Sentences with phrase «divine punishment»

Without free will and morality, any sort of divine punishment and reward system loses any justification.

Do you know how it feels to be threatened with divine punishment for questioning someone in spiritual authority?

This once again shows that any punishment that results from sin is the natural consequence of sin itself, and is not divine punishment at all.

Death, then, is not an arbitrary divine punishment but a natural consequence of sin.

When we know that somebody believes in the possibility of divine punishment, we seem to assume they are less likely to do something unethical.

Too often the catholic church has shushed up victims by paying off the parents or threatening divine punishments on them.

The standards in place say that's part of the spiritual leader's job, to remind them of the need to submit to divine authority, or face divine punishment (divine law).

Until then, what do you think this view of divine punishment does for how you think about God, and how you interact with other people?

With much back - sliding, which was disobedience to Jahweh and which merited divine punishment, there was nevertheless a slow development of purer and more exalted notions of Jahweh and his character and activity in the world.

The early philosophers already knew that it originated from the resin of trees; Greek mythology told the story of Phaethon's three sisters who were turned into trees as divine punishment, and wept tears of amber.

God forbid white church - goers ever set foot inside a poor church and see the the poverty they so casually dismiss as a result of divine punishment for laziness.

Among his arguments, he takes special care to target those Christians who relished his fate as some kind of divine punishment for atheism.

Just think of their horror of finding out that people just stop when they die, nothing more, and all the divine punishment they so dearly love just does not happen.

The church was forced to recant their position later, but what you should really be asking yourself is: should you vote for someone who believes God created your people, or who believes your race was a divine punishment, but refuses to support gay rights.

All too often, stricken people themselves attribute their suffering to divine punishment.

It is quite common in some Christian circles to say that when a city is flattened by a hurricane, or when an earthquake strikes, or when a tsunami kills thousands, that this is «divine punishment» upon that area and those people.

They are the result of divine punishment for the blatant hubris of humankind.

They approve of the divine punishment meted out to Ananias and Sapphira when they are rebuked by Peter for their fraudulent action (Acts 5:1 - 11).

But we can not overlook the belief in divine judgment — and with it divine punishment — without distorting the Christian faith.

For Augustine, there was literally no death prior to this fall, but as a divine punishment, nature itself now conspires against the fallen, morally enslaved children of the fallen first parents.

The laws of nature are valid but they» are not deterministic, they allow for freedom, and so for conflicts and frustrations that are not specifically providential (divine punishments, educational devices, or...) but are simply examples of creatures partly making themselves and one another, under the general guidance which insures that symbiosis and mutual helpfulness are as real as self - assertion and predation.

Of one thing we can be sure: future catastrophes will not occur because they have been sent as a divine punishment.

The governor of Tokyo apologized on Tuesday for saying the earthquake and resulting tsunami that left thousands dead were divine punishment for Japanese egoism, a leading Japanese news service reported.

On Monday, Ishihara had told reporters, «I think (the disaster) is tembatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims,» according to Kyodo News, which translated Ishihara's remarks from Japanese.

I really do think this is divine punishment.»

The public response to AIDS proves the tenacity of the notion that illness is divine punishment for wrongdoing.

Nor is there in the supernatural voice from the whirlwind any affirmation that suffering is divine punishment or means of teaching us this or that.

I like what Abraham J. Heschel says in his wonderful book: THE PROPHETS: «How does one reconcile the tenderness of divine love with the vehemence of divine punishment» Clearly it is not a love that is exclusive and that ingnores the wickedness of the beloved, forgiving carelessly every fault.

Shortly after the Japanese quake and tsunami, the governor of Tokyo said publicly that the disaster was divine punishment for Japanese egoism, though he apologized for the remarks a day later.

Paul assumes that venereal disease is the divine punishment for homosexual behavior; we know it as a risk involved in promiscuity of every stripe, but would hesitate to label it a divine punishment, since not everyone who is promiscuous contracts it.

The fear argument is just silly, for it is just as valid to say that people reject spiritualism and the afterlife for fear of divine punishment.

If AIDS is divine punishment for homosexual practice, why don't gay women get it?

(Someone has quipped that if AIDS is divine punishment, then surely the people who bring us economic oppression, environmental pollution and devastating wars should at least get herpes.)

Do we not, rather, have an infinite, agonizing tension of willed evil and divine punishment that triumphs over evil, but does not eliminate it?

For others, however, the suffering visited on the Jews was seen as a divine punishment for having strayed from the faith of their fathers.

Radner offers a figural scriptural argument: though Israel was divided because of human sin and divine punishment, «No Jew... is ever asked by God to «choose» between Israel and Judah.»

Whereas non-Hispanic families who use religious coping strategies tend to use these techniques more negatively, viewing their circumstances as divine punishment, and then often engaging in denial and substance abuse to avoid dealing with their circumstances.

The early philosophers already knew that it originated from the resin of trees; Greek mythology told the story of Phaethon's three sisters who were turned into trees as divine punishment, and wept tears -LSB-...]

He suspects the results are connected to the importance many religions place on an external authority and threats of divine punishment.

Students were immediately captivated as they began reading texts that described the stinking pustules that erupted on the necks of knights and nuns, about the healers who applied leaches to the bodies of the diseased, and about the flagellants who attributed the plague to divine punishment and publically flayed themselves.

But Atlas got his job as result, not of artistic commitment but of divine punishment.