Sentences with phrase «evil was defeated»

I believe that evil was defeated that day and, its taking humankind time to make the choices not to do evil but come to a place of thriving, and peace for all.

Evil is defeated when forgiveness is offered and accepted.

«The big picture of Revelation is clear — Jesus returns, people must be ready, evil is defeated,» he says.

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Mayor Sadiq Khan of London said that the British capital stood «shoulder - to - shoulder» with France and that the «poisonous and evil» terrorists would be defeated.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

In Charleston, South Carolina, when those innocent people were shot during a bible study, the eloquence of their difficult words, «I forgive you,» spoke more directly to defeat the evil perpetrated by a tortured man than did the ensuing media firestorm which brought down one Confederate flag.

I wonder what will the religious wackos believe in the future... and the mighty prophet Tom Cruise climbed to the highest tower and defeated the evil Tethans that were holding his virgin wife Kate the tall one and his reign lasted for a hundred years as recorded in the fragments of the magic blue disks written by Sony the inscriber... or... Frodo the saviour..

The avengers and their allies must be willing to risk it all in order to defeat their most powerful enemy yet, the evil Thanos.

If you want to defeat evil, if you want to beat an evil empire, the best way is to follow the way of God, which is also the way of Jesus.

Victory is not the defeat of evil but its redemption.

Paul's life was not turned upside down because he reflected on the value of Jesus» life and decided that goodness, even in defeat, is a more potent force than triumphant evil.

Insistently attentive to horrendous evils in the actual lives of persons, she boldly draws on both philosophical and theological resources (the two, she says, are inseparable) to support her claim that the person experiencing evil can reach the firm and reasonable conclusion that evil has not defeated the goodness of God.

But in the century past that sense of mission has also been dramatically vindicated, notably in the defeat of Hitler and of what now almost everybody agrees was the evil empire of Soviet communism (never forgetting that, when Ronald Reagan spoke of the evil empire, the bien - pensant establishment was unanimous in condemning his reckless offense against the dream of «peaceful coexistence»).

All that Christian scripture asserts is that evil can not defeat God's purposes or thwart the coming of his kingdom.

Last year, I read about a bunch of churches that decided the way to defeat evil in their town was to write Bible verses on wooden stakes and then go drive them the ground in certain areas with the hopes that this would drive away any territorial sprits and reclaim the area for God.

But I also believe that light will eventually outshine the dark, that the reservists among us are fighting a war to defeat violence and evil, and that one day they will permanently win it.

We do come across demons almost all the time however, there are spirits for all sorts of things so we do still encounter demonic things all the time, we just diagnose it wrong, it's so wrong though because it causes us to use tactics to defeat the devil, when really we're dealing with demons and evil spirits that are oppressing us

Evil has been defeated by Jesus Christ.

If He can not defeat evil, He could therefore not be powerful, and therefore not personal.

In Zoroastrianism, God can be defeated by too much evil.

If evil transpires, this can only mean that the self is overpowered by an alien force, and reason can not be responsible for its own defeat.

If we are to not be destroyed, evil must be defeated, not destroyed.

It is to resist despair, to resist giving in to the terrible prices of the struggle — the loss of friends, the stubbornness of evil, the inevitable weariness — and to resist giving up hope when early victories become clouded by defeat, the way becomes difficult, and the goal seems ever more distant.

They know that evil can not be defeated by military force, only overcome with love.

It seems to me that as a set - apart people, Christians should be wary of cheering on violence as a means to defeating evil, when we know good and well that no amount of killing will ever make evil go away.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

We are going somewhere because we come from someone, someone unimaginable yet certainly with the attributes of all the goodness we aspire to, as well as, in some darkly terrifying way, of all the evil and waste that make us cower and may defeat us.

Evil is test of human choice, HE has power over hindu Lucifer ism, filthy secular ism of every thing, but HE honors HIS promise to human of their authority, HE will like human to defeat hinduism denial of truth absolute by himself.

«The gay movement is an evil insti.tution [whose] goal is to defeat the marriage - based society and replace it with a culture of se.xual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on se.xual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.»

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

Will we ever be able to defeat evil with guns and bombs?

The forces of evil conspired to defeat God, but he was able to triumph over evil in the end by raising up Jesus as the Christ.

Resurrection shows that the death of Jesus was not a shameful defeat, but was a glorious victory over all the forces of evil, over sin, death, and the devil.

It is always a temptation for individuals, rulers, and governments to think that they can defeat evil with violence, but here, in three of the opening chapters of the Bible, we are told that violence and destruction does not and can not eradicated evil.

If our analysis of Jesus» death is correct, this event signified a defeat for God by the forces of evil, so much so that God was not able to comfort Jesus in the hour of his deepest need on the cross.

I'm Calvinistic enough to say that if I understand that, then whatever God's purposes are, I know that the evil will only make the eventual glory even greater and therefore evil will be absolutely defeated.

Just as Paul wrote that the Law was given to lead people to Jesus (Gal 3:24), so also, other religions and pagan traditions and ideas about creation and the afterlife and defeating evil were given to lead people to Jesus.

The kingdom of God would come, to be sure, as a consequence of a decisive act of God, for only God could defeat the supernatural powers of evil which opposed his rule and only God could release the tides of spiritual power which would give the new age its character; but the kingdom of God was to be a kingdom within men's hearts and within men's world.

This was a long involved story of how Marduk was elected King of the gods in order to attack and defeat Tiamat the goddess of the watery deep, who was spreading chaos by spawning all sorts of evil creatures.

Redemptive violence is the idea that violence can be used to defeat evil.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

But in the seminar I attended (which was taught by a Pagan High Priestess, by the way...), I noted the belief of a creation, of an ongoing battle between good and evil, and of a coming final last battle, in which humans will join in the fight to defeat and vanquish evil from the universe.

Moreover, Griffin rightly notes, it is Plantinga's contention that to defeat this charge, one need only identify a set of propositions that when conjoined with «A good God exists» entails that «Evil exists,» and that to perform this function, these propositions «clearly... need be neither true, nor probable, nor plausible, nor believed by most theists, nor anything of that sort» (PS 11:26 - 27).

And the problem of evil, he contends, can be defeated by identifying validity or soundness problems or even by appealing to the fact that «experts think it is unsound, or that the experts are evenly divided as to its soundness» (PP 3: 312).

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?

Of all the ways to criticize the Bush government's response to 9/11, refusing to agree with him that the attacks were evil was the most self - defeating.

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

Chick's is a horror - movie gospel, in which a ravenous evil consumes the foolish souls who aren't clever enough to defeat it.

Be the first to seek to bring good; do not grow accustomed to evil but defeat it.»