Sentences with phrase «evil human actions»

Niebuhr said to «believe that there is a devil is to believe that there is a principle or force of evil antecedent to any evil human action.

Not exact matches

«We must never forget that the evil comes not from the actions of «subhuman vermin» but from the heart of a fallen, sacred yet degraded, human being,» I wrote.

My point is simply this: it's not fair to conclude that religion is evil based on human action.

I can condemn the actions as evil because they attacked and hurt my human family, my relatives.

Both of these approaches negate our responsibility for our own actions and ignore the reality of human will and our ability to do good or evil.

The two most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30

«5 Today Professor Hans Morgenthau says that the «ubiquity of the desire for power... constitutes the ubiquity of evil in human action.

God does not erase the distinction between good and evil in history because of the moral ambiguity of all human actions.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

We have learned from the Enlightenment and its Marxist negative image some bad lessons: a self - righteous view of human nature, individual or collective, a good - evil dichotomy in our judgment on others and in our social action, a shallow sense of human community, and an exaggerated confidence in the power of human beings to manage and control their own destinies.

Though I have said that God takes the blame for the sinful actions of human beings, and even inspires people to write that He told them to do these things when He really did not, this guiding principle does not explain every evil situation that takes place in the Old Testament, or in the rest of history.

But are the suspected gunman's alleged actions best understood as human evil, in light of evidence that the suspect has a mental disorder?

Oord takes Wesley's concept of God as Spirit and explains how God as provider of initial aims is not responsible for the evil that results from human action because God does not have the control that humans have over human bodies.

Here are some of the worse ones: «Moral Evil — actions done by humans which cause suffering»

God's forgiveness, we have seen, is creative action for the renewal of human life wasted by evil, in full view of the reality of the evil, but with steady goodwill towards those who have done the evil.

«I am committed to tackle this evil crime and help protect the innocent victims it yields, which is why today I have signed the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Human Trafficking which will provide us with a structured framework to introduce minimum rights and protection for all identified victims of trafficking,» said Mr Reid.

The Smurfs 2 (PG for rude humor and action sequences) Animated sequels finds Papa (Jonathan Winters), Clumsy (Anton Yelchin), Grouchy (George Lopez) and Vanity Smurf (John Oliver) teaming up with a couple of human pals (Jayma Mays and Neil Patrick Harris) to rescue Smurfette (Katy Perry) from the clutches of an evil wizard (Hank Azaria).