Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elements in the Reformation was the question of "justification," the role of faith in relation to good works in justifying a sinner in the eyes...
Neither the Supreme Court nor anyone else has the right to decide what is right or wrong for others. If abortion is a sin, a power greater than our high court will take care of both sin and sinner in its own time...
...week's end the White House propagandists were savoring a bit of Sanskrit wisdom: "The anger of a good man lasts an instant; that of a meddler two hours; that of a base man a day and a night; and that of a great sinner until death." Reagan, they insisted, was instant smiles. Arnold was still sore...
...sure, Jesus offers the downtrodden some consolation: in the afterlife, things will be reversed, and the virtuous poor will have their rewards, and the evil sinner his punishment. But so long as they are alive on the earth, the injunction is to turn the other check and await God's justice. (Jesus gives the reader a small foretaste of divine righteousness when he curses a fig tree, which promptly withers...
Alex Haley, 60, celebrated Roots author, on the Tennessee of his youth: "White or black, it didn't matter. You were classified in the Bible Belt South as either Methodist, Baptist or sinner...