Timeline for What's the opposite word for "sin"?
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| Sep 23, 2011 at 18:40 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @Marcin - BTW: If you have further theological issues with stuff I said, might I suggest taking them to christianity.stackexchange.com ? I have an account there too, and they'd probably be much more generally useful there than in comments on a question about antonyms here. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 18:34 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @Marcin - Dunno where you got that. Grace is defined by most Christians as something along the lines of "God's unmerited favor". It generally has nothing to do with sin whatsoever, but rather as something separate that perahps interacts with sin. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_in_Christianity. I'd also suggest looking over en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_depravity. Perhaps you don't agree with them, but these are very common doctrines of Christian theology going back at least to St. Augustine. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 15:18 | comment | added | Marcin | Err, no. If you were correct, there would be no need for the religious use of the word "grace" to refer a state absent sin. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 14:23 | comment | added | T.E.D. | No, in fact it is. There's good discussion of this issue here: drurywriting.com/keith/augustine.conception.of.sin.htm . According to the author, Wesleyan traditions don't nessecarily believe that, but they are rather unique that way. My personal faith happens to be Wesleyan, but you'll notice I was talking about traditional Christian ideology, not mine (or in fact anybody else today's). | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Marcin | I don't know what church you belong to, but this certainly isn't the position of mainstream western (or as far as I know, eastern) churches. | |
| Aug 3, 2011 at 13:59 | history | answered | T.E.D. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |