When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of
evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.
Not exact matches
Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the
power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect,
evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel
against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).
The
powers arrayed
against God were able to get the pinnacle of God's new creation to betray God and fight for them in their
evil cause.
«For we are not fighting
against flesh - and - blood enemies, but
against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world,
against mighty
powers in this dark world, and
against evil spirits in the heavenly places.»
against the
powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realms.
The new combat
against «the
evil empire» - the most complete human slavery from Von Hayek's point of view - strengthens inevitably the
power of attraction of Neo-liberalism as political current.
Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds
evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not
power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray
against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz
Paul reminds us that «our struggle is not
against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers,
against the authorities,
against the
powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realm» (Ephesians 6:12).
My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion
against those principalities and
powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize
evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.
The prevailing theology and spirituality contributed to blunting their conscience
against the immense
evils of Christian
powers against other peoples.
For if
evil, in Buber's conception, is rebellion
against God with the
power He has given man to do
evil, good is the turning toward God with this same
power.
If they forget the source of their
power, if they rebel
against God, if they no longer act as God's deputies, if instead of rewarding good conduct and punishing
evil conduct they do the reverse, they must be resisted.
It hopes to escape
evil not by fleeing the world, but by stepping away in distrust, securing the independent
power of the mind through the scientific method, and then turning
against the world with a vengeance and transforming it to suit the human will.
Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the
power of distinguishing between good and
evil, than he set himself to wage war
against the
evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.
Just as when armies crash
against each other, the victory is that of superior
power, so also the victory of love and grace
against the very real force of
evil, is a victory of a real superior force.
In what has been called the Classic Idea of the atonement, 12 the cross is seen as the last, decisive battle - ground between God and all the spiritual
powers of
evil, a conflict in which God, through his Son Jesus Christ, won a final and eternal victory
against all the
evil that threatens and plagues men.
Then and there I vowed to use whatever
power that I had for good and
against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work
against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).
For our struggle is not
against enemies of blood and flesh, but
against the rulers,
against the authorities,
against the cosmic
powers of this present darkness,
against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly places.
In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts
against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies
against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under
evil powers?!
God fights
against violence by recognizing it for the
evil that it is, and by taking the pain and suffering caused by
evil upon Himself, thus emptying it of its
power.
Also, God's use of
power and wrath being employed
against the wicked is a great comfort, and even can be a source of joy, to those people who are being dominated by
evil authorities, which perhaps is not as evident in the USA today but think of the joy for the people when an
evil dictatorship is squashed.
Yet, the Christian «fantasy» presents us with a vision of
evil as being eternally cast in chains, and a vision of God's daily protective
power against evil.
She understands the
power of
evil — that
evil conspires
against law and moral order, and that it can not be quenched by men and guns alone, or even women and guns.
In the period of purification and enlightenment, special emphasis is placed on equipping the converting person to wrestle
against the principalities and
powers of
evil.
They are not afraid to speak
evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in
power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation
against them before the Lord.
11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the
powers of
evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight
against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»
We didn't pretend we had special
powers in the fight
against good and
evil.
For all its
power, however, Voltaire's poem is a very feeble thing compared to the case for «rebellion»
against «the will of God» in human suffering placed in the mouth of Ivan Karamazov by that fervently Christian novelist Dostoevsky; for, while the
evils Ivan recounts to his brother Alexey are acts not of impersonal nature but of men, Dostoevsky's treatment of innocent suffering possesses a profundity of which Voltaire was never even remotely capable.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and
evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil
power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal
power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil
power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil
power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel
against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
Above all, the coercive
power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly
against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.
Meanwhile another movement was exerting its
power against the
evil.
Here Jesus» death is seen as a key part of God's victory over the
evil powers arrayed
against the divine aim.
But for a human to become intemperate on The Walking Dead is deadly, for intemperance «more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to «take heart»
against the wounding
power of
evil in the world.»
Against this theory is the view that
evil is a real and destructive
power.
Last week, while wearing a rosary, Espada Jr. accused prosecutors of employing «
evil spiritual
powers»
against him.
Good looking, undoubtably, as a mysterious hero with mysterious
powers fights
against an ancient
evil, but the delivery is a tad watery, and so this should have been first in a series was ultimately dropped.
In this promo, the mutants Shadowcat (Ellen Page), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), Blink (Fan Bingbing), Bishop (Omar Sy), Warpath (BooBoostewart) and Sunspot (Adan Canto), use their amazing
powers to fight
against evil mutant - killing robots called Sentinels.
The team would use their
powers to save the day
against their archenemy, the
evil and tyrannical Doctor Doom.
And with games like Metropolis Street Racer, Shenmue,
Power Stone, and Resident
Evil: Code Veronica all turning heads, Sega fans felt confident that — when it was released later in the year — Dreamcast would be able to hold its own
against the competition.
As father and daughter reconect, they find his newfound
powers could really help in the fight
against this
evil corporation, and a superhero is born.
Slowly Doctor Strange discovers that he has magic
powers of his own — and finds himself co-opted by The Ancient One into the protection of the entire world
against an
evil cabal led by The Ancient One's rebellious former pupil Kaecilius (poo name but great part, completely owned by Mads Mikkelsen, with lizard scales around his eyes and mascara running everywhere).
The Elizabethan era is a cloak for World War II moralizing, with the Spanish armada standing in for Hitler's quest for world
power, and Elizabeth I as a Churchill - style orator calling all good free men into action
against the
powers of
evil.
But the followers of their archenemy Magneto (Ian McKellen) feel no hesitation in branding the drug a diabolically
evil — and they spend the duration of the movie going to battle
against anyone, including the X-men, who try to stop them from wielding their mutation - derived super
powers.
Even younger and less experienced in the ways of battle are Thomas and Kate, accidentally drawn into this war between good and
evil, this struggle
against Demurral that brings them face - to - face with the
powers of darkness in an epic battle.
Against overwhelming odds I'm also expected to defeat an ancient
evil - one with the
power of a god.But you know what?Some loot is worth risking it all.This edition has been fully revised.
I've heard the «what if Amazon turns
evil» argument a lot of times, but my reading of the situation is that the fear of Amazon some day abusing its
power to force a bad deal on authors has to be weighed
against the simple fact that publishers are currently forcing authors to accept bad deals.
From ancient Christian sites in Spain, Italy and Israel to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must track down the stones through the myths of the early church in a race
against time before a new Pentecost is summoned, this time
powered by the fire of
evil.
The plot involves a
power - hungry Indonesian general who wants to turn Indonesia into an Islamic superpower — the new
Evil Empire (Islam)
against the Christian USA.
Cadsby authored The
Power of Index Funds, in which he railed
against the
evils of active management.
It's up to you to use the
power of creation in battle
against the reigning Dragonlord and his
evil minions to restore peace to the shattered realm.