Not exact matches
If on the social group as a whole Yahweh's wrath was falling, the punishment was an inevitable
consequence of the way individuals were thinking — «Hear, O earth: behold, I will
bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts».
If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser
evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will
bring with it very deleterious
consequences.
312 In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence can
bring a good from the
consequences of an
evil, even a moral
evil, caused by his creatures: «It was not you,» said Joseph to his brothers, «who sent me here, but God....