Sentences with phrase «god inflict pain»

Does God inflict pain on people?

The traditional way of reading Genesis 3:16 has God inflicting pain on Eve and all her daughters because Eve ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

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I just don't see that Jesus reveals this kind of God, a God that is vindictive toward His enemies, who inflicts pain and punishment on people because they go against His will.

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

He wanted to show us that God's role in those violent religious texts is not in the inflicting of pain and suffering of others, but in receiving and suffering that pain along with us.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

I was thinking of how much pain is inflicted on a human body by burning, and wondering if a loving god would really allow that to happen to anyone, regardless of what they had done on earth.

Whatever may be believed about divine judgment — and some things need to be believed about it — it can hardly be thought that the God of Jesus inflicts pain maliciously.

It saddens me that rather than recognize that God is with us in our pain and suffering, crying when we cry, holding us when we tremble, wailing with us in our pain, some people think God is actually the one making us suffer, causing us to cry, inflicting us with fear, and torturing us with pain.

It begins in the very beginning, when God sets out to inflict pain on Eve because she ate the wrong piece of fruit (Genesis 3:16).

It just doesn't seem right for God to inflict pain on Eve for what happened, and not only on Eve, but on all women who follow after her as well.

Persons of mature faith have certitude, the conviction that God is Good and Loving even when circumstances inflict pain and suffering.

I've been told that this must be something temporary, and when I get over the pain inflicted by the last group of «God - hands», I'll once again welcome the opportunity to be a part of a local church.

When we inflict pain on an animal, we inflict pain forever on God.

In this divine pedagogy God inflicts suffering on us in order to help us, and this is sufficient justification for our pain.

McCoy: I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure.