Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting in Denver-so discreetly handled, for the censors' sake, that it all seems to have been managed by pollination-Mr. Douglas gets Miss Hepburn with child. After the child grows up to be Robert Walker and has paid the inevitable price for his mother's sin (i.e., he gets killed off), the picture is quickly put out of its misery...
...University of Geneva's Professor William E. Rappard pointed to Germany as the nation which had done most to make "her scholars the intellectual bodyguard of her warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...
...message of Calvinism to modern man is that he must repent from his idolatry, which is his greatest and root sin. His idolatry, in that he has made a God of himself and made a problem of the living God of the Scriptures...
...Church, the effort of man is motivated by the redemption of the original sin which was permitted by God. Whereas for us it is made necessary by the survival in man of the ancestral memories against which he alone can fight. As the 'original sin' was nothing but the animal obedience to appetites, and the disregard of human dignity, the similarity is striking...
...angel fallen from heaven, and as 'the Prince of this world' whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven, there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge; and if there is no judgment, then evil is good and good is evil." The Great Humanitarian. "But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself, that he would deceive even the elect...