The world and man are creations of God, and hence not evil by nature; they have been corrupted by sin, and sin is not a condition of nature but
the evil will of man.
The real evil in the world, then, is
the evil will of men.
Not exact matches
In another, a scruffy bearded
man peers through a set
of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation
of the
evil deeds he
will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.
But some accustomed to the
evils of men legal systems,
will continue to think that God owes them something.
16The LORD God commanded the
man, saying, «From any tree
of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the tree
of the knowledge
of good and
evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you
will surely die.»
Mercy is not the Enlightenment's narrow notion
of a cancellation
of deserved punishment but is rather a
will to «[promote] and [draw] good from all the forms
of evil existing in the world and in
man.»
This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full
of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how
evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they
evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way
of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women,
men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock
of B.S. if I ever heard it.They
will continus to use GOD and continue their
EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they
EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
AND then, after God / Jesus kills all
of the people due to the evilness, he says he
will never kill All again because
man is
evil!!!!!
@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.
Genesis 2:16 - 17 And the Lord God commanded the
man, «You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree
of the knowledge
of good and
evil, for when you eat
of it you
will surely die.»
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).
PS, I
'll believe the loving part
of the bible when God admits it was
evil that he ordered Moses to kill
men and children, keeping the virgins to ra - pe.
Vic: «God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, rather, as God is Omniscient, He knew beforehand what
man will do at «Free Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the evil doing of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross † into Salvation for humankind.&ra
will do at «Free
Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the evil doing of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross † into Salvation for humankind.&ra
Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the
evil doing
of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross † into Salvation for humankind.»
When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion
will preserve you, understanding
will keep you to deliver you from the way
of evil, from the
man who speaks perverse things Proverbs 2:10 - 12.
The
will of Man is by nature sinful & selfish and easily vulnerable to the influence
of Satan which is corrupt and
evil.
After a few seconds
of silence he recovered and said that the Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, a frequent sight at Fenway [home
of the Boston Red Sox] and a
man whose baseball passions are properly ordered, says that when he gets to heaven, as he hopes to do, he
will ask God two questions: why did he allow
evil and why did he favour the Yankees?
Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and
will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create
man in His image with free
will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose
of destroying
evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free
will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
God, through Adam, gave
man the knowledge
of good and
evil and the free will to either accept the good (God / righteousness) or (Evil / unrighteousne
evil and the free
will to either accept the good (God / righteousness) or (
Evil / unrighteousne
Evil / unrighteousness).
There
will be tribulation and distress for every soul
of man who does
evil,
of the Jew first and also
of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
In the eyes
of Islam a
man chooses either good or
evil by his own free
will and is rewarded or punished according to his deeds.
Now
man lost his immortality when he gain the knowledge
of both good and
evil, that's why the serpent said, you shall not surely die, however you
will be like gods, knowing both good and
evil.
Nothing close
will ever happen until God steps back into history and brings His kingdom about where the foolishness
of man and
evil will be punished and everyone
will know the truth.
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic
of the life
of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (
of course, within the permissive
will of God) by
evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement
of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those
men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
«A
man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips
of his life,
will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it
evil?
Much as we may dislike the doctrine
of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any
man of sense and good
will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds
of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest
of the miserable host
of evil.
Four other distinctively Matthaean expressions appear in the explanations
of the parables
of the weeds and the dragnet: «the sons
of the kingdom»; «the sons
of the
evil one»; «the furnace
of fire»; and «there
men will weep and gnash their teeth.»
God can take even the
evil intention
of man and convert it to good, if he so
wills.
Jesus told us in Mark 7:14 - 23 what
will defile the
man, not things that you take into the body, but the things that come from within, out
of the heart,
evil things such as hate for others around us, prejudice, unforgiveness, meanness, pride, lying, wanting to have what belongs to others, all those unloving things that come from out
of the heart.
Because according to this same book, in these times
of evil (and even the most positive - minded atheist should know something is WRONG with our environment)
men will distort the teachings for their own gain.
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day
of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment
of God; 6 Who
will render to every
man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul
of man that doeth
evil,
of the Jew first, and also
of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)
With the power
of God we
will silence these
evil men and women.
It
will be like a resurrection
of dead
men's bones.9 The calamities the nation suffered dramatized, as it were, the just judgment
of Almighty God upon their
evil courses; but within the judgment lay the mercy
of God, with power to create anew; and that was why, beyond all hope, the nation revived.
Tom From my perspective there would be no he -
ll if
man did not touch the tree
of knowledge
of good and
evil.
But the deliberate and carefully planned extermination
of six million Jews in Europe moves us to anger, for it strikes us as an
evil which is quite literally demonic, just because the responsibility for it lies in the
will of man himself.
«But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you... Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward
will be great, and you
will be sons
of the Most High, for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and
evil men.
«7 Case does not quite say the complete eradication
of evil will ever be accomplished but still «the accumulations
of the years mount ever upward toward the goal
of the good
man's desire.
But it is equally true that if societies are oriented toward
evil ends and
men are influenced by ideologies and customary patterns
of behavior, then individual goals
will gain an
evil tone.
God's
willing evil from
man's point
of view could only mean (in Whitehead's system) that
man was unwilling to realize a growth in value experience.
O Lord, when I shall come with glory in your kingdom, do not remember only the
men of good
will; remember also the
men of evil.
Looking at America and the race problem he says: «America can demonstrate that justice, equality, and cooperation are possible between white and colored people «21 Mr. Wright makes the important point that the belief in the inevitability
of a great
evil, such as war,
will itself contribute to
man s inability to deal with that
evil.
«1 Paul, an apostle — sent not from
men nor by a
man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — 2 and all the brothers and sisters1 with me, To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present
evil age, according to the
will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Jesus does not recognize any
evil nature; he regards as
evil only the
evil will of the disobedient
man.
The human
will is simply in no way independent
of God's all - embracing providential causality.47 «As far as
men are concerned, whether they are good or
evil, the heart
of the Christian
will know that their plans,
wills, efforts, and abilities are under God's hand; that it is within his choice to bend them whither he pleases and to constrain them whenever he pleases.»
9 By this logic the grossest
evils have been committed by
men who felt no responsibility for what they did because they acted in duty - bound conformity to «the
will of God».
Few
will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning
of sin in human life — the reality
of moral
evil, the universal blight it brings,
man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.
Taking as his text, «Speak
evil of no
man» (Titus 3:2), Tillotson goes on interestingly enough about the sins
of gossip and slander, and concludes with this: «I foresee what
will be said, because I have heard it so often said in the like case, that there is not a word
of Jesus Christ in all this.
ALL
of us
will die a physical death... God judged the
men and women who were
evil..
But when the pastor is
willing to face adversity for truth's sake, then even
evils of long standing can be wiped away.33 Gregory illustrated the hunger for preeminence by reference to both Saul and David: Saul was a good
man until he achieved power (1 Kgs.
I see the beauty and the
evil of men (that
men do, not attribute to some unknown deity) and I know we
will continue, I see this in our children.
Now God had every right to wipe mankind clean off the face
of this planet because
of how
evil and rebellious we are but instead He loved us so much that He took off His godly attributes, became flesh and lived among us as a
man and his
will was the Father's
will.