Yet Bonaventura, as a doctor of the Church, was careful to limit her sinlessness to sin arising with herself, and not to include the absence of inherited sin.
Christ's relative sinlessness became more and more absolute sinlessness by his own moral act, or the right use of his freedom in the perfect active and passive obedience to God.
The first impression which we receive from the life of Jesus, is that of perfect innocency and sinlessness in the midst of a sinful world.
His sinlessness was at first only the relative sinlessness of Adam before the fall, which implies the necessity of trial and temptation, and the peccability, or the possibility of the fall.
If the "higher life" means utter sinlessness then I shall have to own that I have never had any experience of it.
The subject of sin versus sinlessness is the vexed question, on which, as fast as most people get or think they get light, somebody comes along and snuffs out their candles with unceremonious finger and thumb.
And if Jesus Christ is only one of the series, then there is no deliverance in Him, for there is no sinlessness in that life.
It underlies, for instance, the personal sinlessness of Jesus Christ, and hence His power to bring a new beginning of pure and perfect life into the midst of humanity.
Jesus' consciousness of his absolute sinlessness and of his perfect communion with God is the strongest of testimonies to his divine nature and mission.
And for no other was this claim ofsinlessness ever intelligently made.
And this claim of sinlessness for Christ is to be urged, not so much because of any special statements by Christ as because of that remarkable fact to which Dr.
Sinlessness was a matter of choice with Him, and of choice insisted upon.
His sinlessness cannot be accounted for unless he were God; for, sinlessness and holiness come alone from God and, as essential qualities, take their rise alone in God.
His sinlessnessand holiness cannot be accounted for on natural grounds.
By his obedience learned in his sufferings, by his sinlessnessunder all trials and temptations, he fulfilled the conditions of deathlessness.
The whole passage is quoted on a farther page, but it may be stated here that the descending dove certifies the sinlessness of Jesus before his baptism.
The sacredness of the blood of Jesus was that it was the price he had to pay to the devil in order to preserve his sinlessness, and so rise from death, and demonstrate to others that they also could rise by sinlessness to eternal life.
The sinlessness of this soul thus became transformed from a fact into a necessity, and the real God-man arose, in whom divinity and humanity are no longer separated.
The result of baptism was universally considered to be forgiveness of sins, and this pardon was supposed to effect an actual sinlessness which now required to be maintained.
The sinlessness of the Son, Whose will was always in perfect agreement with that of His Father, has always been the inspiration of the saint, and at the same time the great attraction of His personality to the sinner.
The absolute sinlessnessof Christ is one of the chief proofs held out to us of His divinity.
Only thus could the divinity and sinlessness of Jesus Christ be firmly established.
Christ's absolute sinlessnessmade Him eligible, His humility and willingness rendered Him acceptable to the Father, as the atoning sacrifice whereby propitiation could be made for the sins of all men.
Some would explain the story of the miraculous birth as a conclusion drawn by the Christian consciousness from the doctrine of the sinlessness of Jesus.
In this origin of Jesus' sinlessness from his union with God, we see the absurdity, both doctrinally and practically, of speaking of an immaculate conception of the Virgin, and of making her sinlessness precede that of her Son.
As respects us, his sufferings are substitutionary, since his divinity and his sinlessness enable him to do for us what we could never do for ourselves.
Mullins properly regards this view of atonement as too narrow, inasmuch as it disregards the differences between Christ and men arising from his sinlessness and his deity.
No matter what John's personal feelings were, or the sinlessness and purity of Jesus, it became the duty of one as the administrator and the other as the subject to observe this divine appointment.
While he did not know Jesus to be the Christ, he knew Him as his kinsman, and he knew enough of the purity and sinlessness of His life to think that He should not confess His sins to be baptized for their remission.
The ripest saint upon the earth feels that if his salvation depended on his perfect sinlessness in conduct for the rest of life, the chances of heaven would at once become dark and hopeless.
It was not felt that any further thought about hersinlessness was needed.
The question of the sinlessness of the prophets is one to which considerable attention has been paid by Muslim theologians.
What a solemn attestation of universal sinfulness is in these words of Christ's, and how calmly He separates Himself by His sinlessness from us!
The very sinlessness of Christ can be in a measure incorporated with our humanity, and we should aim after the mind that was in Christ.
He contributed to the Studien und Kritiken, a quarterly established by himself and Umbreit, an article on the sinlessness of Christ, which he subsequently elaborated into a volume.
And here also the Psalm is entirely applicable to Christ, since (as we shall see in the next chapter) His sinlessness was a striking feature in His character.
For the moral teaching of its Founder is shown to be not only the most perfect the world has ever seen, but it is combined with a sense of entire sinlessness which is absolutely unique among men.
Sinlessness of those who have been sinners will be more intensely lustrous for its dark background in the past.
But because He took the sins of the world His sinlessness was defiled with the sinfulness of the world.
By faith alone can we become righteous, for faith invests us with the sinlessness of Christ.
Nor did His personal sinlessness make this impossible or unreal; rather it intensified it.
The perfect pattern of mankind must in one material respect be as far as possible isolated and removed from the race He came to redeem: for sinlessness is a part of the Divine thought concerning human nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chastity; cleanliness; finish; infallibility; purity
