Sentences with phrase «act upon the evil»

Not exact matches

' «Contra the revisionists among moral theologians, we do not have neutral «acts» that are then to be judged good or evil depending upon the intention involved (or, according to others, depending upon the consequences involved).

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.

Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».

The prophetic act is divinely motivated, if not impelled (12: 1) The prophet speaks not his own but the given word — «thus says the Lord...» (12:7) The prophetic condemnation is based not alone on the violation of a man - to - man relationship, but, since all life is judged by the righteousness of God, upon the violation of the divine - human relationship — «Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight?»

The US Is not all «Christian» we have MANY religions here and so this isn't religious on the American side, i «ts about dismantling a theocratical government that was intent upon doing evil, and then acted upon it.

That wasn't always the case though, as New York's blue sky law was initially weaker than that of many other states, until the New York Supreme Court determined in People v Federated Radio Corporation (1926) that the act's purpose was to «defeat all kinds of fraud in connection with the sale of securities and commodities and to defeat all unsubstantial and visionary schemes in relation thereto whereby the public is fraudulently exploited,» even if the fraud can't be proven to have «originated in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others.»

Chigurh is a man who is irredeemably evil, but who acts upon his own set of morals and principles.

Ergo, the Bureau must act upon its mandate to root out evil doers.