Sentences with phrase «evil of the world»

We should look for a faith that finds the real evils of this world worth railing against; one that doesn't need a self - made, trivial diversion in order to feel valid.

Instead, God is most fully revealed as God when He soaks up the sin and violence and evil of the world onto Himself, and allows people to think of Him as accused, outcast, accursed, despised, and rejected.

Ely states that God is not good because he «integrates the achieved evils of the world with their ideal complements in a system in which the evil character disappears as far as God is concerned» (p. 39).

The U.S.A. holds off the chaos and evil of the world until Jesus comes back.

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

Wolfenstein 2 emphasizes not just the dangers of complacency but also the value of resistance, by connecting it to the very real evils of our world.

Set around 3Com's spin - off of Palm in March 2000, All the Evil of This World weaves together seven separate voices from seven separate individuals.

Now they are sometimes portrayed as the evil of the world.

All the Evil of This World is a wild ride that's hard to put down.

His memoir, Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers, was named Businessweek's # 1 general business book of 2011, and his first novel All the Evil of This World was published in 2016.

Jared's first novel is not for the faint - hearted — if you like Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, and Thomas Pynchon, then you'll love All the Evil of This World.

The ancient writers did not foresee all of the evils of this world.

Lol, religion is the evil of the world, and until eradicated, will continue to cause war, hatred, intollerance, bigotry, and over population.

Yes, it is true that God made man for woman, but we humans who has been born for the short time we are here must not judge each other for our indifferences and beliefs; we must help each other dodge the evils of this world and come together as the children of God.

11: 16 - 19) No word of complaint over the evil of the world, that it would be better never to have been born, that the beast is better off than man, such as the Jewish apocalypses contain, dominates the preaching of Jesus.

Holy Father has spoken out about the evil of the world in all of its various faces.

The corollary of this demand for the redemption of the world and not just of the individual soul is the refusal to accept the Gnostic rejection of creation — the division between the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of God which leaves the evil of the world forever unredeemable.

But the evils of this world, so far as it is given us to discern them, are to be resisted, not merely endured.

The evil of the world is that those elements which are translucent so far as transmission is concerned, in themselves are of slight weight; and that those elements with individual weight, by their discord, impose upon vivid immediacy the obligation that it fade into night.

But when the gospel challenges and corrects the evils of this world, as we must do also, it does not use harsh rhetoric and name - calling, but parody and humor.

With all of the evil of the world, we can still affirm its goodness.

His affirmation of the oneness of God and the ultimate oneness of God and the world has deepened in its paradoxical quality as he has taken more and more realistic cognizance of the evil of the world, but it has not wavered or weakened.

Tom, I agree, religion is one of the evils of this world — that's why I am not religious, I am in a relationship with Jesus!

To hold that the evil of this world will be redeemed by an agency beyond the human person and time is to destroy the motive for secular transformation.

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).

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.

They will worship grandly and yet will also organize effectively, combating the evils of this world.

Two issues are important here: (1) Is the evil of the world included in God's consequent nature and if so, in what way is it included?

One additional factor will influence this response, namely, his attitude toward involvement in the evil of the world.

To be the answer for people whose most deeply felt need was release from sin or escape from the evils of the world — people whose common sense was different from ours — it was fitting that Jesus should be sinless and divine.

As for most of the rest of your rant, you certainly don't offer a better truth for the evils of the world.

There can be no possible question that the influence of the church upon the ills and evils of the world is carried out through laymen — or not at all.

But little did he know that Jesus, by submitting Himself as the willing scapegoat for all the violence, enmity, hatred, and evil of the world, was unmasking the power and dominion of Satan, and thus, defeating Satan even as Satan thought he was striking the victorious blow.

Why does he go from distant, to tugging, to finally defending the girl, holding back the evils of the world, LITTERALY protecting her from harm.

When, in the person of Jesus Christ, God steps into the evil of the world, it does not overpower Him, but He overcomes it.

Catholics are the evil of the world, on par with Muslims and hard - line Christians... Yuck.

It is God's answer to the evils of a world that rebels against him and tries to deny his lordship.

The apocalypticist typically believes that God must come quickly because he can not any longer tolerate the evil of the world.

Yet, if he is perfect, how can he really be affected by the consequences of the imperfections and evils of the world?

° (43) 127:2 — «The evil of the world is... that those elements with individual weight, by their discord, impose upon vivid immediacy the obligation that it fade into night.

It is the obstinate and ignorant Christians like yourself that create the real evils of this world, and I'm not talking about the some man with red skin, bad breath, a hot temper, and a tail — but real evil, like bashing gays or creating wars like the religious nutcases do all the time.

Voegelin sensed that this unwillingness to submit to the structure of reality, and to bear the evils of the world, was a kind of spiritual disease, one that arose again in the Middle Ages and spread into modern times.

Prince Buddha, despite the happy circumstances in which his life was set, became oppressed with the evil of the world and its suffering, and early became obsessed with a passion to be freed from this round of birth.

The New Testament proclaims that no matter how evil the sin, God stands ready to receive the sinner and to forgive the sin, He stands ready to receive into his own being all the evil of the world to bring about its transformation, and this experience of evil is the divine suffering epitomized by the crucifixion.