Sentences with phrase «as much evil»

An all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

You have just decided to choose the good, but he is just as much evil.

We spend most of our time bickering among ourselves and perpetrate as much evil as good on the world.

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.

Not exact matches

Let's spread it around as much as possible so we can take that evil witch down!»

While the company amassed an army of fanboy followers over much of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out of the woodwork.

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.

Or do you want to make an example of me, as the «evil Christian» with Sabio (much more Jesus - like) hovering over to make sure you hit the right note of bitterness?

The celebration of Satan is much worse than abortion, as it is the greater evil.

So my question to you even before it gets to that point is the same as I have given to others, first why do you hate God so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your evil and hateful ways?

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

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.

And cometh that match, Jesus shall laugh in glee as the faithful, filled with His love, gouge the eyes from the atheists and kicketh them where men should not be kicked, and smash them over the head with conveniently available folding chairs, just like in Professional Wrestling, and others of the saved shall hoot and holler and watch NASCAR on giant Jesus flatscreens and the atheists do much wailing and gnashing of teeth and stubbing of toes and get nasty hangnails for their evil sins.

The innocent little mouse was so much like converted Christians: Satan wants to destroy them also as did the evil guard who wanted to destroy the mouse.

A monistic, panentheistic position can not avoid this conclusion.29 In a physical, biological, historico - cultural evolutionary process as complex as the universe, much that is evil from various perspectives will occur, and if one sees this process as God's self - expression, then God is involved in evil.

so the Swiss Guard, protecting this evil, are they as much to blame, misled they must be, but of course the vatican says if you will protect us will put all our money into your banks, sounds fair doesn't it.

Because there is so much in Western civilization that is good, 1 and that can be and ought to be made better, it would be fatal to withdraw in isolation from it or condemn it as wholly evil.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

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.

Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

Although Jesus had some decent ideals (regardless of what kind of being you think he was), history shows us that Christianity, the religion, for as much as it has aided people, has been political, corrupt (well just human to be kinder) right from the git - go, and the cause of enormous evil and suffering throughout its history.

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

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.

It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

As a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at alAs a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at alas I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at all.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

Much more entertaining, and the villains are nowhere near as evil as the chief character in the Babble.

The insistence that communism and fascism be weighed on different moral scales continues, says Martin Malia in his introduction to the American edition of The Black Book, because «no matter what the hard facts are, degrees of totalitarian evil will be measured as much in terms of present politics as in terms of past realities.»

To attribute something to «evil» is just as much a cop out as attributing it to «Satan» and far too easy.

As much as we despise the evil in the world and in our own lives, think of the horror of being in a fallen state, but without siAs much as we despise the evil in the world and in our own lives, think of the horror of being in a fallen state, but without sias we despise the evil in the world and in our own lives, think of the horror of being in a fallen state, but without sin.

Out of the anxiety of creatures capable of such abysmal self - knowledge as we can and often do acquire, much evil and wickedness emerges.

It would not be too much to say that God can use sin, Satan, and evil as tools of redemption, even — dare I say it?

If you, as I, do not accept any of these ways of rejecting much of Scripture, then you can reasonably conclude that violence and even killing itself is not sinful when used to prevent evil acts and punish evil natures.

Of course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statement.

As an atheist, I realize that evil (the generic kind, not the kind that requires a fallen horned angel), in the form of hateful snarkiness (among countless others), is very much alive and well.

Buber's early essays on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for personal wholeness, for the realization of truth in life, and for the joining of spirit and of basic life energies which consistently appears in all of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element of his thought, his attitude toward evil.

As Canon Andrew White (aka the vicar of Baghdad) affirms in his interview with us, real evil is very much alive in the world today.

It is certainly not the only way, and should not by any means be our first response to all situations; however I can not agree with Wink's conclusion, as summarized by Jeremy, that «history has proven time and time again that violence will never put an end to violence,» or that violence itself is always an evil action (Wink concludes the latter much more firmly than Jeremy.

An everything deity would value evil every bit as much as it would value good.

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.

We are always telling moderate Muslims to speak out against Islamic extremists, to tell the world that they are as much against the evil tactics of the extremists as everyone else is.

I think Iran needs to take a good look at itself as a nation and realize that the world is watching — and Iran is part of a larger world, despite it's posturing — it is subject to just as much temptation to war and Evil that it claims to be against.

If men are brought up, as today's boys are, believing that girls always want the same thing they do from sexual encounters, and that it's evil and sexist to assume otherwise, then they are that much more likely to be impatient and uncomprehending of a woman's «no.»

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

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

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.