Sentences with phrase «damnation seem»

Laird Cregar's Satan is lovable and makes eternal damnation seem not such a bad fate.

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It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

Eternal damnation doesn't seem that bad.

It seems as if we want to be rewarded, not just with our own salvation, but most especially with other people's damnation — just like the workers hired in the first hour.

David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire of hell and the light of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine love, which causes divine love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty of the Infinite, 399).

It would seem clear here that the power of God is all - encompassing whereas the love of God is not, because that love does not result in the effective saving of all of God's human creatures from eternal damnation.

How many people would go to church every week and worry about the issues that seem to drive Christians if the threat of eternal damnation is removed?

So even before you start to quibble about» by Christ» or «in Christ» or how some people being saved not by anything they do while others are not and how damnation by default slips around Augustines or Calvins problems you seem stuck with the trap of people being chosen from before creation to do something or other.

Yet our theologians no longer speak of Hell, and great masses of Christians seem to have lost all fear of damnation.

Greene goes to great lengths to avoid giving an ambiguous ending to this novel; it would almost seem that to Greene, salvation is tentative while damnation is sure.

Codemasters has their hands full with Damnation, but it's this type of visionary game that seems to throw it all together, stew it at 350, and then leave us wondering why someone hasn't done it before.

I hope you don't mind me saying, it seems like damnation by faint praise to just say that his preso makes you go «wow» because it would sure be a big deal if it was true, but then you immediately beg off any responsibility for evaluating the quality of his reasoning.