Quotes About Sins

Jesus had been raised from the dead; therefore, he really was Israel's Messiah; therefore his death really was the new Passover; his death really had dealt with the sins that had caused "exile" in the first place; and this had been accomplished by Jesus's sharing and bearing the full weight of evil, and doing so alone. In his suffering and death, "Sin" was condemned. The darkest of dark powers was defeated, and its captives were set free.

Victory over the powers, once more, is accomplished through the forgiveness of sins.

When we see the victory of Jesus in relation to the biblical Passover tradition, reshaped through the Jewish longing for the "forgiveness of sins" as a liberating event within history, we see the early Christian movement not as a "religion" in the modern sense at all, but as a complete new way of being human in the world and for the world.

Idolatry is thus the hidden sin driving all other sins.

When we displease our Father in heaven, we don't feel like we are His children. But once we confess our sins and receive forgiveness, our assurance returns and our faith grows.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

The idea of God opening up my life, and seeing all the secrets of my heart, the heart that I know all too well, that idea is frightening to me. I use that fear to drive me to live this day, the only day that I have control of to live for God. I cannot change my sins of yesteryear, nor even of yesterday, and I do not know what the uncertain tides of the future may bring, but I can take the now, this present day, and turn it towards worshipping and loving my God.

What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." I had written the line some years before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

When Jesus Christ started His public ministry, the very first work accomplished by Him was the work of taking-on all our sins by receiving baptism in the Jordan River.

Through the last High Priest called John the Baptist, who was the representative of all humankind, Jesus took-on all the sins of all people.

We know that in the Old Testament times God chose Aaron to be the High Priest of Israel for 40 years. We also need to know that God had forever entrusted this High Priesthood to all of his descendants, and therefore there should be no lacking of belief that John the Baptist is indeed the representative of all of humankind, and as the priest who has passed all the sins of humankind onto Jesus.

it was John the Baptist who testified, "Having taken-on the sins of the world by His baptism, Jesus carried them all away to the Cross.

Jesus personally bore witness to the fact that John the Baptist passed-on all the sins of the world onto Him. The Words in Matthew 11:12 bear witness that the sins of the world that being, all the sins of mankind were been passed onto Jesus by John baptizing Jesus.

As the representative of all mankind - John the Baptist was the one who passed the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptizing Him.

sacrificial offering that would make the sins of this world disappear and being baptized by him, Jesus fulfilled the prophesy about

Only in this form could the prophecies of the Old Testament be fulfilled, and it becomes possible for us to believe in God in the proper way. Because the High Priesthood is something set eternally by God, the sins of the world had to be passed-on through the baptism given to Jesus

Priest. In like manner, Jesus accepted all the sins of this world 'once and for al'l through the baptism

It Is Clear That John the Baptist Was the High Priest Who Was Entitled to Baptise Jesus by Laying His Hands on Jesus' Head to Atone for the Sins of the World

John the Baptist carried out the priesthood of passing-on the sins of humankind onto Jesus, who was sacrificial Lamb of God.

the Baptist placed both his hands on Jesus' head was to pass-on all the sins of the world.

Because God always used a representative priest to pass-on the sins of people onto a sacrificial lamb, He had to send John the Baptist. Therefore

The second baptism was different from the first one as this was carried out when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, and this was the baptism that passed-on all the sins of the world onto the body of Jesus. John the Baptist bore witness for those who had received the baptism of repentance before God, and to believe in Jesus who had taken-on and carried the sins of the world away by His baptism.

The phrase here, "For John came to you in the way of righteousness," speaks of the work of John the Baptist, the last High Priest of the Old Testament (Matthew 11:13), who passed-on all the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptism. Why do you think tax collectors and the harlots believed in the baptism of Jesus where John the Baptist passed-on the sins of the world onto Jesus?