Assertion: despair | /r/HasProperty | sin
Facets:
value: against hope
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Despair Is Sin
text: Despair is therefore not only a sin, but a principle of sins.
text: Despair Is Sin
text: Whether Despair is a Sin
text: Again, if despair were a sin, it would be a sin for the damned to despair.
text: Yes, we know Kierkegaard thought of despair as sin, but is despair “a” sin?
text: Anti-Climacus says that despair is sin, and the only way to escape sin is to put complete faith in God.
text: In the Concept of Anxiety, as we have said more than once, a sinful deed leads to sinfulness; even so, in the state of despair in relation to God, despair itself, which is sin, leads to sinful deeds.
text: Since a person is an individual "before God", either he dwells in despair (sin) or he approaches God through faith to receive the forgiveness of sins.
text: Now we see why, though despair and presumption are both sins against hope, despair is worse.
text: Therefore despair is not only a sin but also the origin of other sins.