Sentences with phrase «evil in the world makes»

Bob, Yes Christians have hope, and the evil in this world makes us stronger, and moulds us, and tests us, so that we can become vessels worthy of Gods Glory!!

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The company told investors in 2012 it was built to «make the world more open and connected,» and way back in 2004 Google famously said its first rule of business was «don't be evil.»

It makes me very nervous that Islam today finds more and more acceptance in the Western World though it is clear that it is a religion of war, evil, destruction, death, sorrow, torture, pain, doom, darkness, backwardness, hatred, revenge, bossiness, etc..

Considering that all these horrific things in the bible occur in close to 4000 years ago in a time and world culture you obviously can't be that familiar with makes you the perfect judge on how evil the bible is.

Second, the logic of divine over-power makes God responsible for all unnecessary evil in the world.

For us to come into this world to undergo God's test it had to be through Adam and Eve, and that could not have happened if they were in a state of innocence and had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and because of that we are brought into this world for a limited time as mortals and while as mortals we take the test God has given us to see if we are willing to follow God and not simply made to follow God.

Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done in the world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any suffering impossible for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws in accordance with which everything should be ordered.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

He talks about the «goodness as we possess» (such as altruistic acts) and says that even if religion did no other harm, its carefully nurtured divisiveness is enough to make it «a significant force for evil in the world.»

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

This is more than a verbal difference, for the one takes the world's evil as its base line, the other takes God's goodness as it has been made manifest in Jesus.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

So, until the day comes... And it will be not long from now, YES, SATAN / EVIL / BAD RULES THIS WORLD, AND SOON OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WILL BE LOCKING THAT BITCH UP IN A PIT AND BRING HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH Not trying to yell, just put the full emotional value of how happy thinking of that day makes me... Like my mom always said: If your not happy dummy, what are you doing?

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

Man, can't make any post on this topic without it turning into a discussion about whether or not religion is responsible for all the evil in the world...

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

In recent years numerous attempts have been made to solve the ancient problem of evil by way of a Given within the nature of God, the assertion of «the demonic» in the world (its metaphysical status being somewhat cloudy), or a forthright reinstatement of the existence of a personal deviIn recent years numerous attempts have been made to solve the ancient problem of evil by way of a Given within the nature of God, the assertion of «the demonic» in the world (its metaphysical status being somewhat cloudy), or a forthright reinstatement of the existence of a personal deviin the world (its metaphysical status being somewhat cloudy), or a forthright reinstatement of the existence of a personal devil.

Choices may be made in the world which result in distortion or blockage; there are evils, to use the traditional word, which can and do interfere with the realization of a pattern that is good and right.

Social action groups are excellent for couples in this stage, keeping them involved with problems and perspectives beyond themselves, while using their aggressive energy to help reduce a social evil and make it a better world.

He says that God perceives the evils of the world not as final but as transient, because «he sees them in such a setting that what is itself evil performs a good function and hence helps to make up a valuable whole» (p. 38).

As we live in a world desperate for a glimpse of God, desperate for a rescue, crushed by evil and poverty and war and the grind of lonely existence in quiet desperation, we, the Church are part of God's plan to push back that darkness and make space for his Kingdom.

Again, free will in play, evil made its way into the world by selfish choices.

Whitehead envisions that in the divine life, far more than in the human, there is a redemption of the evil of the world, a redemption which does not remove its evil, but which includes it within a whole to which even human evil can make some positive contribution, however limited.

He comments in Religion in the Making, «The fact of evil, interwoven with the texture of the world, shows that in the nature of things there remains effectiveness for degradation... the loss of the greater reality.»

So much in Christianity had me seeing these kinds of things only in the light of demons and evil and satan, that when I started reading and understanding more (when I was in junior high school) and comprehending the concept of the birth - life - death - rebirth cycles, and how there needs to be death and decay for their to be birth and growth... it really made a huge impression on how I saw the world.

On the creation of evil in the world I have never seen this passage before but it does make sence.

this cult tried to change everything in the country to match their religious doctrine, a book that says gay people are evil, women are second class citizens, the world was made 6k years ago and a whole bunch of evil / ignorant dogma.

Yet if theology in its anxiety to protect God's innocence denies that the divinity of the God / Man has in fact made satisfaction to humanity for the evil inherent in the structures of existence, we fail to acknowledge the full passion of God's commitment to and involvement in his world.

One of the most well - known passages in Atlas Shrugged goes on and on about the evil of religion in so many ways; John Galt doesn't use this as an incidental point in his radio address but makes no bones that there is no religion in his world view.

Make it make sense so that someone who sees the pain and evil in the world will understand God's burden of responsibility for setting this whole thing in motMake it make sense so that someone who sees the pain and evil in the world will understand God's burden of responsibility for setting this whole thing in motmake sense so that someone who sees the pain and evil in the world will understand God's burden of responsibility for setting this whole thing in motion.

The U.S. has often been ingenious in making evils invisible, as critics around the world have been quick to point out.

Everyone knows that evil is a real force in the world and cuts a hole in the fabric of Being; but that gash in Being is also what makes evil, in the metaphysical sense, a non «entity, a gap, a privation.

In his celebrated Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis represents evil's hold on the world with the image of an enduring winter — Narnia under the power of the White Witch, who makes it «always winter and never Christmas.»

The only one who can not is Lucifer because he do not want to, God heart is not made of iron, if there are evil people alive in this world it is only because God want them to repent to, there are most evil people who as a children or teenager was sweet but because of another being became evil, Only God know what it did make them change or their pain but only one things is sure as God he did have the first seat to see all their pain and live, and to my point of view as a Father it is by no means lesser than the pain he did feel for them or them victimes, like a electric chair.

However, unlike us, they don't have material bodies and don't live in the material world — this effectively means that, whatever choice they make, whether for good or for evil, their decision is final.

Why God, combining endless power with complete goodness, should have made a world in which disaster indiscriminately falls with tragic incidence on good and evil, remained in large measure an unanswered question.

Also, if one would read Genesis - Malachi then one would know these question asked by Smithsonian, how we were created, and why evil came about, and to help, YHWH made us for His own sake unconditionally; He gave us a choice to decide with our own hearts what, or who we want to be in this world, as well as to who we'll be to HIM, whether being righteous, obedient children, or not the choice is ours we're responsible for our own righteousness in Ezekiel 14:14 - 21.

Christians would continue to struggle with the meaning of suffering and evil in the good world that God had made.

And yet this divine esse is good because it not only makes ordinary goodness to be really good but because it also makes ordinary evil to be really evil in a real world with real consequences.

The undergarments are viewed as a symbolic reminder of the sacred covenants made in temple ceremonies, and are viewed as an either symbolic or literal source of protection from the evils of the world.

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.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

Hence God is responsible for these evils in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible.

Hatred and condemnation of the evil - doer will make him evil himself and not just in his actions, for it will cause him to cut himself off and imprison himself in the world of his actions.

In the coming years, as today's young men and women take up their responsibilities and seek to make sense of the world, it will not be adequate if Catholics who are worried - as we all ought to be - about the sexual mayhem that has been created in recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associateIn the coming years, as today's young men and women take up their responsibilities and seek to make sense of the world, it will not be adequate if Catholics who are worried - as we all ought to be - about the sexual mayhem that has been created in recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associatein recent years simply denounce the evils of extreme feminism or even of the ghastly contraceptive, anti-life culture with which it has been associated.

But I am convinced of this: the no - God theory leaves the most important facts in human life utterly without possibility of explanation, while theism opens wide the door to an outlook on life which makes even the world's evil seem ultimately soluble.

A second problem with Hasker's argument is that, although he claims that he is arguing that God should allow gratuitous evils, he is in fact arguing that even the gratuitous evils are not really gratuitous, because they contribute to «God's intention to make us responsible moral individuals,» which from his perspective is a more important consideration than the relative balance of enjoyment and suffering in the world.

Although Hasker concludes this argument by pointing out that for it too «it is God who is responsible for the existence of creatures who have the freedom and power to bring about great evils,» I had explicitly said that «God is responsible for [the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet] in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible» (Process 75; cf. God 308 - 09).

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

To make sense of this world with all its good and evil, hopes and despairs, joys and anguishes, as an Asian Christian is the main theological task of the Christian church in asia.