Trouble is, he's a pig — literally, due to what he thinks is
a divine curse.
The narrator, whom biblical scholarship generally identifies as the Yahwist, is concerned to show that through sin both the lower and higher creation carry
a divine curse.
The site promotes «the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant
divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.»
Not exact matches
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet
cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether
divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
The
divine powers of Hinduism are brought under the powerful and inauspicious
curse of the goddess of the Paraiyars.
It is not good enough merely to refrain from killing your enemy; you must love him too: «Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who
curse you, pray for those who treat you badly» (Lk 6, 27 - 28) Jesus» words seem a
divine madness and entirely contrary to human nature.
Mormons believe that the
curse on blacks or any other shades other than white, is a teaching of
divine origin.
Yet we also truncate the gospel if we limit or circumvent the expectation that
divine deliverance will extend «far as the
curse is found.»
«Through the use of live instruments, huge percussion, choir, hybrid elements, and dreamy vocals, [listeners can] experience the dark nature and the never - ending cycle of the
curse trapped inside the
divine - given Triforce.»