His judgment upon that evil out of context confuses those that do not know the scriptures in context.
Not exact matches
A crucial
judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize
upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears
evil to so many sensitive critics.
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish,
upon every soul of man that doeth
evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)
It will be like a resurrection of dead men's bones.9 The calamities the nation suffered dramatized, as it were, the just
judgment of Almighty God
upon their
evil courses; but within the
judgment lay the mercy of God, with power to create anew; and that was why, beyond all hope, the nation revived.
In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent
judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and
evil in human individuals and institutions.
This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation
upon good and
evil, grace and
judgment.