Sentences with phrase «evil exists in the world»

Mercy is not the Enlightenment's narrow notion of a cancellation of deserved punishment but is rather a will to «[promote] and [draw] good from all the forms of evil existing in the world and in man.»

Without question, evil exists in the world — this is obvious and without dispute.

What guilt from your past are you trying to assuage with your denial of the reality that, in fact, good and evil exist in this world?

If we believe the He set up our choices in advance then we throw away free will and are left wondering why evil exists in the world.

This lesson was created as an active revision lesson and examines the issue of natural and moral evil alongside 4 explanations as t why evil exists in the world.

Not exact matches

There does exist good and evil in the world.

Evil will always exist in the world.

You can't hide your head in the sand and pretend there is no evil in the world... the evil exists whether you see it or not.

The classical response to nonmoral evil we have been discussing begins by affirming «C» omnipotence in relation to humans and then argues that there do exist good reasons to believe that such a moral world would include instances of genuine nonmoral evil and plausible reasons for assuming that such a world would have the types and amount of genuine nonmoral evil we presently experience.

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

We live in a world where evil exists in plenty, and often prospers.

Saying sin exists because there is evil in the world is like saying bread exists because there is flour, yeast, etc. in the world.

First, we live in a fallen world in which evil exists and awful things like the shooting happen.

In Mr. Bush's world, there exist only two groups — the enemies of freedom and the lovers of freedom — the evil and the good.

It is through this inner encounter alone that evil becomes accessible and demonstrable in the world; for «it exists in the world apart from man only in the form of quite general opposites,» embracing good and ill and good and bad as well as good and evil.

He called upon the Church to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»

By declaring that you witness evil in the world, you are also declaring that good must also exist.

On a Trinitarian approach, we understand that we and the world exist in the broader context of the economy of salvation: we should expect to see imperfections and evil, both because we ourselves are fallen observers, and because we are observing a «groaning» Creation, in transition from a lost Paradise to «a new Heaven and a new Earth».

A growing number of classical theists believe that although God could coerce in the weaker sense, God has chosen not to do so because a world in which there exists significant freedom and the potential for evil is superior to a world containing neither.

Then on the problem of evil it says: «But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.»

Guru, you have this dualistic conception that somehow God could not exist if there were suffering or evil in the world.

Claiming that [the Christian] god must exist due to «good» and «evil» being in balance for 10,000 years is as meaningless as me claiming Krishna must exist becuase the World's ying and yang have been in perfect balance for 13,700,000,000 years.

Evil happens in the world because evil happens, atheists don't blame god for it, but just point out that if your god exists and we're wrong, then he has a lot of explaining toEvil happens in the world because evil happens, atheists don't blame god for it, but just point out that if your god exists and we're wrong, then he has a lot of explaining toevil happens, atheists don't blame god for it, but just point out that if your god exists and we're wrong, then he has a lot of explaining to do.

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

God therefore is not unaffected by a world in which there exist discord, hatred, evil and suffering.

Our freedom is that though evil exists it does not have to have power over us any longer that is the message of the Gospel even though slaves became christians it did nt initially stop slavery not for many years but it helped the slaves to survive and gave them hope that one day God had something better for them and eventually because of christians activists slavery was abolished.Just like us our hope is not in the here and now but that one day we would be finally free from the corruption of this world but while we are in it we are not under its evil influence and i not meaning that bad things do not happen to christians but that in Christ we have been set free from its power over us.brentnz

Religion is used to protect so much of the evil in the world that it comes close to being actual proof that «GOD» does not exist.

Like Mehta, Lewis objected to God on the basis of the evil he saw in the world, but his conversion mirrored that of Leah's as he realised that his objection only made sense if a moral realm existed: «My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust.

Above all, he simply couldn't comprehend what it was about the moral argument that had possessed her to become a Christian, especially in a world in which her God allowed such evil and suffering to exist.

It's common in my experience for some folks to take the view that God does not exist or that if he does exist that he must be evil because of all the suffering he lets happen in the world.

They can't imagine a loving God who could allow the evil that exists in this world.

In the light of this broader description of evil we should reformulate the theodicy problem so as to ask not only about the justification of disorder in a world created by an allegedly all - good and all - powerful God, but also about a world that seemingly can not exist apart from an intrinsic adventurousnesIn the light of this broader description of evil we should reformulate the theodicy problem so as to ask not only about the justification of disorder in a world created by an allegedly all - good and all - powerful God, but also about a world that seemingly can not exist apart from an intrinsic adventurousnesin a world created by an allegedly all - good and all - powerful God, but also about a world that seemingly can not exist apart from an intrinsic adventurousness.

Evil, disease, natural disasters, selfishness, hate all exist in this world, but not in the next, in heaven.

As Robert Law puts it: «Gnosticism traces into the eternal the schism of which we are conscious in the world of experience, and posits two independent arid antagonistic principles of existence from which, severally, come all the good and all the evil that exist.»

The problem of suffering is usually posed as a question: «If God is all - powerful and all good, why does he allow evil to exist in the world?»

Potty training is perhaps the most necessary evils that exist in the parenting world and these tweets about potty training sum it up perfectly.

It was then his father (Ben Reed) explained that there were three kinds of people in the world: Sheep — who don't believe evil exists.

Official Premise: When world wrestling champion Rip Thomas (WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan) refuses to join a competing network, an evil executive creates a new program, «The Battle of the Tough Guys,» where rules don't exist and men engage in an all - out brawl for money.

In The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones we are handed the revelation that the world we think we know exists on top of a supernatural plane in which the forces of good and evil are constantly at waIn The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones we are handed the revelation that the world we think we know exists on top of a supernatural plane in which the forces of good and evil are constantly at wain which the forces of good and evil are constantly at war.

Perhaps more so, since The Other exists overwhelmingly in the natural world, where evil can not be explained away as a by - product of demonic possession.

As long as there is evil in the world trying to pretend that it doesn't exist, I'll have more than ample fodder for my novels.

310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?