Sentences with phrase «evil the power of»

In affirming God, he first rejected the blandishments and lies of the wilderness, just as in the baptismal liturgy the candidate says yes to God by first saying no to Satan, the evil powers of this world, and all sinful desires.

Set dragons free and banish the evil powers of enemies!

Whether courageously uniting the Triforce, battling against the evil power of Ganondorf or fighting for the wise Princess Zelda, Link is a hero for the ages.

Link sallies after him, intent on getting his stuff back, but learns Skull Kid is being warped by the evil power of Majora's mask.

The journey was captured in video walkthrough form to be shown to all the aspiring Time Patrollers so that they could learn from the experience and show evil the power of good always prevails!

Not exact matches

The son to the demon - lord Mephisto, Blackheart is evil incarnate brought up under the teachings of his father to learn the powers of corruption.

Vatican City (AFP)- Pope Francis on Monday blasted the «money stained with blood» and «evil power» wielded by Italian organised crime as he met the heads of the country's anti-mafia squad.

As I see it, it's the love of power that causes evil in the world.

But Malone isn't one of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.

Take away their ability to tax and inflate and so much of their power to do evil things to good people is gone.

The Court proceeded to observe that «it is uncontroverted that GHGs are harmful to both health and the environment and as such, constitute an evil that justifies the exercise of the criminal law power.»

As the Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed, a law aimed at suppressing or reducing an «evil» or addressing a public concern relating to peace, order, security, morality, health, or some other similar purpose is a valid exercise of the federal government's criminal law power.

That way, if they win the race to find the random number and become the designated timestamper for a given batch of transactions, they won't use that power for evil (like censoring transactions).

We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

There a voice in all of you telling you something isn't right, its not temptation from higher evil power..

Without conscience or consequence an atheist in power is free to express the most inmost evils of atheism.

To confuse the law of gradualness whereby, as John Paul proposed, the sinner is gradually brought to face the fullness of the truth, with a gradualness of the law whereby some sheep are dispensed from the prohibitions of intrinsically evil acts, as Buttiglione seems to propose, would be to undermine the message of salvation and mistake the power of Jesus's Redemption (See John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, n 34).

«This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil.

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

The only explination is that these laws and good and evil are constucts of society, not some higher power.

After he became Pope, Pius XII did everything in his power to prevent the war from breaking out — issuing appeal after appeal, warning the mass destruction that would ensue — but the forces of evil would not listen, and war commenced.

Beneath the magic and fantasy of fairy tales, there are important truths about power, responsibility, corruption and the reality — but ultimately the downfall — of evil.

A good many ethical and good individuals are here to try and expose the hypocrisy and power seeking addiction of «christian elders» to continuously «grooming» young impressionable children into their subjection via the vile evil that is belief in religious fantasy..

If you have the power to end suffering of little children at the hands of sick people and you don't then you are evil.

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

It's taken hundreds of years for whites to Put into place their mechanisms for obtaining and maintaining power over others... So I'd suspect that it would take just as ling for this evil to be reversed.

Eventually, the Satanic powers brought so much evil into the world, that they were once again able to lead the world to the brink of complete destruction.

When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.

The logic of anti-powerism, on the other hand, is that power is evil.

In God, Power and Evil, Griffin mentions two more criticisms of a free - will defense which affirms (16) and thus (14).

In fact, I claim the church is a power that often gives in to the forces of evil that the story of Jesus exposed.

The powers arrayed against God were able to get the pinnacle of God's new creation to betray God and fight for them in their evil cause.

It is Griffin's contention that only a theism that entails «C» omnipotence is able to reconcile divine power and goodness with the genuineness of evil.

You can overcome evil with good, because the cross overcame all of your evil and now gives you the power to do good.

I am aware of power differentials and privilege, of systemic injustice and evil, of my own anger and my gross tendency towards an evangelical hero complex.

In the Bible, evil exists prior to sin in the form of Lucifer and the other fallen angels who selfishly seek power apart from God.

Each example of evil, from the Imperial leadership to the Sith Lords and acolytes, is exemplified by the pursuit of power born out of self - ambition.

It is made out of varied materials, for the tyrannies that oppress the human spirit differ among themselves, but all make up one power of evil.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

«For we are not fighting against flesh - and - blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.»

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

That «The God of Christianity is so weak that He could allow such an evil thing to happen to His own Son» is a concept or idea that he found completely repulsive and a complete insult to the power of God.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

Since the whole world lies in the power of the evil one (1 John 5:19)-- saturated in darkness; the only way out is the Spirit of God, 1 John 1:5 - 7.

against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.