Sentences with phrase «about evil as»

He is explicitly talking about evil as «an intellectual or theoretical problem.»

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Whenever I hear folks whine about the evils of capitalism and corporate America — how corporations are not people — I wish they could understand that it's not the size of an organization that matters, but how well it maintains an innovative culture as it grows.

Throughout much of its first decade of existence, the search engine company presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world for the better first and making money second, an ethos exemplified through its famous «don't be evil» motto.

If any movie in 3 parts can be generalized as Good - Evil - Good, then it must be about the triumphant resurrection of Heebuh - Jeebus!

@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 Him.

I think my question to those of you who couple evil atheism with evolution, the big bang, and climate change is: how can we as scientists even start trying to inform you about the details of what you are arguing against if you automatically presume everything we say is a blasphemous lie?

Of course, Christ had warned us about people such as your self who would be enslaved by evil spirits.

You ask about the darkness and evil as to how that reconciles with good.

What is wrong with people, why are you trying to act all high and mighty as if these people that were polled were evil racist people because they spoke the truth about how they feel about a candidate.

Since we have continued to live in fear, live with all the changes that 9/11 caused in the way we go about our lives», and have pulled together and cooperated as a nation with the repercussions, we should be allowed to see the evil personified in the body of Osama bin Laden.

Nevertheless, while calling for a new politics that addresses personal moral failings as much as structural evils, Wallis talks endlessly about the latter and little about the former.

So what is it about you that makes you see yourself as a lowly worm, as a sinning evil creature in need of saving from something, as someone who needs a deity to make all the rules for their lives?

It is simply false, therefore, to claim that Plantinga must view all evils in the actual world as necessary for bringing about some greater good or avoiding some greater evil.

help my ocd makes me feel to blasphemy and also i'm sure i have about the spirit even as far as thinking evil of it i went too far thinking the being was evil he's not

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

One of the biggest fallouts (to oversimplify) then was that conservatives cared about personal morality and not involvement in social ethics / issues of evil, while liberals cared about social ethics / issues but were seen as lax about morality.

Although generally categorized as a novel for young readers, this Newbery award - winner and science fiction classic, grapple with adult - sized questions about the nature of God and the existence of evil.

Now you have something to explain as well on Judgment Day, when God asks you why did you speak evil about one of his servants?

to ascribe anything but evil intent to the Pope's motives make one suspect that it is not one decision that is the real problem: it is really about the fact that the nature of Catholicism and the role of the Pope have at their core a claim so audacious as to provoke outrage.

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.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

At this point, we got into some of the nitty gritty, as I asked him about things like the Problem of Evil and the preordained damnation of the non-elect.

Then there arises the problem known as theodicy, the question of how to justify the goodness of God when God either directly brings about evil or at least appears to permit evil to exist.

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

As we look at Genesis 2:16 - 17, we will be talking about Jesus Christ and Him crucified and how His death on the cross reveals something about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

He talks about the «goodness as we possess» (such as altruistic acts) and says that even if religion did no other harm, its carefully nurtured divisiveness is enough to make it «a significant force for evil in the world.»

What is it other than that throughout eternity an infinite stillness reigns wherein the conscience may talk with the individual about what he, as an individual, of what he has done of Good or of evil, and about the fact that during his life he did not wish to be an individual?

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

You don't KNOW my mind, you don't KNOW that people do just as many good things as bad things, and you don't KNOW that the vast majority of human beings are certainly wrong about human evil.

Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about human beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that humanity may come closer to this vision.

A collection of anecdotes about Turner's tumultuous relationship with popular culture through the years, Hear No Evil can best be described as a lighthearted tribute — to growing up, to the evangelical Christian subculture, to music.

Forgive me if I'm wrong about the origins but don't you think that a «monkey» is implied due to the original use of «hear no evil, speak no evil» even if she isn't drawn as one?

And as I pointed out in Steve Taylor's songs about «Baby Doe» and «Lifeboat» evil is declared good and good as evil.

Divine providence, of course, will always bring about God's good ends despite — and in a sense through — the evils of this world; but that is not the same thing as saying that evil has a necessary part to play in God's plans, and that God required evil to bring about the kingdom.

In a pair of particularly venomous columns National Journal editor and Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly not only derided antiwar protesters as those «unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of «Amerika» or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars,» but he also attacked pacifists as «liars,» «frauds» and «hypocrites,» whose views are «objectively pro-terrorist» and «evil.»

Gustav Aulen's contention, for example, that the New Testament teaching on Christ's death is teaching simply about his conquest of the devil — the «classic motif» falls into this category as does Karl Barth's understanding of evil conveyed in his term das Nichtige or Karl Rahner's «supernatural existential.»

There are many lessons to be learned from this story about Nathan and David, but let us not overlook the obvious one: if a person as good and decent as David is can succumb to evil and fall prey to self - deception, we can as well.

Hereâ $ ™ s some of the things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity; good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis wrote about.

So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

Life is about learning, not about categorizing every thing into «right» and «wrong» let alone «good and evil» or worse yet, «sin» as defined by most Christians.

If we know that totalitarian mass murder is evil, and that those who acquiesced in it deserve damnation, then we know something about that absolute evaluator as well.

Maybe the stories about bezelbub are true and you were so detestable during your conscience being, you came back as this shameless thing because you can't tell the difference between good and evil.

I wonder if we will ever get to the point as a nation where the vast majority of us DO NOT believe in Iron Age myths from the Middle East about sky - gods and evil ground spirits.

If it is the latter, then maybe you should think about painting a picture of a local church as you see it with its current evil influences, then explain why you think these influences are of the enemy.

He says conservatives like Dreher and Douthat are foolish to hail him as some kind of truth - teller to and about conservative elites, that the reality is he is an enabler of American personal irresponsibility and what's more, a force for political evil....

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He says, as does Luke, that the act of Judas was inspired by the devil; that is to say, it was a piece of sheer irrational evil, the motive for which was beyond their comprehension; and that is probably as much as they knew about it.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices