Sentences with phrase «evil than those we human beings»

I believe that sickness and biological death represent a lesser evil than those we human beings bring upon ourselves.

Not exact matches

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

«Salvation» began to be taught as an extrinsic juridical transaction rather than an experiential internal transformation and Law rather than Grace [Unconditional kenotic Love] became the solution to coping with human evil in classical Protestantism.

Our first hopeful objectives as humans is to decide that Good id better than Evil and that we want to be part of one over the other (while humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we're still not there yet).

They deal with evil as it needs to be dealt with» from a human rather than divine perspective.

(It may be worth noting here that the whole point of real Christianity lies not in interference with the human power to choose but in producing a willing consent to choose good rather than evil.)

-- No disrespect intended, but the story of human evil is far broader than your 51 years of life, your hurt feelings, your stolen items and your bruised head.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

Because humans are flawed, some more than others, depending on what has been learned and experienced though out life; also the kinds of sin and wounds we have been exposed to, which determine gateways that give access for evil to dwell in us.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Crudely put, the Pelagian view denied original sin; evil was more a case of unrealized human potential than some kind of congenital condition.

It is a view that takes authority to be a positive good rather than a necessary evil alone and in so doing preserves a truth about human nature and society that stands in danger of loss.

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.

I am not convinced that this objectification of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity of the human individual or to the dynamic of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.

I know that we are humans and we are imperfect, no humans are better than another one, we all have our share of good and evil.

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.

When your post calls out for atheists to also review the way they see the world, to not think themselves superior because they are comfortable with their current Laws and Theories, and to always concede that the unknown is the unknown, that human nature, rather than faith, is what generates evil and bigotry, then maybe you'd have something.

The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.

Since sin is located fundamentally in freedom, and freedom is connected with human self - transcendence, corporate evil is something less than sin.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Humans are evil and good enough to more than account for the acts attributed to either god or the devil.

The only way a person more ethically advanced than Saddam Hussein can approve of this grotesquely evil practice is by assuming, as Southern leaders once did about slaves, that there is no human victim involved.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

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»?

Human nature comprises evil as well as good, and that has never been shown to be more obvious than in this century, when 6 million Jews were killed by the most important, modern nation in the world, the most democratic, and the most intellectually and educationally advanced.

It appeared that humanity could be more brutal than the beasts, that human moral progress was a charade, and that evil and suffering were a fundamental part of human existence.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary?

Affinities, Brown notes, include «the social or communal stress as a safeguard against individualistic Christianity, the stress on praxis, a methodology arising out of the human situation rather than being imposed on it, a passionate commitment to the dispossessed, and a recognition of the systemic nature of evil» (p. 141).

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

Still, it is much more difficult than Hobbes thinks for humans to be purely evil in all respects.

If the horrors of the modern age suggest that human evil is perhaps even more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human revulsion against such evil.

But for a human to become intemperate on The Walking Dead is deadly, for intemperance «more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to «take heart» against the wounding power of evil in the world.»

... 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.

It's much less easy to ignore corporate greed, human evil, sex trafficking, child soldiers and blood diamonds than it used to be.

The 55 - year - old actor had long discussions with director Matt Reeves about how to ensure his portrayal of The Colonel in the rebooted sci - fi franchise was «more human» than how evil characters tend to come across on big - screen productions.

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.

What we never hear about is that the perpetrator was, more often than not, not an evil person, but a human being like you or me.

Based on true events, it's more of a tale conducive to human drama than in incredible stunt pieces and yin - yang good / evil confrontations.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Parvo is evil it is a demonic disease that takes the most innocent and to this day his death upsets me more than some human ones because of the truly evil nature of this disease.

Being a simple high school student means that Younho can't withstand many attacks and his hearts will drop down fairly quickly, reminiscent in style of the earlier Resident Evil games where player characters were ostensibly normal, squishy human beings rather than the invincible death machines of more recent titles.

Climate disruption, biotech wars and evil aliens are much more probable than mindless reanimated corpses that, for some reason, crave human flesh.)

Clearly, nature itself was pumping much more CO2 into the atmosphere than evil humans who are constantly vilified by the hysterical global warming alarmists.

The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grain represents a new form of human evil, with consequences possibly for greater and longer lasting than any past wrongdoing inflicted by men against their fellow human beings.»

There is a bottom - up factor, meaning that almost all the new students who go into climate studies these days are motivated by a desire to «save the world» from evil humans rather than to be critical, skeptical or uncommitted observers.