacity by being carried into a hellish maelstrom, and a tornado sweeps up a pair of lovers in Nicola Verlato's "Mothers," which suggests similar punishment for sins of the flesh.
