Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes too rapid development without proper planning created a gap between what was vital and necessary for the national existence and what people wanted to improve their standard of living. It is no sin for a human being to long for better living conditions, but Israeli society, as a whole, grabbed at materialistic symbols while establishing a moral justification: "We who are ready to sacrifice our lives for the state should enjoy life...
...EIGHT SIN by Stefan Kanfer Random House; 288 pages...
...directed to make evident that it is a different sort of martyrdom to consent to rape than to whipping. Marre does not need to treat her brother's condemnation as something simply exasperating. And if she is being icy and holier-than-thou--well, snootiness does not constitute the sin of pride...
...Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. The film, he says in a Christianity Today review, offers the dangerous illusion "that somewhere out there are unknown but benevolent powers that will ultimately cause everything to turn out all right." That, complains Brown, entirely bypasses God's judgment upon sin and Christ's incarnation to save man. To him, the film is bad science fiction, used to convey "the contentless mysticism that is so popular in a skeptical but still deeply credulous and spiritualistic...
...fallen mankind from spreading. David Fetcho of the cult-fighting Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, Calif., has developed similar ideas. He insists in the S.C.P. Journal that it is unlikely that an "unfallen" race would visit earth. The reason: God would not want to contaminate the visitors with sin. Moreover, they could teach us nothing that God has not already said in the Bible. If races are "fallen," he reasons, they would lack the supertechnology to span the light years and make contact with each other. But Fetcho suspects that we probably are alone. To him, the Bible seems...