Sentences with phrase «god saw the evil»

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Your disgusting evil god is nowhere to be seen, fortunately no matter what you think the voices in your head are telling you.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

So, let's see, before we go any further, is your god benevolent in nature, or evil, or simply disinterested?

Also, these later other evils in classical Christian cosmology are not caused by the God v. Satan battle simply in that they occur after Satan's initial rebellion, but are caused by a battle Christians have typically seen as ongoing and continuous.

It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good things.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Hgod you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject HGod is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.

Oh, I'm sure he probably does see evil in the world as uaelmlttiy deriving from God v. Satan.

«The God that I worship would never, ever want to see evil done,» he said.

So you see, if a man says he's an atheist here, we don't waste time tryin to convice there exist higher powers, evil, and logically God.

your so right, it is so sad to see people criticising God and at the end of the day God Exists and always will regardless of the evil that is said against Him.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirGod to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirGod has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirgod of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

See his God, Power, and Evil: A Process Theodicy (GPE), chapters 6 & 7.

Given the above analysis, nonmoral evils do not have to be seen as incompatible with the goodness of the classical God.

If you were to base your definitions of «good» and «evil» on human society, well, it's easy to see how people would consider God to be evil.

When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.

For us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow God.

And since all parties agree that there are intrinsically possible worlds containing no evil at all, every instance of evil in the actual world must be seen as a necessary, desired aspect of God's perfect plan.

Is there also the possibility that God is fighting Evil in a realm that we can't see with our eyes?

The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God.

We tend to see death as the ultimate evil thing that can happen and any death as the failure of God to preserve life.

In conclusion it is appropriate to point out that God was always in control of the entire situation, which is why such evil that radiated from Satan was always limited by God's control (Job 1:12; 2:6), and the end saw Satan condemned (Job 42:7 - 8), whilst upright Job was blessed (Job 42:12 - 17)

You say: «To understand God, Scripture, ourselves, other people, human history, and everything else, we must begin at the cross, and we must see it as evil.

I am of opinion this is not when we misjudge a charismatic event and call it evil, for elsewhere, «Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world,» (1 John 4:1), and «For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.»

This is what we are going to learn about today, as we see how God brought the violent and evil empire of Assyria to its knees in sorrow and repentance.

Indeed most ancient jews saw the devil not as an incarnation of evil but as god's prosecutor.

And Christian theology has always seen this terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

If God exists and is all good, we must have evidence that all of the evil we see are for a higher purpose.

The radical message of the God of the Bible is most clearly seen in the cross which tells us two things: 1) We are worse off than we want to admit (the evil * we have done * means we ALL deserve to die — who killed Jesus?

A monistic, panentheistic position can not avoid this conclusion.29 In a physical, biological, historico - cultural evolutionary process as complex as the universe, much that is evil from various perspectives will occur, and if one sees this process as God's self - expression, then God is involved in evil.

In fact, they go beyond doubt and accuse God of abandoning them, being deaf, not caring about their desperate situation and allowing evil to triumph (to see what I mean look at Psalm 10, 13, 22, 89, 94... just to name a few of them).

That joy of being rescued opens our vision so we can see the presence of God and the true reality beyond the natural (tree, good and evil) which includes God

And whenever those who had evil spirits in them saw him, they would fall down before him and scream, «You are the Son of God.»

All things, seen and unseen point to the fact that there is a God, a Creator, the Divine Designer, anf there is an evil being, whose evidence is so clearly seen also.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

That is, God had to make us capable of evil, so that in our wretchedness he could show us the power of a love that sees sin quite realistically, but wipes it away and gives us to share in his own power of loving.

Look to our founders words and words written on our publice buildings «IN God We Trust» and when since we have taken Him out of our places of every day life (each still chosing to worship how, when and what they may) we have seen more and more evil and lack of personal responsibility happening.

Caligula, the Roman emperor also fit, that is why he through he was a god, And one of the Herod's, the real evil one that killed John the Baptist, presided over Jesus's second trail himself, mocking Jesus, saying let me see you do a trick, magician.

Therefore, I see any argument against God / religion involving people or evil to be invalid, unnecessary or irrelevant.

Today, we will see why the death that will come from eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is not a punishment from God, but is actually a blessing... and we will also see how the command to not eat from the tree is the final touch on the temple that God has built.

«The consequent nature of God is added to meet the awful fact of evil which Whitehead sees and feels so keenly» Quoting from Process and Reality V, I, Wieman spoke of Whitehead's great sensitivity to the tragedy of the loss of beauty, richness, and value.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

Likewise, wrestle as we may with the problem of evil, the heart of the matter is found in the great refrain of this Genesis story after the account of each «day» of creation, which says, «And God saw that it was good.»

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

If there is a particular correspondence in Abraham to the first Israel (Exodus and Settlement) and in Jacob to the second (the period of the Kingdoms), something of the same correspondence is to be seen in Joseph to the third Israel, to her profound hope that out of willful intention of evil, out of the consequent judgment of destruction and tragedy, God would yet through human means raise up the tribes of Jacob and bring his light of redemption to all the earth.

More importantly, I do not believe the actual world «contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free agents» God could have actualized; I see no reason to think there is any such world.

The people of this world who reject God and proudly declare their independence from Him will sink into deeper and deeper darkness, and as the time progresses, we will see more of evil manifesting itself.

The renewal of the world is the Christian hope, and even though, because of our mortal limited lives, like Moses we do not live to witness the consummation, but see it only in embryo, it is sufficient reward to have been used by God in this mighty process of the redemption of the world from the evil, suffering and misery to which man himself has contributed.

I see the universe as a perfect and balanced place created by god in his own special way, he is all powerful and evil does not exit rather the ability to have freedom of will.