Not exact matches
That is, God's inclusive vision and experience
does enable him to relate
evil events to others in such a way that some positive value results.
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone
enables him freely to will and to
do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is
evil.
«Surely it can not be unreasonable,» he says, «that before God delivers us from a state of sin and liability to everlasting woe, he should give us some considerable sense of the
evil from which he delivers us, in order that we may know and feel the importance of salvation, and be
enabled to appreciate the value of what God is pleased to
do for us.
I actually believe edgier fiction
enables more challenging perspectives on the gospel particularly when presenting
evil which can be harder to
do in say a romance novel and hence one of the reasons I enjoy reading a lot of it.
Those who remain silent or who
do nothing
enable those who
do evil to succeed.