Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of Hell certainly exists. "Some form of punishment, in the next world if not in this, may be necessary if sinners are to be brought to a realization of what their rebellion has meant to God in the rejection of his love and the frustration of his purpose. Sin involves separation from God . . . We have said that to be in Heaven is to be with God and with his redeemed. Hell is to be without God and without the fellowship of those who love him and rejoice in his presence. The farther we get away from God, the farther...
...believe that every human being inevitably becomes involved in sin and cannot attain salvation without God's intercession, even though man does not merit...
...than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's over-whelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...
Hell on Earth. As a result, said Dr. Mowrer. "not only have we disavowed the connection between manifest misconduct and psychopathology, we have also very largely abandoned belief in right and wrong, virtue and sin.'' The idea that man can have the benefits of an orderly social life, without paying for it through restraints and sacrifices, said Dr. Mowrer, is "a subversive doctrine...
Instead of the "salvationist's vision" of a future hell. Dr. Mowrer suggested: "There is a very tangible and very present hell on this earth. It is this-the hell of neurosis and psychosis-to which sin and unexpiated guilt lead us. If it proves true that certain forms of conduct characteristically lead to emotional instability, what better or firmer basis would one wish for labeling such conduct as destructive, self defeating, evil, sinful...