Sentences with phrase «did much evil»

He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.

2Ti 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

And even all the old testament god saving us from the evil cannans and wickedness all death in the old is justified god says he will rip the Jews open dash there children to pieces because they profaned his name everywhere and did much evil and abominations that God does hate.

The word of Elisha to Hazael is ambiguous: «He shall certainly die...» «You shall do much evil to the children of Israel...» «You are to be king over Syria.»

Not exact matches

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

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.

And it's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those things are incredibly messy and no one is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.

Despite all their boasting about being good fiscal managers and the evils of accumulating debt, the Conservative government doesn't seem to really care that much about reducing debt.

Take away their ability to tax and inflate and so much of their power to do evil things to good people is gone.

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?

It is to be regretted, therefore, not only that much evil was done to aboriginal people, but that their very spirituality was violated by the introduction of Christianity in Australia.

«Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.»

And I do think there is an element of hope in the crusade's demonstration that moral appeal and censure can affect a behavior so widespread, although goodness knows there are evils much more in need of our moral attention.

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.

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.

But that seems to rely too much on human ability to overcome Evil and with our track record that doesn't seem like a good possibility.

I consider that men DID create and write the bible, but both Christ and satan are metaphors... christ is the metaphor for the potential good in a person, satan the metaphor for the potential of bad or evil... given that this is MY definition, and makes much more sense that most other beleifs, then the bible WAS written by satan, or rather it was inspired by the bad / evil side of the minds of the writers.

God, therefore, did not force those who crucified Christ to make the decisions they made — much less did he will their evil deeds.

I have seen so much evil done to people in the Name of Jesus from the institutions / parachurch orgs / evangelism that when someone tells me they are a pastor my first reaction is not what they might expect.

These «failed attempts to act on behalf of God» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232) were done with evil in our hearts and the name of God on our lips, and thus reveal to us not so much of what is in the heart of God, but what is in the heart of men.

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.

I suggest you read you Bible, while there are evil people doing evil things, often at the behest of God, but more importantly, if you believe the Bible much of the evil comes from God himself.

«God loves you, no matter who you are or what you've done» sounds much better than «you're gonna burn in a lake of fire if you don't change your evil ways!»

But of course this in no way answers the questioner who asks, «Why doesn't God stop evil and cruel men from causing so much suffering?»

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.

It gets much worse when you consider the problem of evil: If God really exists, and he is really all powerful, and really morally perfect, then why do so many horrible, senseless things happen?

However, they may be driven sometimes to emphasize the lesser evil so much that their decision may become remote from the Christian ethic, even though they don't intend that result.»

Only Jesus can pray to Jesus that Jesus doesn't cast us into the Hell that Jesus created because Jesus loves us and wants us to live for eternity in His Heaven unless we do not believe in and honor Him, whereupon He will vomit us up and into the everlasting agony of Hell which He prays we do not go to because He loves us so much even though we are born evil and vile in His eyes and require being born again so that He does not condemn us to a fiery eternity and, rather, can love us in Heaven for ever and ever, Amen.

Frogist Yup, it doesn't get much ruder than to tell complete strangers that they are evil and deserve to be tortured mercilessly.

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.

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.

When I go to Church, I don't go to some building that someone built, listen to someone speak at me about the evils of the world, give up money for some out of sight missionary work, and then get berated for not doing things according to some interpreted version of a much disputed holy book.

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.

«Having faith in Christ does not equate with being good»... I think my position is that Christians are particularly hung up on «good» and «evil»... in ways that don't make much sense often times.

There are too many ways to do evil, most of which are much more efficient than using a gun.

We have a much greater weapon against evil spirits than those who think their rituals do anything — and that weapon is prayer.

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

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.

Although Buber's distinction between the two stages of evil did not reach its mature form until 1951, a much greater emphasis on the reality of evil is evident in his works since 1940 than in his earlier writings.

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.

Also, if there is no wrong, why do Atheists say «There is so much evil in the world»?

The question for relational theology is not so much why does God allow evil and suffering to occur but where is God luring us in response to evil experiences once they occur.

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.»

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

Much of Churchianity's spiritual resources are invested expressly to find inventive ways to pretend that evil doesn't need to be dealt with.

So if I should take responsibility for events I did not partake in, it's only logical to make atheists realize just how much they deny about the evil caused by atheists.

How do atheists account for so much evil vs. so much good?