It's impossible to complete that task because we aren't perfect,
our hearts are evil, maybe not all the time, but never always good.
After the great flood, God promised Noah never again to curse the earth, but God's reason was wonderfully arch: «For the imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth» (Gen. 8:21).
Afterwards, He decides He won't kill everything again, because man's
heart is evil from his youth.
«For the imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth» (Gen. 8:21).
Evil and wickedness «every inclination of the thoughts of man's
heart was evil all the time» How bad was it — «God grieved it was painful».
Jeremy am not sure about it, but I believe Cain's
heart was evil before his sacrifice I think there was something there in his heart against his brother before his sacrifice.
After the flood, mankind is described in similar fashion: «the imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth» (Genesis 8:21).
Do you really want to teach your children that
their heart is evil?
Not exact matches
So the next time you go over your paystub and see how far your gross pay has
been adjusted to your take - home amount, take
heart that it
's probably the lesser of all
evils, even if it doesn't feel like it.
I would think it would tough to have their
hearts in the right place given they've
been taught their entire lives to believe in the teachings of an
evil man.
(NASB) Hebrews 3:12 — 14 — Take care, brothers, lest there
be in any of you an
evil, unbelieving
heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
The human spirit that reaches highs and lows with love and
evil all contained in fleeting moments of
heart yet
are timeless.
Mankind has made many blunders and Christians have
been at the
heart of many of those, yet true adherance to Christ has softened the harshness of the
evil you may not wish to admit exists.
«We must never forget that the
evil comes not from the actions of «subhuman vermin» but from the
heart of a fallen, sacred yet degraded, human
being,» I wrote.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of
being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of
being born in the first place because it
's a well - known scriptural fact that every human
is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a
heart that does nothing but desire
evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with
being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.
It
's not the same point you
are making, but I see it a little differently - to me the demon represents
evil and chaos and pain and lies that attack our
hearts and minds.
«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.
Mat 24:48 But if that
evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord tarrieth; Mat 24:49 and shall begin to beat his fellow - servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; Mat 24:50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, Mat 24:51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall
be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
It
is a word used for reprobates that do not heed the Spirit when it calls them, it does not listen when the Spirit speaks to
heart on the
evil they
are doing, it
is the callous
heart that
is so hard and fast in
evil it has closed itself to the Spirit.
«And they said, There
is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his
evil heart.»
The reality of the depraved
evil in the
heart of humanity
was clear.
But the line dividing good and
evil cuts through the
heart of every human
being.
tallulah — and that
's because men with
evil hearts do not have the Spirit of God to guide them in what He
is really saying.
You know... people
are crazy, and they'll twist scriptures into meaning whatever it
is they want it to mean to do the
evil that
was already on their
heart.
And our
hearts come to
be able to say, «You meant it for
evil, but God meant it for good.»
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.
Humanity becomes such a good ally in the war against God, that «every intent of the thoughts of his
heart was only
evil continually» (Gen 6:5).
Even
hearts that
are filled with goodness can do
evil but then repent knowing right from wrong.
Anyone who deceives people into believing in a demon
is not only morally wrong but
evil in their
heart as well.
Take care, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an
evil, unbelieving
heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
That
was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently
been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear
's when I hallucinate it
's likes they
are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they
are trying to get me just as they
are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there
's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they
are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they
are saying the only way I can explain it
is emotions comfort joy love
is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't
evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I
'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look
evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I»
am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it
's time for change I've lost my faith I've
been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I
am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my
heart of
hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it
's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to
be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I
'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I
'm up for the challenge like I said I
'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I
'm going to hang around for a wee while there
's lots of good information to
be plundered loll
I know mine to know that I, too, and a wretch with an
evil heart, and I fully expect that her's
is not much different.
All have sinned; all
are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit;
evil behaviors come from within the
heart rather than from the outside; good deeds
are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.
However, God
is not the author of sin and only the wicked and
evil heart blame Him for the
evil in the world.
Suffice it to say that implicit in the novel's conclusion
is the understanding of confession articulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which declares that «Interior repentance
is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a conversion to God with all our
heart, an end of sin, a turning away from
evil, with repugnance toward the
evil actions we have committed.»
These «failed attempts to act on behalf of God» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232)
were done with
evil in our
hearts and the name of God on our lips, and thus reveal to us not so much of what
is in the
heart of God, but what
is in the
heart of men.
It reveals that
evil is in our human
hearts.
Anything less in this fallen world
is merely vain speculation and a pipe dream because like it or not there
is real
evil in the
heart and mind of man and it permeates everything around us — even in the church.
Please open your
hearts and look around you, another school shooting today -
evil is real.
The synod agreed that the
evils responsible for the recent catastrophes
were such things as pride in
heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.
The most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time)
is Psalm 139, «search me
heart and thoughts, fin out if there
is any
evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my
heart, God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine
is highly uncomfortable) the result
is so worth it.thanks for this post.
Yet, the question of a just sentence for
evil man
is still on all of our
hearts.
Their
hearts still contain the
evil that they
were born with, even after they become believers.
In one sense, Jesus» ethic
was so demanding as to break the
hearts of all who would follow him: Sell all you have and give to the poor, resist not one who
is evil, love your enemy, take no heed for the morrow.
One
is told that his life already approximates in pattern to what God
is wanting him to
be; but another may
be told bluntly that despite all his religious profession he
is at
heart a «child of
evil.»
In The
Heart of Man and subsequently in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness he rejects both sentimental optimism and the view that human
beings are inherently
evil.
They
were stupid and
evil and should never have
been in my
heart in the first place.
People
are becoming more and more
evil, warped in their
hearts and minds, and so unlike human
beings, yet more resembling beasts, without a conscience....
At the
heart of the issue
was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and
evil.
If councilors helped alcoholics the same way they would
be telling them» it
is not your fault it
was that
evil bottle, it seduced you» This guy should not
be trying to help pedophiles in his
heart he
is one!