If
humanity were evil no one would go out of their way to help and care for others.
As it happens, I believe
humanity is evil both from scriptural testimony AND from personal experience.
Just as the number of believers in Allah does not add to the validity of the Allah claim, the number of people, past and present, who believe
humanity is evil, does not make it so.
Therefore, to break God's law is to do evil, to a lesser or greater extent, and because you will return to and enjoy breaking God's law,
humanity is evil.
-- Well, yes, I * do * believe that
humanity is evil because the Bible tells me (as well as the reasons expressed above; trust me, the bible is not my only source).
Well, we can agree (if you agree) that because of the Fall, ALL of
humanity are evil because of concupiscence, and that because of common grace, ALL of humanity is able to do good things.
YOU don't believe that
humanity is evil on the basis your limited experience.
NathanL — «As it happens, I believe
humanity is evil both from scriptural testimony AND from personal experience.»
Likewise, you don't know that
all humanity is evil, even though some people commit acts that are commonly referred to as evil.
You have no knowledge that «
humanity is evil».
What exactly did you observe that helped convince you that
humanity is evil?
Not exact matches
«There
is no room for equivocation here: the
evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should
be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and
humanity,» Dimon added.
Red Skull
is pure
evil - there
's not even a bit of
humanity left in him.
There
is no room for equivocation here: the
evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should
be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and
humanity.»
I
am one of those who think like Nobel, that
humanity will draw more good than
evil from new discoveries.
I
was seven years old, and it
was difficult to grasp the
evil — the lack of
humanity.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence «doesn't have to
be evil to destroy
humanity.»
He emphasizes that these
AIs need not
be programmed as
evil robots to
be capable of destroying
humanity.
The chair of the Business Roundtable
is JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, last seen leaking that he totally wanted to leave the president's business forum after the fact, and thundering that «the
evil on display by these perpetrators of hate... has no place in a country that draws its strength from our diversity and
humanity.»
Creation
is beautiful and good, and
humanity upholds God's image within it; creation
is fallen,
evil, corrupt; creation can
be, and will
be, restored — that triune intuition of Christian faith provides a template of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's questions.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an
evil force from your soul that
is present in
humanity because a woman made from a rib
was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who
was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an
evil force from your soul that
is present in
humanity because a rib - woman
was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.
The aliens
are clearly bad, but it
's the characters, themes of good and
evil, the manipulation of the media and what
humanity really
is that you'll want to return to.
No, it
is humanity collectively, and people individually, that perpetrate
evil on others.
Religious fanatics
are the source of most
evil today, and to use your experiences as some kind of support for worshipping invisible and non-existent deities does a disservice to
humanity.
As creatures created inherently inferior from a male's rib to server males» needs, but who
are evil to core for forcing Original sin on
humanity and forever barring us from Eden.
Remember, Christianity
is the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who
was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an
evil force from your soul that
is present in
humanity because a woman made from a rib
was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
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...!!!
The reality of the depraved
evil in the heart of
humanity was clear.
When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own
humanity, seeing that which we judge «
evil» to
be more prevalent than that which we judge to
be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.
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).
@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of
humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will
be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first
was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the
evil one
is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement
are opened.
«Our front lines
are the mosques from where we repel this
evil with good words meant to serve
humanity,» said Salam al - Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
Our first hopeful objectives as humans
is to decide that Good id better than
Evil and that we want to
be part of one over the other (while
humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we
're still not there yet).
Considering that Jesus
was truly innocent, and
was also God incarnate, the crucifixion
is, without a doubt, by far the most
evil event ever carried out in the history of all
humanity.
And considering that Jesus
was truly innocent, and
was also God incarnate, the crucifixion
is, without a doubt, by far the most
evil event ever carried out in the history of all
humanity.
These
are not pacifistic, meek, and mild responses where we allow ourselves to get trampled on, but
are actually subversive and empowering forms of standing up for our
humanity in the face of dehumanizing
evil.
Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured
humanity, introduced
evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he
's supposed to
be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned
humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth
's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not
being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.
But it
was the Father's will to redeem
humanity from slavery to
evil and eternal corruption, and precisely for the sake of His Son in whom humankind
was created and called to become co-sharers of the Divine Nature.
However, combine this with the irrefutable observation of
humanity that would see human
evil as universal in its scope, and combine this with the fact that the VAST majority of human
beings disagreed with your interpretation of essential human goodness, and the force of the conviction steels itself.
Moreover, although Eastern Orthodoxy takes exception to the doctrine, it STILL maintains the sinfulness of
humanity and would STILL maintain that human
beings are sinful and therefore
evil.
«A Vegetated Christ & a Virgin Eve
are the Hermaphroditic Blasphemy; by his Maternal Birth he
is that
Evil - One And his Maternal
Humanity must
be put off Eternally, Lest the Sexual Generation swallow up Regeneration.
1) Observations on
humanity reveal
evil to
be UNIVERSAL in every direction and in every sphere.
What
is more, God calls
humanity to
be co-workers with God in overcoming
evil, wrong, and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort, and willing response to what we know of God's love and God's purpose for us.
(In fairness, I've met one who denied Original Sin, but this
is not the same as denying
humanity's
evil.)
Anything else would violate my own spiritual confirmations, my own experiences of the Bible's truth and of
humanity's
evil, my own observations of
humanity's
evil, and the observations and myriads of human
beings throughout time.
They believe in a god who
is going to kill / maim and destroy most of
humanity, because they can not reconcile the concept of a god who
is fully capable of accomplishing his will: to
be the saviour of all
humanity, because that would mean accepting the reconciliation of those they consider
evil.
But
humanity is not
evil.
This means that you
are not — by the standards of
humanity, according to the spectrum of what you could do in this life — «as»
evil as Hitler.
Eastern theology acknowledges that there
's something drastically wrong, even
evil, about human
beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it
's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that
humanity may come closer to this vision.