But Adam, being a finite being, could not commit an infinite sin; and Christ's sacrifice and sufferings could not be infinite, unless he had continued to suffer to all eternity.
No doctrine stands out more prominently as a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith than that which makes God appear a circumscribed, finite being.
The notion of being is so universal that it transcends all actual and conceivable determinate modes of being: it embraces infinite being and all modes of finite being.
Duns Scotus and those who think with him contend that the concept of being, derived as it is from our experience of finite being, if applied only analogically to infinite being would give us no genuine knowledge about the latter.
Considering the order in which we acquire our ideas we are easily convinced that the notion of finite being is antecedent to that of infinite being.
This view explains sin as a necessary result of the limitations of man's finite being.
It is a necessary consequence of this that the self-consciousness of a finite being is bound up with the consciousness of the infinite.
But in order that we may think of a finite being, we must necessarily cut off or deduct something from the general notion of being, which consequently we must previously possess.
He is a finite being, whose power is infinitely surpassed by the power of other beings to which he is related.
An infinite being must be conditionless, and for that reason there is nothing that a finite being can do that can by any possibility affect the well-being of the conditionless.
Nothing can be nearer self-evident than the fact that a finite beingcannot commit an infinite sin; neither can a finite being do an infinitely good deed.
But being a finite being, he cannot suffer infinite punishment in quality.
First; he is a finite being; and can a finite being do on infinite wrong?
He held that it belonged to the very essence of finite being that it be conceived in a continual flow, in an endless stream.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finite being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
