Sentences with phrase «humans do evil»

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

But that seems to rely too much on human ability to overcome Evil and with our track record that doesn't seem like a good possibility.

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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.

God takes the most evil event in human history, and He redeems it in such a way so that most people today do not even think of it as evil, but as the most holy and righteous event in human history.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

By the deliberate choice of evil, the first generation of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures of body and soul.

Here's what I keep coming back to: The setup of Westworld — throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead of diving into those ideas, we're following this ridiculous «robots are people too!»

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

-- throw humans into a theme park where they can do anything, and they almost invariably do evil — is really compelling, but instead of diving into those ideas, we're following this ridiculous «robots are people too!»

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.

I don't see why you can't just take people as humans who are not perfect, but not intrinsically evil either.

I necessarily had to take a step back and defend my overall worldview, but not for the sake of apologetics, but to explain why I hold to the theology of human evil that I do.

The naive best you can say, Tiggy, from observation alone and not from theology, is that human beings are neither good nor evil, since they do both.

«Good people do good things and evil people do evil things, but for an evil person to do good, you need the Code of Hammurabi», one of the original lists of «commandments» for humans.

I don't believe God views humans as evil.

We observe that no type of human is untouched — mentally unstable people do evil things, mentally sound people do evil things, artists do evil things, laborers do evil things, academics do evil things, business men do evil things.

To completely correct or repair the damage done at the moment in time that the evil deed was done, would take a divine altering of history and the destruction of every human.

You don't KNOW my mind, you don't KNOW that people do just as many good things as bad things, and you don't KNOW that the vast majority of human beings are certainly wrong about human evil.

We observe that there is no sphere of human society that is left untouched — working class, middle class, upper class, all have done, continue to do and will do evil things.

I don't * really * see the relevance in you defending your disbelief, unless you DO N'T believe in human evil BECAUSE you're an unbelieveDO N'T believe in human evil BECAUSE you're an unbeliever?

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

It has been the children of satan who always hav plans so that Christ in their eyes can not come back, and they use stupid plans and blow themelves up, and do all manner of evil, but GOD IS GOD AND NO HUMAN OR SATAN CAN BE VICTORIOUS OVER YHWVH OF ISRAEL.

First, Reformed protestantism — which possesses the theology of «Total Depravity» — DOES N'T say that human beings are as evil as they could be, but rather just that they are evil in all their attributes, so that no aspect of the human condition is left untouched.

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

However, I DO despise sinful human existence, for it is evil.

On the surface, this question does not seem problematical for even humans can know opposites such as pleasure and pain or good and evil within the same instant.

Does this new finding prove an invisible, all powerful, magic man who lives in the sky had an evil talking snake tempt a woman, made from a rib, to disobey him, whereby he put a curse on all future humanity, then later changed his mind and decides to lift his curse by impregnating a human woman with himself and having himself tortured, killed, and raised from the dead, so that if you believe all that, you get to live forever in heaven after you die, but if you don't, he will torture you forever in hell?

10:25 - 26 that was the greatest evil any human being could possiblly do to another person.

many religious people are not Christians, and even Christians who are still only human get distracted by the flesh and do stupid or you could say evil things.

So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.

Just because evil is always relative does not mean we as humans can not see ourselves in others and share that with them, letting them know we can relate, that we feel the relative evil as well and attempt to support those in harms way by saying «I am you too, i'm on your side.»

Religion however has tried to supersede our humanity and tell us it's okay to kill those other humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God as you, they don't have the same hope for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that is the true face of evil on the planet, the one that tries to make you forget your humanity with bribes and extortion.

The brainwashing from birth to take bronze age myths as truth and demonize those who don't as «evil communist atheists» has to stop before we humans finally emerge from the dark ages.

I don't know why humans want to pretend they aren't the cause of all evil, because they are.

then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

It is a view that takes authority to be a positive good rather than a necessary evil alone and in so doing preserves a truth about human nature and society that stands in danger of loss.

All you who will hold out to the end with our holy church please do nt listen to these hell bound haters of christianity.It is evil tryin to destroy our church.Remember our church leaders are human and are sometimes weak to temptation.Dont bash a whole religion cause a few fall!

I am not convinced that this objectification of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity of the human individual or to the dynamic of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.

Don't let the the evil that flawed human beings have done harden your heart.

Its leaders did not believe that the society they were building was the Kingdom of God, but they did believe that human obedience to God could usher in a world in which many of the present social evils would be overcome.

Both of these approaches negate our responsibility for our own actions and ignore the reality of human will and our ability to do good or evil.