Sentences with phrase «god than an evil»

10 Voltaire did not present his views on God in a straightforward manner but seems to have come to the conclusion, particularly regarding the effects of the Lisbon earthquake, that he would rather worship a limited God than an evil one.

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= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

So how can I think someone is evil that under the eyes of God is no different than me?

@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.

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evgod did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evGod did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

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.

For the Holy Spirit to share His dwelling place with an evil spirit, or to get replaced by the evil spirit, would imply that the evil spirit was more powerful than God.

I wonder if the suffering and evil in this world and the glory of God are tensions lived in more than expectations realized?

844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

Happier, OR, maybe one was markedly more evil than just an enemy - sacrificing young children to their gods - and God decided there was no saving them.

Plantinga, however does affirm I2, in that he does believe that God could have unilaterally «brought about» a world containing no evil if he had chosen not to create at all or to actualize a possible world containing no self - determining individuals other than himself.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

A god who chooses people for eternal literal fire (Romans 9) and causing / allowing evil (rape, torture, child abuse, etc) means he looks more like Molech than the God of love revealed in Jesgod who chooses people for eternal literal fire (Romans 9) and causing / allowing evil (rape, torture, child abuse, etc) means he looks more like Molech than the God of love revealed in JesGod of love revealed in Jesus.

Although my life (as I knew it) was destroyed by egos creating evil in my life, the blessings were / are that I'm closer to God than ever.

Our first hopeful objectives as humans is to decide that Good id better than Evil and that we want to be part of one over the other (while humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we're still not there yet).

Who is more evil than one who conceals a testimony he has learned from God?

The evil desire to invalidate someone — to make them somehow less than me and therefore less able to share in the blessings of God — is the opposite of the wisdom that comes from heaven, which is full of mercy AND impartiality (James 3:16).

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy, slaves who do nt allow there master to sleep with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!

The guy committed genocide more than once, and as evil as they claim Lucifer is, he doesn't even come close to the destruction caused by god.

There are people who believe in God who actually demonstrate a better understanding of science, logic and reason than Lucifer's Evil Twin.

So when God said to Adam that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die I read it more as a threat than as a warning.

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?

«God loves you, no matter who you are or what you've done» sounds much better than «you're gonna burn in a lake of fire if you don't change your evil ways!»

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.

To me, a perfect judgement and sentence of the evil person would require more than just a punishment in eternal flame, since he would still be capable of cursing God, fostering hatred and perversion and all sorts of other humanly sinful ways while he was being eternally tormented.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

So Mister Jeffress thinks that the eschatological prediction of doomsday on May 21 is more damaging to Christianity than the prediction of «rapture» preached by Southern Baptists which will teleport born again Christians to heaven while God brings all forms of natural disasters, disease, suffering, and evil upon the rest of mankind.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

This is more than a verbal difference, for the one takes the world's evil as its base line, the other takes God's goodness as it has been made manifest in Jesus.

What if God mourns with us and hates the pain and evil more than we do?

It's more important to God that we be able to choose between good and evil (if he chooses for us, the choice is meaningless) than that he prevent us from doing evil.

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

And although no evil is stronger than the will of God, He allows the enemy to work in this world as a test of our failth.

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

The house incorporates the bricks, but is more than the bricks; God incorporates our evils, but is more than our evils.

He notes that this no more makes God evil than a house made of small bricks makes the house itself small.

and the history of your corrupt and evil church shows that those who believe in god are no more moral than anyone else for having» god» on their side.

Yet the cross is not the end, for life is stronger than death, love is the conqueror of hate, and God is the vanquisher of the evil imaginations of sinful men and women.

The «more than» is decisive, for the evils God receives are like impulses that God then renders into a richness of contrast, supplementing evil with its ideal complement, and so achieving aesthetic harmony.

God requires more than just faith; he also requires that we stop doing evil and perform acts of kindness.

With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.

He points out that serving God with the «evil urge» is like psychoanalytic «sublimation» in that it makes creative use of basic energies rather than suppressing them.

Evil is a tag we put on an action, it is not proof of God or the Devil or of Demons or Boogy Men any more than my missing socks are proof that gnomes steal them.

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

This occurs when one does the law and his motive springs from his knowledge of good and evil rather than his union with God.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz