Sentences with phrase «eternal punishment at»

Critics of religion often claim that its adherents grovellingly obey moral laws, not for the sake of leading a good life or behaving altruistically, but for fear of eternal punishment at the hands of a vindictive God.

Not exact matches

If the only reason a person is good is because of the threat of some eternal punishment, he / she isn't really good at all.

They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.

God nbever punshed children for their parents crimes... death isnot always a punishment... cause the ultimate punishment is eternal life in hell... you are looking at wrong perspective there here and now in a temporary world

Fitting these three teachings of Jesus together is surprisingly easy when you look at the Greek for «eternal punishment».

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

Obviously the only rational explanation is that an all knowing and all powerful being, who is invisible and who requires that people worship it at the penalty of eternal punishment just puffed everything into existence.

And once the Emperor made his decision, the losing side was often condemned, not only to eternal punishment in hell, but sometimes even to death by stoning, beheading, hanging, or by what became the most popular method: burning at the stake.

At this point he went further than the passage in Isaiah 26:19, for he held out the hope that not only the faithful martyrs would be raised to everlasting blessedness, but the unfaithful apostates would be raised to receive their eternal punishment.

Did he tell her to pray to him for forgiveness and then he will let her off the hook of eternal punishment... No Instead in his tenderness and compassion he said, be whole, be true to yourself, be at - one with yourself, be strong, respect yourself don't let these men take advantage of you again...

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

Released in 2000, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment was a much more successful game (at least artistically) than its predecessor.

Although the translation remained a little dodgy and its graphics were well behind the curve for a game arriving at the end of the Playstation's life span, Person 2: Eternal Punishment was a complex and mysterious RPG, filled with interesting characters and a distinctly grown - up story.