Indeed, with regard to the historical development of philosophy and science we know it to be the case that it was the doctrine of the Fall, which is peculiar to the Judeo - Christian faith, which enabled the Christian culture to maintain an ontological distinction between matter and
evil in the face of cultural opposition.
«God's role is not the combat of productive force with productive force, of destructive force with destructive force; it lies in the patient operation of the over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization «16 Thus at times Whitehead appears to say, as Ely contends, that evil remains
evil in the world of events («God can not unmake the past») but that in God's experience evil is transmuted into goodness.
So the evangelist here invites us to look beyond the relief of human suffering to a mighty act of God's chosen Servant, bringing the kingdom into history and dethroning the rule of
evil in the world.
Cain was satan's seed bringing in
his evil in to the world again, this 2nd earth age and Abel is Adam's seed.
They deplored the inclusion of the whole nation in the Church regardless of
the evil in many people's lives.
If there's
any evil in the world, it's clearly those who are religious.
How does this action fit in with Jesus» words about nonresistance to
evil in Matthew 5:39 and love of enemies in Matthew 5:43 - 44?
They shout «Allah» with
evil in their hearts and fool you into doing foolish things that give them power and money.
STupid, Becuase there is sickness and
evil in the world there is no God.
It is the same as the klan or the black panthers who only see
evil in those from the opposing groups.
This world is the best of all possible worlds because it is the work of a supreme Mini The so - called
evil in the world is an integral part of the goodness of the whole.
This contrasts with philosophies that, justifying the existence of
evil in God's creation, would posit it as necessary for the machinery of the world — in other words, with all forms of theodicy that merely explain evil away.
«We are deceivers, yet true in clinging to the idea of the fall as a symbol of the origin and the nature of
evil in human life.»
Their description of
evil in negative terms, as privatio boni in subjecto, is somewhat analogous to the description, in physics, of coldness or darkness.
Also, if there is no wrong, why do Atheists say «There is so much
evil in the world»?
Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render
evil in our world terribly real to us.
And as for the other
evil in this world, I am writing to them, TOM!
Such a view of things does not deny for a moment the presence of
evil in the creation nor the appalling reality of sinfulness in men and women.
You can't tell what it is that he really wants from you or why he allows for
evil in the world... Ok, good luck with that.
This is hardly
an evil in Bergson's views given that the operation of such intellectual forces is also a condition for acting freely; in the complete sense.
Besides, when you atheists say «There is so much
evil in the world», you are acknowledging there is right and wrong?
By declaring that you witness
evil in the world, you are also declaring that good must also exist.
There is no inherent
evil in nature, the world, or material things in the Christian ethic.
-LSB-...] about fighting the power of
evil in high places, and fighting institutions with a Gospel message, this is what I'm talking about.
And it is indeed said of the successors of Jehu — Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam — that they did
evil in the sight of the Lord, that the house of Jehu continued in the way of the sin of Jeroboam, that it was not a holy house, and that the zeal of Jehu for the Lord was quickly extinguished.
Daniel, which influenced them all, was itself influenced by Zoroastrian teaching on the Last Judgment, the battle between good and
evil in which humans and angels participate, the punishment of evildoers by fire, elements not present elsewhere in Old Testament tradition.
Instead of asking ourselves, «How can life be considered good when there is so much
evil in it?»
Because unfortunately there is
evil in the world that must be stopped.
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.»
«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed
evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.
Perhaps one fears getting to know anything of the implicit proof of the existence of
evil in the world.
There is no impulse that is
evil in itself; man makes it so when he yields to it instead of controlling it.
Here's one I like... what kind of god would put a tree of knowledge of good and
evil in a garden and then tell everyone not to eat its fruit?
The specific structure of
evil in the human person can not be explained as a result of the «moral censorship» of society.
If I was given an opportunity to confront
the evil in my dream, what would I say to it?
That is essentially what Christ is saying here; we shouldn't part of
the evil in the world.
We are
all evil in the sense that we have all done wrong.
What this means becomes clear through Jung's statement that it is necessary to succumb «in part» to
evil in order that the unification of good and evil may take place.
The observation of
the evil in the world, and anxious questionings about it cause you to doubt God's existence; but the very fact that one sees and
Those who understand Buber's philosophy will not hesitate to answer yes, for that philosophy is essentially concrete, close to experience, and realistic as only a life open to the reality of
evil in the profoundest sense could produce.
Jesus» teaching reprimand the corrupt uses of falsely justifying violence / killing and
the evil in our nature that seeks violence for it's own sake, but He does not remove sound established theological truths and teach that God as we understand Him in the Old Testament (the one He calls Father) is false.
Without this limit the world of It would be
evil in itself and incapable of being redeemed.
This two-fold belief seems, prima facie, to be in conflict with
the evil in the world.
I'm just saddened that someone who obviously feels that religion is a source of
evil in this world would work so hard to tear others down simply for believing in something.
With the pureness from
evil in YAHSHUA and YAHSHUA»S Spirit of pureness in our hearts, we can live a life SetApart from evil, a life SetApart unto YAHWEH!
Others may say you are a romantic, naïve idealist who underestimates the power and extent of
evil in the world and what is required to cope with it.
4Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is
evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
Who doesn't see
the evil in that?
As much as we despise
the evil in the world and in our own lives, think of the horror of being in a fallen state, but without sin.
It's
evil in it's nature and it corrupts the human spirit.