Sentences with phrase «as evil works»

As the evil wrought by abortion and its logical corollary of euthanasia becomes ever more apparent, there are some hopeful signs of ethical resurgence.

Not exact matches

In my head, I saw the bank as an evil entity, having no mercy for a hard - working, widowed mom who had come upon hard times.

Sony kicked off its virtual reality news by showing a demo of a new installment of the popular Resident Evil action - horror video game franchise that will work on both Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console as well as the new virtual reality headset.

We're often conditioned to view work as one of life's necessary evils.

Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a force for evil, but Feinberg's article — which drew potential connections between Trump and the work of a $ 60,000 - a-pop hair - extension company called Ivari International — still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

As very clearly stated in the Bible (Job, for example), SATAN can only work his evil with the PERMISSION OF and SUPERVISION of GOD.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

The editors viewed their job as a committed ministry and believed that they were working toward building a positive society by calling attention to social evils and praising worthwhile social developments.

«Because the «Evil One» wants us to fail, there is a temptation to claim this territory as our own and guard it — not as a gift from God but as the work of our own hands».

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.

Even if someone was as good as Mother Theresa or Gandhi, they could not earn their eternal life by their good works any more than could Hitler or Pol Pot by their evil works.

It is a redemption not from the evil, but of the evil, as the power which God created for his service and for the performance of his work.

I am a Christian and part of my work outside of the church is to explore the church's history focusing as much on its acts of evil as on its acts of good.

By working to get these recognised as social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal, which is that homosexual behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.

For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil.

The sin confessed was not so much personal unworthiness as national misdeeds, and the misdeeds were not alone the evil work of the living but of the ancestral generations whose iniquities were still involving their offspring in penalty.

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.

I honestly have never met a single Christian who believes themselves to be «good» and not sinful / evil, such as yourself, in my years working with Churches and even in theological circles.

These (most) People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their shoe.

So the earth is 6000 years old, condoms are evil, and you should let someone drown on sundays as not to do work as well huh.

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.

Sha'ul tells them in regard to their being SetApart from evil that they were to receive and expect this, because YAHWEH was working it in them, this work many believers pass right by as obscure, «Now YAHWEH our ABBA, and our Master YAHSHUA, may they direct our way to you and may our Master increase and overflow your love, one to another, to all people also, even as we love you.

As we come to know, honour, and trust YAHSHUA, we will learn and experience that in the New Covenant, separation from evil, which the Spirit works in us, is our New Covenant right!

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.

The method of averting one's attention from evil, and living simply in the light of good is splendid as long as it will work.

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.

That «something else» is that the event of Jesus Christ is to be taken in faith as peculiarly and distinctively a disclosure of God, the dependable, worshipful, unsurpassable reality who is creatively at work in everything that takes place, even in that which is evil.

In this critique, the church fathers have been regarded as men of a sexist time whose work presumed the inferiority of women (as well as woman's responsibility for the introduction of evil into the world).

Just as the Church never failed in its works of charity, so it was never completely blind to the social evils and economic injustice of the day.

In separate essays, Charles Hartshorne77 and Lewis Ford78 point out the serious misunderstandings of Whitehead at work in this critique, and Ford and others explain the Whiteheadian solution to the problem of evil as follows: 79 God does not wholly determine the course of the temporal process.

Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference between his work and Tolkien's: «I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart, not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.

In the passage immediately following his six «sentence discussion of the Fifth Way, Aquinas explains the connection: «As Augustine says, since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works unless His omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of eviAs Augustine says, since God is the highest good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works unless His omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evias to bring good even out of evil.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

Briefly, I would say that man was created as a good being, a soul with God's breath of life inside, BUT due to sinful flesh our deeds have a natural tendency to turn out evil works.

We can appreciate the Christian absolutist who seeks to stand wholly against involvement in the evil of society; yet as he does so he must realize that those who are working for relative gains within the social order are doing a necessary work in the service of God.

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.

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.

His second major work, God, Freedom and Evil, proved even more consequential, as it dealt with the oft - heard objection that a good God is incompatible with a world filled with eEvil, proved even more consequential, as it dealt with the oft - heard objection that a good God is incompatible with a world filled with evilevil.

Trying to use that as a smokescreen to hide the awful evils of your religion behind won't work all the time.

What difference does it make that advocates of just war work within the presumptions of a realist foreign policy — as in the case of United States foreign policy — which assumes that one must do evil that good may come?

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.

It is a tragic feature of the contemporary West that the Jews have so often been invoked as a convenient stand - in for the evils wrought by elites afraid of community — a typical response of those who would attempt to sacralize an ethnic community in order to form a new chosen people, as described by David P. Goldman.

This is not to say that there is anything evil about working, as most persons must, to make a living for themselves and their families.

Thus we are enabled to become the personal instruments for his loving concern as it is worked out in the creation, despite the evil and wickedness, the sin and injustice, the pain and anguish, that are obvious to an honest observer.

Many people unfortunately see work as a necessary evil that funds the life they really live for.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

This is a good thing, but in the critique of Ralph Winter that David Hesselgrave gave, he referred to Ralph Winter's reliance on Gregory Boyd's view of «microbial evil» and the necessity of kingdom work overcoming the forces of darkness as represented by disease and poverty in war.