Sentences with phrase «by the evil powers»

Again, in Romans 8:9 - 22, Paul seems to echo the Stoic views of the aging of the world, as well as the Jewish apocalyptic conception of its subjugation by evil powers responsible for human sin and the disruption of nature.

The idea of this exchange is proposed by the evil powers.

Link sallies after him, intent on getting his stuff back, but learns Skull Kid is being warped by the evil power of Majora's mask.

Not exact matches

Vatican City (AFP)- Pope Francis on Monday blasted the «money stained with blood» and «evil power» wielded by Italian organised crime as he met the heads of the country's anti-mafia squad.

But Malone isn't one of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.

We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

«This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil.

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

American citizens were never collectively exploited by evil local governments or suffered directly from foreign powers» oppressions.

Each example of evil, from the Imperial leadership to the Sith Lords and acolytes, is exemplified by the pursuit of power born out of self - ambition.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

And Christian theology has always seen this terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

To break categorically with the present evil aeon is to cut the ground from under one's feet, to open oneself physically to death by breaking with the power structure of an evil society, and to open oneself spiritually to death by renouncing self - seeking as a motivation and giving oneself radically to the needs of one's neighbour, as one's real freedom and love.

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

If the world is not really the land of perfection, then by his double - mindedness he has surrendered himself to the power of mediocrity or pledged himself to the evil.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

Is it a myth of the divine Redeemer, who by his insight and fidelity thwarts the cosmic powers of evil?

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

Those who hold this view point out that after the Pharisees claim that Jesus is performing miracles by the power of Satan (Matt 12:24), Jesus calls them an «evil generation» which deserves condemnation for rejecting the Messiah (Matt 12:39 - 42).

Scriptures even tell of Christ rejecting a chance to have earthly power when tempted by the forces of evil.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and spower «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and sPower; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

Of course, one can extend the free - will defense to the subhuman realm, without positing any inherent power of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohorts.

A simple, three - sentence report on what Elhanan finds when he returns to his hometown after the occupation seems to make a case for the ultimate victory of the power of evil: «The synagogue: transformed into a stable by the Germans.

It is a dangerous thing to deny the presence of evil spirits in the world, but it is equally dangerous to think that man, by the performance of some ritual, has some power over them.

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

The crucial religious experiences of man do not take place in a sphere in which creative energy operates without contradiction, but in a sphere in which evil and good, despair and hope, the power of destruction and the power of rebirth, dwell side by side.

But you shall go down to your High Priest and shall pray him on our behalf to send me a hundred men skilled in your religion who before these idolators may be able to reprove what they do and may say to them that they know and can do such things but will not, because they are done by diabolical art and through evil spirits, and may so restrain them that they may not have power to do such things in their presence.

The quote is immediately followed by this: «Like all gifts from God, the power and freedom of sexuality can be channeled toward good or evil.

Whether he did it for the money, or to force Jesus into a situation where he could display his divine power and so bring in the kingdom by force, or out of personal disappointment at the apparent failure of the mission, or because he was evil from the beginning (but then why did Jesus call him in the first place?)

It hopes to escape evil not by fleeing the world, but by stepping away in distrust, securing the independent power of the mind through the scientific method, and then turning against the world with a vengeance and transforming it to suit the human will.

In affirming God, he first rejected the blandishments and lies of the wilderness, just as in the baptismal liturgy the candidate says yes to God by first saying no to Satan, the evil powers of this world, and all sinful desires.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Evil crept up on a sympathetic «baddie» — Elphaba, powerful but timid, is bullied by the «good» witch Glinda into unleashing her powers.

Faith prayer has been abused by the very material minded power persons whose past lives have made the Family of God feared and killed millions in the name of God and Poor God had nothing to do with it - only evil men.

Evil is test of human choice, HE has power over hindu Lucifer ism, filthy secular ism of every thing, but HE honors HIS promise to human of their authority, HE will like human to defeat hinduism denial of truth absolute by himself.

The answer has to be No, if certain conditions all came together again: (1) an economic and political situation as desperate as it was in Hitler's Germany; (2) the rise of a new evil genius with Hitler's demagogic powers; (3) virulent and all - pervading anti-Semitism; (4) repeated use of the «Big Lie» with mastery; and (5) an entire nation's being stricken by megalomania and arrogance, by the curse of pseudoscience, and by the deadly combination of sentimentality and cruelty.

The nonpower signified by radical evil is discovered in the very place whence our power proceeds.

The Reformation understood (1) that life must be completed by a power that is not our own, (2) that human pride insinuates itself on every level of sainthood, and (3) that freedom can bring either good or evil or both.

«This evil can not be concealed by the power of the Elves.

This reflects the age - old Semitic idea of blessings and curses as actually conveying the good or evil by an almost physical power (cf. Is 55:11).

Third, we can liken the marvelous works to which Jesus called the Twelve to the heroic, superhuman efforts made by individual Christians to combat the powers of death, disease, and evil.

Racism is an obsession as pernicious and devilish as any possession by evil spirits of first - century people; we can do everything within our powers to oppose racism.

The writer reminds readers that full enjoyment of God's blessing is limited by the continuing power of evil in the world.

Not only are the powers of good or evil controlled by people, there is, further, a sense of balance between such powers, an equilibrium.

God fights against violence by recognizing it for the evil that it is, and by taking the pain and suffering caused by evil upon Himself, thus emptying it of its power.

Was that what Pope Francis felt on Pentecost Sunday» a source of evil so malicious and strong that it could only be overcome by the greater power of Jesus Christ?