Sentences with phrase «god inflicts upon»

Punishment is not something God inflicts upon others when He is slighted.

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All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the christian god andhet will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

All you have to do is be obdurate in rejecting the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty....

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.

They even teach their children to discriminate against non-members and my young son suffered permanent emotional damage inflicted upon him by little Mormon boys (who picked on and bullied my son in our neighborhood) who think they're going to be Gods with their own planets some day!

If god were merciful, she would not have inflicted the likes of you upon those of us who actually think.

By unnecessarily and cruelly inflicting suffering and death upon children / infants as the collateral damage of god's decision to exterminate their parents when these children / infants were incapable of a free will choice to engage evil or reject god.

All you have to do is reject a belief in the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty....

Paul's own second letter to the Thessalonians had looked forward to that day in which the Lord Jesus would be revealed «in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the Gospel» (1:8).

You only need to read the story of Job to see that Satan ASKS God permission to inflict woe upon him.

They may object, for instance, to the proposition that God loves the creatures on the ground that it is a strange love which expresses itself by acting as God does, inflicting upon the loved ones numerous sufferings, the well - behaved ones being victims along with the wicked or unkind.

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the Christian god and he will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

God took upon himself what he inflicted on Ahab, just as he took upon himself and suffered the massacre of Ahab's house according to his own judgment.

After listening to a denial that God inflicts tragedies randomly, the journalist intervened with: «I don't understand what you are trying to say... What you seem to be arguing for is a slot machine God... the suffering that has been imposed upon the people of Haiti, many of them clearly innocent, is random.»

In his First Letter to the Thessalonians he speaks of the coming divine judgment, in which Jesus will inflict vengeance «upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

You claim that any loving God would not inflict such misery upon his people, which is akin to a 3 year old throwing a temper tantrum because his daddy won't give him any more candy.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

We might have earned it, but WE DID NOT CAUSE the suffering or the hell, god inflicts or allows upon us.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.