Sentences with phrase «overcoming evil god»

Overcoming Evil God's Way: The Biblical and Historical Case for Nonresistance by Stephen Russell

Not exact matches

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.

The goal isn't to balance evil and good, but rather to overcome evil with good and connect every human being to God through love.

This child found in Tolkien's epic story of goodness overcoming evil a literary parallel to the divine metanarrative of the Bible, an imaginative path to finding a place in God's epic story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration.

It promotes the idea that violence is God's way of overcoming evil, which he manifested ultimately in killing his Son.

Yes, keep praying and keep faithful, that the good you are doing can and will overcome the evil, in God's time.

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.

If, again, we look at God - become - man we find that as a matter of course and of habit he opened his personality to God not merely to be sure that he was following the divine plan of action but to receive potent spiritual reinforcement for the overcoming of evil.

What is more, God calls humanity to be co-workers with God in overcoming evil, wrong, and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort, and willing response to what we know of God's love and God's purpose for us.

God has in his nature the knowledge of evil, of pain, and of degradation, but it is there as overcome with what is 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.

In this latter case God is not necessarily responsible for the existence of evil; he would only be responsible if it were not finally overcome.

Its leaders did not believe that the society they were building was the Kingdom of God, but they did believe that human obedience to God could usher in a world in which many of the present social evils would be overcome.

«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

«Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God... Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.»

So much for the power of God's love to overcome evil!

«2 The retention of subjective immediacy within the everlastingness of God's nature is seen then as subjective immortality.3 Some argue that subjective immortality is necessary for the religious need of continuity between present hope and future fulfillment, redemption and fulfillment, and the overcoming of evil.4

In particular, the process theology, which conceives of God as working in tenderness and love to overcome the recalcitrant elements of evil and advance the world process by a continuous creation, is consistent with basic notes in Christian faith.

Prescinding now from questions of immortality and the life of God, what hope can we reasonably have for the overcoming of evil in this finite, temporal world of everyday experience?

Process theism, by relinquishing the claim that God could completely control the world in order to overcome the problem of present evil, can not have this traditional assurance about the future.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

God can not guarantee that evil will be overcome simply because he is not the sole agent determining the outcome of the world.

God could also mediate the free actions of such souls to one another, taking care to harmonize any potential conflicts by means of conceptual supplementation, thus overcoming any evil consequent upon the free actions of many actualities acting in concert.

But the «over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization» (PH 526) seems to be effective not in transforming the world and overcoming its evil but in harmonizing its discords in the experience of God.18

But does it mean that the world is transformed and the evil in it overcome, or only that it is included in the harmony of God's experience?

I was going to be killed by my own hands against my will but my defiant will to overcome this evil force prevailed, I waged a mind war over it and my desperation led me to ask help from God.

If God is to overcome evil wholly, there must be some «present» in which the individual fully realizes his / her redemption from evil in the depths of experience.

By freely accepting crucifixion, he demonstrated what a sheep among wolves looks like... Jesus revealed that God, being love, chooses a different path — to suffer evil to overcome it.»

... by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

122 Any meaningful theodicy «can only hope to illuminate the radical love of God that is not overcome by evil, that is poured out inexhaustibly over all creation.»

Out of the bubbling ferment of the revivalistic reform movements arose a series of American attempts to build God's Kingdom on earth, to achieve a genuine utopia where all the present evils would be overcome, where the first fruits of the new age would be visible.

That God's persuasion successfully overcomes the evil of entropy is shown by the fact of the existent universe.

The Whiteheadian God can very well share our suffering, but there is no eschatological guarantee here that evil will be overcome.

When, in the person of Jesus Christ, God steps into the evil of the world, it does not overpower Him, but He overcomes it.

God as an agent is constantly initiating new patterns of order which overcome evil and tend toward greater strength of beauty.

Christians have also believed that the resurrection of Jesus points to God's capacity to overcome evil, at least in the long run for those who trust God.

For it is by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities that God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

What has God promised to those that believe in Christ and overcome evil in this life?

The love of God creates evil so that He can overcome it?

But if Jesus is our example, if being fully human and fully God looks like this carpenter from Nazareth, we know that the evil within ourselves and in this world can not be conquered by hate but must be overcome with love.

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

It's only through God's love, grace, mecry, forgiveness, and His Holy Spirit can we overcome the evil in our own hearts to bring light to this dark world and a hope for eternity in heaven where there will be NO tears, NO pain forever and forever.

The crucifixion is not tragedy that must be overcome by the resurrection but rather stands together with resurrection as God's victory over evil and his conquest of sin.

27 years ago they burned my grand father, father, and sister in a church outside luxor because Allah be mercifull (ha ha) DROVE THEM TO MURDER MOST OF MY FAMILY, they time has come for not only copts but all christians to stand up and destroy the evil of islam, I know that one day, the one true God (JESUS) WILL COME BACK AND SEND THEM TO HELL, but fellow christians do nt be afraid, they think that they are better than us but good always overcomes evil, salam issa masih.

There was no doctrine of predestination, and evil was beyond God's purpose as something to be overcome with good.

Therefore, we identify God with the creative order of the world, a process which transforms human beings, brings values from a potential to an actual state, and works to overcome evil with good.

God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.