Christ in Post-Christian Culture
TO UNDERSTAND TEMPTATION is to understand our tendency to sin; what Christian theology calls our "sin nature." Detractors often argue that it is possible to go through your entire life without committing murder, adultery, rape, theft; without cheating on your taxes or watching porn. I agree. However, to suggest that we have the human capacity …
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Written by Steven Barto, B.S. Psy., M.A. Theology WHEN IT COMES TO appetites, we must be able to choose. To allow our appetites to choose for us is the hallmark of obsession and addiction. Mastery over our appetites is not out of reach, but it often feels that way while in the grips of an …
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"Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God;' for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one; but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it …
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He stood, sweating, gazing over the vastness of what looked like nothingness; hot, glaring, monochromatic landscape, broken only by an occasional dune. His eyes batted against the stinging bits of sand encircling his head as He tried to catch His breath. He was, after all, Jesus in a mortal body. He was hungry. He had …
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He stood, sweating, gazing over the vastness of what looked like nothingness; hot, glaring, monochromatic landscape, broken only by an occasional dune. His eyes batted against the stinging bits of sand encircling his head as He tried to catch His breath. He was, after all, Jesus in a mortal body. He was hungry. He had …
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