Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your analogy concerning Whittaker Chambers and the publican is not only inconsistent but ludicrous. This "humble" publican has performed no ablution, but rather has come out of the temple to sell his sins. Whittaker Chambers is an emotional, not a rational man. This is shown from his grasp of "faiths...
* There is biblical backing for either usage. In the Greek version of the Lord's Prayer as recorded by Matthew (6:12), the word used is opheilemata, best translated "debts" or "that which is owed" (Latin: debita). In Luke's shorter version of the prayer (11:4), the...
¶ Appointed a committee to consider whether the wording of the Lord's Prayer should be changed from "Forgive us our debts" (Presbyterian usage) to "Forgive us our sins"* or a "similar phrase." The motion to change came from the Nebraska City Presbytery, which argued that present-day Christians...
"I have been painfully sketching the personal sins and follies of a weak man . . . Out of my weakness and folly (but also out of my strength), I committed the characteristic crimes of my century . . . the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of...
"I am only incidentally a witness to a weak man's sins and misdeeds or even the crimes that are implicit in the practice of Communism. In so far as I am a true witness, it is because twice in my life I came, not alone, for I had...