Who can blame him, with so many
evil humans at large?
Not exact matches
«
At least when there's an
evil dictator, that
human is going to die.
a) that the bible is an imperfect
human representation of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand
at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by
evil humans or spirits
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire
evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point
at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell
at all.
In 2016, he said that God had been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the
human person
at the center,» and declared that inequality is «the greatest
evil that exists.»
Some would argue that looking
at the naked
human body is not
evil, because God made it beautiful, and Adam and Eve were naked in the garden.
You say: «To understand God, Scripture, ourselves, other people,
human history, and everything else, we must begin
at the cross, and we must see it as
evil.
At the same time, some Christians have so spiritualized redemption as the promised reward of the individual in the next world, that they have ignored the suffering and
evil of
human life in this world.
To completely correct or repair the damage done
at the moment in time that the
evil deed was done, would take a divine altering of history and the destruction of every
human.
Furthermore, it insists that he shared our
human lot of hunger, thirst, and fatigue; that he experienced anger before
evil and endured agony
at the need to die.
So we're
at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of
evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as
human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.
With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy
at work for the dispersal of
evil forces and the total renewal of
human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.
Nothing
human is absolute
evil, not even war; and Versailles and Munich — those «open covenants, openly arrived
at» — cry to heaven how bad a peace can be.
Or we could go one step further and credit the devil with all the
evil, thus leaving
humans responsible for nothing
at all.
Although this is not the place to discuss
at greater length the nature of
evil,
human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.
At the
human level power is understood to be the capacity to actualize the potentialities for good and
evil of an individual or a group.
Is there one continuous thread of development throughout
human history — sometimes reduced to a trickle,
at other times increasing in volume — that shapes the destiny of man for good or
evil?
It is a long way from such an ideal of political activity to the actualities in which it is carried on; but it is essential to our
human attempt to live together to see that the «game of politics» is not merely a necessary
evil but that it has
at its best a link with legitimate good.
The
evils reflected in their words, and indeed portrayed throughout the Old Testament — avarice, exploitation, bribery, chicanery, and attempts
at seizure of power for personal gain — are perennial
human tendencies which appear in every State.
«27 Professor Calhoun warns all sentimental humanitarians not to forget the «cruel puzzle» that truth - seeking and generosity can get man into trouble.28 The
human mind frequently seems to break down
at the attempt to make valid practical judgments among the goods and
evils of experience.
But the
evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some
human relations
at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14
Even when our enemies are so corrupt and
evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can
at least recognize that they are fellow
human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.
One could
at least stop cherry picking sins and the sinners in question and just decide to become an equal opportunity bigot, hating the whole of the
human race because of the systemic and systematic sin and
evil of humanity.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of
human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the
evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up
at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in
human life — the reality of moral
evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved
at all.
Isn't Griffin, though,
at least justified in contending that FWTs such as Plantinga must do more than simply preserve logical consistency if they want their considerations to have «any relevance to the problem of
evil as
humans actually grapple with it»?
At least among those untutored in the rarefied mountain air of meta «ethical theory, ethics usually denotes that range of
human behavior that can be subsumed under the rubric of judgments about inherent good and
evil.
Yet such love has its reflections in our
human experience
at the point where men offer loyal understanding and care to one another in the midst of
human evil.
Then on a larger scale, consider the
human condition, that every person is wicked, by nature, their natural inclination is toward
evil to begin with,
at least when compared to God's standard.
(2)
Evil is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or
human nature, but rather a choice, freely exercised
at any given moment.
(3)
Evil is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or
human nature (creation was created good), but neither are
humans wholly free to choose the good
at any given moment.
Humans fail
at the one command given — don't eat of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil 3.
Accordingly, there is some validity to pessimism as one contemplates the real capacity of the
human race to do
evil and the possibility that mankind may precipitate incalculably tragic
evil and suffering by its wrong decisions regarding destructive warfare and the population explosion.53 Given creative becoming as an everlastingly continuous process, Hartshorne declares that there will always be some
evil in the world; but the amount of
evil will always be
at least partially determined by creative choices.
The churches were called to live in the midst of
human struggles and to be present
at the bleeding points of humanity, thus being near those who suffered
evil, and taking the risk of being counted among the wicked.
The minister's theology in preaching must be brought to bear
at every point on the
human situation: on prayer; on the problem of
evil; on sin and repentance; on the fact of death.
some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him...
evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the
human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and
at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...
At last week's memorial service in Tucson for the victims of the Arizona shooting, President Obama said that «scripture tells us that there is
evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy
human understanding.
some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him...
evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the
human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and
at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...
This goes to the heart of purpose of
human creation, Allah says that
humans will be tested through losing their wealth and loved ones and personal sufferings in the same way when they are tested by having wealth and children's so we can see who was the most patient and righteous
at the end so let's not blame God for all
evils a
human being is able to commit.
This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue
at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death,
human freedom, the ultimate nature of
evil and the
human need for prayer and religious practice.
He does not mean that once upon a time there was a Garden of
Evil («the state of nature»), the experience of which taught
humans at a specific date to value civilization.
... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which
at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or
evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in
human experience.
I know folks will want to look
at DiCaprio's Calvin Candie as the villain, but in the end he's only as
evil and devious as the times would suggest or allow; he was a slave owner who thought his slaves less than
human.
This is just me making up connections where none exist, of course, but I still like to think that if there were some crazy intertextuality going on, the sinister - sounding voice that intones here about totally - not -
at - all -
evil reasons for testing dangerous rollercoasters on live
human subjects will one day, after the robot apocalypse, be putting people through much more rigourous testing, perhaps while wearing orange jumpsuits.
At first, thanks to a cleverly deceptive storyline, Black Panther may lead you to believe the big battle will involve defeating the caricature - like
evil white guy, Ulysses Klaue, played by Andy Serkis, appearing in his
human form rather than through motion capture, with a good dash of Eurotrash.
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While the movie doesn't come close to touching the very best of the genre (Babe), it was charming and clever
at times, and it elicited genuine laughs as it followed the covert operations of
evil cats and
human - loving dogs carried out behind the backs, and underneath the noses, of the unsuspecting
human characters.
But the big bad bosses of the film are also a disappointment, including the
evil - but - conflicted black - magic witch in a good
human's body, Enchantress, and the superfluous inclusion of her hulking demonic brother
at her side, Incubus, whose abilities are thinly defined and whose motivations other than perhaps family loyalty are not
at all dealt with.
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