Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is sin? Until relatively recently, American Protestant thought might be expected to give a simple and traditional answer to that question: sin, staining all men since the Fall, is the willful disobedience of God's law. After the theological battle between fundamentalism and liberalism, that answer was no...
"We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'E's' in our language is disgrasful. Therfor, in 1961, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of eduka-tion. Sins by this tim...
Love of Law. Twice a day they celebrated a solemn communion meal, with blessing of bread and wine. This, says Scholar Cross, was "a liturgical anticipation of the Messianic banquet" in the coming kingdom-a concept that was a common theme in the Judaism of the time. Another regular practice...
John baptized like the Essenes to "repentance for the remission of sins," he proclaimed the end of the world, and though he attacked the Scribes and Pharisees as "generation of vipers" and worse, he seems not to have mentioned the Essenes at all. But on the other hand, John broke...
Ovid was banished from Rome for the last nine years of his life, possibly for some act so flagrant that he himself thought it too scandalous to confide to posterity. It can be said of Ovid, as Hilaire Belloc once hoped for himself: "His sins were scarlet, but his books...