Sentences with phrase «do evil rather»

The problem is that many people choose to do evil rather than good.

If a person bearing the name of magistrate is doing evil rather than good, where does that leave the matter of submission?

Not exact matches

There is immense scope for doing both good and evil on the internet, and therefore, rejecting the security concerns of online privacy as sensationalism and paranoia is simply unjust and rather naïve.

That didn't turn out and he undoubtedly wants to pursue some sort of lust as in the words of Jesus Christ, «men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.»

Vic: «God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, rather, as God is Omniscient, He knew beforehand what man will do at «Free Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the evil doing of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross † into Salvation for humankind.»

Did not Jesus urge us to turn the other cheek rather than picket, to refuse to «resist one who is evil» rather than boycott unjust companies?

Well, I'll take that as a healthy willingness to tell God to take a flying leap rather that do something under his will that you think might be evil.

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.

It's a way to justify what you don't yet understand, rather than acknowledging that it's just understandable at the moment, and it's acceptance amongst those who think like they do, it's the creation of a definable «evil» to fight against (satan, atheists, other religions, basically everyone except their small group of like minders... even other denominations that are nearly identical quibble).

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

I have come to believe that evil does not appear as evil but rather the exact opposite in most cases.

If people want to do something evil, they should just do it, rather than claiming Jesus told them to, or by trying to make it seem not so bad because they are doing it for Jesus.

If you want to discuss your nonbelief further, or if you want me to respond to your reasons for nonbelief, I'll happily do so, but I'd rather not do so here, just incase we sidetrack the debate about evil (which WAS about the Book of Job!)

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.

First, Reformed protestantism — which possesses the theology of «Total Depravity» — DOES N'T say that human beings are as evil as they could be, but rather just that they are evil in all their attributes, so that no aspect of the human condition is left untouched.

Kauffman pointed out that «Jesus talks about loving our enemies and praying for our enemies and doing good to those who do evil to us»; more than this, on the cross «Jesus allowed himself to die, and absorbed in his own being the violence around him, rather than countering that violence.»

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

Does Mr. Anderson believe it is pure accident that those evils are in our past rather than in our present?

Rom 3:8 And not [rather], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?

I see the universe as a perfect and balanced place created by god in his own special way, he is all powerful and evil does not exit rather the ability to have freedom of will.

It is a view that takes authority to be a positive good rather than a necessary evil alone and in so doing preserves a truth about human nature and society that stands in danger of loss.

When Adam and Eve take the fruit, they do not make a decision between good and evil but rather imagine possibilities of action and then act almost without knowing it, sunk in «a strange, dreamlike kind of contemplation.»

The first stage of evil does not yet contain a «radical evil» since the misdeeds which are committed in it are slid into rather than chosen as such.

They would rather poke fun, put down, and bring up every evil deed somebody has done «in the name» of Christ, in order to shatter your faith and make you feel worthless.

This occurs when one does the law and his motive springs from his knowledge of good and evil rather than his union with God.

He says that they did not accept Him because their deeds were evil and they loved darkness rather than light (John 3:18 - 21).

First, my fault finding with the quote was not that good people can do evil because of religion, but rather in the exclusivity of the statement,» But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.»

(Although doing a quick google search with the locators «M. Scott Peck empirical evidence evil church prison», I came across a rather thought provoking blogpost from Sept. of 2007 at the URL below.)

If, on the plane of moral evil rather than physical or «natural» evil, one replies that with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from sinning and going to hell?»

Rather, they struggle along adopting the conventional morality of their day, doing what they can, and hoping for the best, but not motivated by any great obsession for either good or evil causes.

A person doesn't «have an abusive incident»; rather, a person commits a crime of abuse: a crime that many, including this conservative Catholic, would position just one or two steps below murder on the hierarchy of evil.

Given the existence of evil in the world, its pervasive and troubling character, there is rather decisive evidence that God does not exist.

Without searching for reasons, without attempting to find the cause of evil and illness and pain in the world, we rather ask, What can we do?

As Jessica explains, «To think God isn't designing my pain but rather doing everything possible to maximise good and minimise evil within the constraints of the world he created — that's exciting!»

10 Voltaire did not present his views on God in a straightforward manner but seems to have come to the conclusion, particularly regarding the effects of the Lisbon earthquake, that he would rather worship a limited God than an evil one.

But that which is unequivocally evil for Whitehead does not simply refer to destructive discord; rather it refers to the dominance of destructive discord.

The Calvinistic doctrine of Total Depravity does not teach that each of us goes astray or turns away, but rather that we are born that way, that before we can even make a choice for good or evil, we are predisposed to only choose the evil.

It would be interesting to compare Hartshorne's comments here with those of Maritain in his little book on evil, and with the Thomistic doctrine that homo prima causa mali.17 It is rather to be feared that Hartshorne does not take account of the full complexity of the view he parodies.

And when the gospel does its work, these powers are not utterly destroyed or abolished; rather they are dethroned, pushed back into place, so their evil is held in check by the kingdom or reign of God (STE 173.

Hasker, however, does not use his statement to stop the conversation but only to insist that, rather than simply listing evils that his God should have prevented, we must provide «a strongly supported criterion by which to discern the situations in which intervention would be mandatory.»

He joins faith with practice, thinking with doing, thus answering the problem of evil with deeds rather than reasons — with his whole personhood, not with his mind alone.

Focused inward on containing man's capacity for evil through a pattern of small habits, it runs the risk of atrophying into dry ritual rather than enriching civilized life to the fullest — but that is the worst it does.

I've actually never met a mom who didn't think that pumping was a necessary evil rather than an enjoyable activity.

Being in that position is all about compromise and about using the lesser of two evils rather than actually being able to do what you want.

Klein and Epley call this finding «asymmetric self - righteousness,» reflecting the asym - metry that people do not believe they are more moral than others but rather less evil than them.

I'm still working out what to do with the domain name adorevintage.com... unfortunately it's a rather sticky situation involving a very evil man.

Available on formats new and old, The Evil Within did — rather unsurprisingly — perform the best out of the bunch.

Certainly it does make Hitler a human rather than a simplistic emblem for evil itself; we see him as a complicated multi-layered man capable of moments of charm and gentleness as well as rage and hate.

In a rather gutsy move, Akhtar doesn't take the easy way out in bowing to the character's popularity and soften Don into a more palatable «antihero»; Don remains gleefully, unrepentantly evil (and retains his fondness for Tom and Jerry cartoons), making for a rather refreshing villain's perspective - driven actioner, and a fiercely energized Khan clearly relishes this latest opportunity to break away from his trademark roguish romantic hero persona.

But Disney's attempts to flesh out misunderstood characters like Maleficent and the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsmen didn't yield perfect results, so it makes perfect sense for Disney to examine a rather blah character and give her some much - needed personality for 21st - century ladies.