Sentences with phrase «great evil gods»

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Maybe evil is the work of the devil, but if god is so great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?

In 2016, he said that God had been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the human person at the center,» and declared that inequality is «the greatest evil that exists.»

The evil they accomplished soon became so great, it threatened the very existence of God's good creation.

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.

Plantinga need only acknowledge that the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.

Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.

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.»

After the great flood, God promised Noah never again to curse the earth, but God's reason was wonderfully arch: «For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth» (Gen. 8:21).

Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

There is some sort of connection, I think, between the sons of God and daughters of men, and their offspring the Nephilim, and how all this relates to the great evil that covered the earth and how Noah was «blameless in his generations» (a very strange Hebrew phrase).

But, there is of course a great deal of evil in the world, and if God is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must be responsible for that evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.

Naturally any view which ascribes ethical perfection and yet the «greatest possible power» to God must face the problem of evil.

Therefore, to break God's law is to do evil, to a lesser or greater extent, and because you will return to and enjoy breaking God's law, humanity is evil.

The word «God» is irrelevant to the religious problem unless the word is used to refer to whatever in truth operates to save man from evil and to the greater good no matter how much this operating reality may differ from all traditional ideas about it (MUC 12).

in fact, the greatest revival of the 20th century o c c ur r ed in the basements of churches where one dr u nk reached out to another and they found god through the very «evil» or «si n» that drove them there.

«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.

I know that You are a God who is gracious and compassionate, taking long to get angry, having great loyalty, and is sorry about doing evil.»

In the midst of great fellowship, God gave Adam critical rules to follow: «Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.»

As in many of his songs, Steve Taylor prophetically calls our nation back to God and away from our tendency to justify great injustice and evil.

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.»

Whereas Pagels discusses second - century theologians who offer alternatives to Augustine's problematic freedom, she ignores the great «heretic» Marcion, who finally concluded that the creator of a world in which there is so much evil is a deeply flawed deity, the very God from whom we must be redeemed.

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.

Secondly, I do not believe that «the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.»

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.

They do nt believe in God but they have served Evil with great success.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

The worst evil we can do is not believe... If a Christian dies in a plane crash, God promises we will not fail to receive a great reward... Ultimately, evil is a problem for those who do not believe only.»

«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

Because we try to discuss God as creative power, and not only as persuasion, and because Whitehead seems to identify God and creativity, we appear to be saying that God is responsible for the endurance of evil as well as presenting to us persuasive lures of greater value.

Assuming that God is incapable of moral evil, Lombardo uses philosophy to lend greater precision to discussions of God's will and intentions and of the human will of Jesus.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Some scripture scholars say you can derive a doctrine of independent evil from the Bible, evil that somehow God can't quite handle, the Great Negation.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inEvil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inevil in it?

It's a great mystery that both evil and God can exist in a single place.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

It is about how people are doing on the inside, that is far greater than any amount of money...... That is why God said LOVE not money (the love of money is the root of all evil)..

I'm Calvinistic enough to say that if I understand that, then whatever God's purposes are, I know that the evil will only make the eventual glory even greater and therefore evil will be absolutely defeated.

But there is no doubt in my mind that God allowed evil because the eventual glory will be greater than if the evil hadn't happened.

Maybe God is truly great because he is the ultimate capacity of all things possible, including evil.

Also, God's use of power and wrath being employed against the wicked is a great comfort, and even can be a source of joy, to those people who are being dominated by evil authorities, which perhaps is not as evident in the USA today but think of the joy for the people when an evil dictatorship is squashed.

In my (abandoned) theory, I argued that the Old Testament portrays God holding back disasters upon people until, as a result of their great evil, they departed from God's protective hand.

It certainly is true that Plantinga has in the past exerted a great deal of effort in attempting to preserve the logical consistency of simultaneous belief in the existence of a good God and evil.

They uniformly maintain instead that God may have had to settle for far less than the best and thus that this world may well contain a great deal of genuine evil (GFE 29 - 44).

Theological determinists ultimately deny that there is any genuine evil — any evil that is not necessary for bringing about some greater good or avoiding some greater evil — and acknowledge instead that each instance of evil is a necessary component in God's perfect creative plan.

First, until quite recently, most of the influential analytic philosophers of religion challenging God's existence in the face of evil had posed the problem as a strictly logical one, and thus Plantinga and other analytic philosophers of religion can hardly be criticized justly for having expended a great deal of effort in response.

For example, according to many translations, the first part of Genesis 6:13 says that because God saw the great evil and violence that was upon the earth, God decided or determined that He would destroy everything living upon it.

The war was promoted as a «just war» — the argument that when a war meets certain philosophical or religious purposes, for the greater good or rescue of people from evil, that it is considered «just» in the eyes of God and his people, an inescapable path for doing good through evil means.

The relationship of the cross to our salvation, the connection between the suffering of Christ and human suffering, the need for God to become physically entangled in the world's evil and pain — this is too great a mystery for intellectual comprehension.

A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.