If the horrors of the modern age suggest that
human evil is perhaps even more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human revulsion against such evil.
Human evil is in some sense a rejection of life, that is, a rejection of what makes us truly human beings.31 To be human is to search for the terms on which the self can be itself in relation to every other self.
Niebuhr dismissed them by saying that «the «cultural lag» theory of
human evil is completely irrelevant to the analysis of... sin (NDM 250).»
The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because
human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.
Your reason for not believing in
human evil is your own, limited, finite, subjective experience.
I was using the news headlines (and other similar resources, such as charity reports and the like) to make the valid observation that
human evil is universal in its effect and nature.
-- No disrespect intended, but the story of
human evil is far broader than your 51 years of life, your hurt feelings, your stolen items and your bruised head.
It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of
human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.
Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of
human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.
Not exact matches
We
are nowhere near the apocalyptic scenario in which smart
evil robots turn on
humans, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.
«At least when there
's an
evil dictator, that
human is going to die.
An understanding of good and
evil doesn't just come from religion, it comes from
being human.
I think it
's somewhat plausible to say that god gives us the choice to do
evil, which accounts for
human - made wrongdoing.
a) that the bible
is an imperfect
human representation of gods word b) that the bible
is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible
was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to
be updated d) that a pure message
was corrupted intentionally by
evil humans or spirits
To endorse gay marriage, abortion and distruction of innocent
human life, no matter what color of that child
is unnatural and
evil.
The
human spirit that reaches highs and lows with love and
evil all contained in fleeting moments of heart yet
are timeless.
«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.
I have always interpreted it as telling us that
human beings have baser instincts that can lead them wrongly and make them do
evil things.
Since atheists and agnostics
are just as prone to
human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there *
are *
evil people who
are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «
evil atheists»
are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.
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.
What has Islam learn t??? It
is err to
human, it require
evil intention to repeat it and that too sanctioned by religion.
Sorry, it
is supposed to
be «To err
is human», to repeat it needs
evil inside us or sanction from religion or both.
This
is wonderful, here we have women trying to carry out the teachings of their saviour, you know care for your fellow
human, comfort the sick and needy, feed the hungry and the Pope and his
evil cabal of crooks want to EXCOMMUNICATE them.
True, where
humans are involved, we see a reflection of good and
evil in how we can create Babel towers out of a lot of things.
Pure
evil and pure good
are imagined
human concepts without examples and without proof.
In 2016, he said that God had
been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the
human person at the center,» and declared that inequality
is «the greatest
evil that exists.»
They can't find a DNA link to prove evolution they can't map the last
human DNA the one they say
is mostly
human good and
evil or even the soul.
To read these histories
is to see the
evil of the systematic, the cruelty of impersonal
human ingenuity, and the prison of the Enlightenment's constraining rationality.
Teach people
s - e-xis basically bad /
evil, teach people
s - e-xis only for procreation, teach people anything but unsatisfying missionary position
is unacceptable, deny a deep and fundamental
human drive and let'
s see how that plays out for everyone...
Some of us
are evil because we
are all
humans.
maybe Americans should learn to respect
human being if you know that
evil act will lead to violence and people will get offended why would you do it?
Some would argue that looking at the naked
human body
is not
evil, because God made it beautiful, and Adam and Eve
were naked in the garden.
The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent
human life, as in abortion,
is a grave and intrinsic
evil.
And while conversion may not
be looked upon as
evil to one who
is already converted, it
is most definitely
evil to those who
are told they must convert before they
are considered good
human beings.
It
is a very helpful guide to the formation of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and other political activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic
evil» of taking innocent
human life in abortion.
Hence, for me to refuse to go to Germany under these circumstances would
be tacit assent to the assumption that the Holocaust
was an eruption of such primordial, unintelligible
evil that the
human beings who perpetrated it
were as powerless as its victims.
I can not say when it comes to God to
human rights what
is «
evil».
That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It
is not good for the man to
be alone»
are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the
humans» = > «the serpent
was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the
humans would choose knowledge (and why else
was that tree there)» = > It
was not knowledge but knowledge of good and
evil.
These with Alcohol or drugs
are the key works of the devil... only now when seeing and realizing the
evil it brought among humanity into losing the real meaning of the word «
Human» it self among
Humans...!!!
«Salvation» began to
be taught as an extrinsic juridical transaction rather than an experiential internal transformation and Law rather than Grace [Unconditional kenotic Love] became the solution to coping with
human evil in classical Protestantism.
But the line dividing good and
evil cuts through the heart of every
human being.
The disfunction of
evil forces which block the way to
human fulfillment
is a means of salvation.
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).
The central claim
is made that moral
evil... occurs because God — even though he
is all - good and all - powerful — out of goodness decided to give freedom to
human beings.
Budziszewski insists that such efforts
are self - deceptions, because
human beings can not evade the deepest voice of conscience pronouncing their deeds
evil.
Is Evil alive on Earth in forms that aren't exactly
human?
They
are, therefore, genuinely
evil both from the
human and divine perspectives.
Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual
is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of great
evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it
is truly to respond to the
human condition.
If you
were to base your definitions of «good» and «
evil» on
human society, well, it
's easy to see how people would consider God to
be evil.
The classical response to nonmoral
evil we have
been discussing begins by affirming «C» omnipotence in relation to
humans and then argues that there do exist good reasons to believe that such a moral world would include instances of genuine nonmoral
evil and plausible reasons for assuming that such a world would have the types and amount of genuine nonmoral
evil we presently experience.