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...rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted. And Christ set almost impossible standards for us. Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust in his heart has already committed...
These days most politicians are happy to call themselves conservative, and liberalism has become the sin that dares not speak its name. The September issue of Commentary in a symposium called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...
MacLeod admires Carter for being honest enough to say he is born again. She says institutional sin exists on a large scale, and there's no individual to take responsibility or feel the guilt. Carter wants to make the American people believe he is morally responsible; he is direct about that, she says...
What makes better sense, she says, than an upright and moral Baptist to appeal to the Republicans who can't respond to the Republican Party because of the institutional sin that Ford just swept under...
...Abyss of Sin. Like many a Christian before him, John Wright has been touched by the "good news" of Jesus' life, teachings and atoning death-the redemptive message that Anglo-Saxons dubbed the godspel and early Greek Christians called the euangelion. Among modern American Protestants, enthusiasts like Wright are identified as evangelicals because they give an urgent priority to spreading the gospel announcement. They want every human being to experience the truth that Jesus died to redeem him from the abyss of sin; they preach that faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour is necessary for salvation, that...