Sentences with phrase «greatest evil the world»

Why can we not speak the truth and admit that Islam is perhaps the greatest evil the world has ever known, and act accordingly.

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There are two great evils in this world... religion and politics.

An example of the comments they were referring to was a tweet sent on 1st March 2013 from Dawkins saying «I think Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today.

It is simply false, therefore, to claim that Plantinga must view all evils in the actual world as necessary for bringing about some greater good or avoiding some greater evil.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

Plantinga need only acknowledge that the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.

Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.

I am of opinion this is not when we misjudge a charismatic event and call it evil, for elsewhere, «Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world,» (1 John 4:1), and «For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.»

To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this wWorld,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this worldworld.

But, there is of course a great deal of evil in the world, and if God is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must be responsible for that evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.

Want to know the single greatest evil in the world?

Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

Whereas Pagels discusses second - century theologians who offer alternatives to Augustine's problematic freedom, she ignores the great «heretic» Marcion, who finally concluded that the creator of a world in which there is so much evil is a deeply flawed deity, the very God from whom we must be redeemed.

Secondly, I do not believe that «the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.»

More importantly, I do not believe the actual world «contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free agents» God could have actualized; I see no reason to think there is any such world.

@ToddKincannon I think Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today.

Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render evil in our world terribly real to us.

You can not be possessed by a demon, you can not be controlled by an evil spirit, for greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).

He spoke of the evils of «an economy of exclusion and inequality» and singled out for censure those who «continue to defend trickle - down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world.»

For him, it is not the systematic world of the speculative philosopher that is of greatest value, but the natural, chaotic process which lies hidden behind the falsifying face of reason, a process whose true nature can only be known on a purely aesthetic level through experience in its immediacy («Beyond Good and Evil,» BWN Section 213; «Will to Power,» Section 794).

The celebrated «greatest generation» of World War II produced the architects of Cold War «containment,» who were vindicated almost a half century later with the end of «the evil empire.»

He comments in Religion in the Making, «The fact of evil, interwoven with the texture of the world, shows that in the nature of things there remains effectiveness for degradation... the loss of the greater reality.»

I believe, as do the adventists, that there is great need of commitment to Christ and a personal religion that will give hope in troubled times and withstand the evil, even demonic, forces abroad in our world.

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inEvil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inevil in it?

Don't say, the power of evil, of the wicked world, is great, but we, we are guiltless....

I do believe that there is a force of evil in the world that is greater than the sum of its parts, and that in the normal course of life in the kingdom, real resistance will be encountered.

It is this: that the greatest evils which harass the modern world and which threaten it with destruction are the lineal descendants of the doctrine that man is naturally good.

Bad things happen to Christians; good things happen to those who not only are unbelievers, but who also do great evil in this world.

This is not in the least to suggest that human beings are not responsible for great evil in the world.

They uniformly maintain instead that God may have had to settle for far less than the best and thus that this world may well contain a great deal of genuine evil (GFE 29 - 44).

The relationship of the cross to our salvation, the connection between the suffering of Christ and human suffering, the need for God to become physically entangled in the world's evil and pain — this is too great a mystery for intellectual comprehension.

Cardinal Bourne noted that war was «one of the greatest material evils that the world can see, but our Divine Master has warned us that it is an evil for which we must be prepared».

That's great but, and we're often challenged on this, if there is a God, and if He is so loving, then how come there is so much suffering and evil in this world?

Christian ethics starts from the position that God created the world for good and that war involves great evil, and calls us to a stewardship that enjoys much convergence based on agape as redeeming love, but also significant divergences over the best strategies to establish peace with justice.

Hard though it must have been to say it, the Great Isaiah, facing Zoroastrianism's division of power between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, insisted that the one God alone was the responsible creator of the world, with its light and its darkness, its good and its evil.

(4) In the absence of an explanation why God does not use more coercive power and is not more effective in his persuasion we may as reasonably conclude that there is a great evil persuasive power behind phenomena in the world as that there is a great power persuading toward the good.

Both are important in every person's life — even humanism / atheism is a set of beliefs and morals, both have been used for great good and great evil, thorough understanding and acceptance of both is essential to thriving in today's multicultural world.

This view paints God as a helpless victim of evil, and though He wishes the world were otherwise, His only options are to choose between various evils, and when confronted with the choice, He chooses the greatest evil in a vain attempt to show how terrible evil truly is.

But note that this greater evil is variously identified — by some, as the spread of communism; by others, as the exploitation of the Third World by the capitalist nations.

There was great evil in the world during the time of the flood, much worse than we see in the world now.

The Eternal God, so they maintain, coming in weakness in Christ so provoked the evil in man that the official representatives of as high a religion and of as good a government as the world had known committed the greatest crime in history, the crucifixion of the Son of God.

Although Hasker concludes this argument by pointing out that for it too «it is God who is responsible for the existence of creatures who have the freedom and power to bring about great evils,» I had explicitly said that «God is responsible for [the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet] in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible» (Process 75; cf. God 308 - 09).

But when we look at the world around us, we find prevalent instances of apparently gratuitous evil — pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

How can God «purpose» the greatest evil in the world?

When Marcion, the greatest of the second - century Christian dualists, insisted that the world was so fundamentally evil that the Creator God of the Old Testament, who was responsible for so immense a debacle, could only be a morally defective being, he was not speaking as some disillusioned idealist: rather, he was reflecting the hard, unsentimental realism of his time.

Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a profound faith such as the great religions make possible (and in our own part of the world, that means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination of existence, which is the result of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.

Vintage charts are never perfect — the world of wine is complex, and summaries and short - cuts are a necessary evil, but those who trust in them will miss out on some great wine.

While tribal loyalty towards your club and players is all too common and understandable in the world of football, this episode really doesn't paint Reds fans in a great light as they essentially hurled abuse at a player who'd been the victim of racism — an evil that all fans in the game should be united in wanting to stamp out.