It has been told to me that God can not
look upon evil, so why does the beginning of the book of Job portray God and satan conversing?
It is customary nowadays to
look upon evil as either the absence of good through ignorance or fear, or else as something which manifests itself through maladjustment of personality.
On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of
looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.
Instead, it seems that what Habakkuk is saying is that God, by not seeming to do anything about evil, appears to be
looking upon evil with approval.
Not exact matches
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.
In this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can
look upon sin and
evil.
But watch, lest any of you
look with disdain
upon the children of Abraham because they have fallen on these
evil days of traditional barrenness.
Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul,
look upon sin as an enveloping state of
evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.
There is noone more
evil than the one who considers himself superior and
looking down
upon others.
Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold
evil, and that canst not
look on perverseness, wherefore
lookest thou
upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he?
Obviously, if God can not
look upon sin or
evil then God should not have been able to
look upon satan, or even allow satan to enter His presence.
Look at it this way: To say that God can not look upon sin or be in the presence of evil is to deny that Jesus was fully
Look at it this way: To say that God can not
look upon sin or be in the presence of evil is to deny that Jesus was fully
look upon sin or be in the presence of
evil is to deny that Jesus was fully God.
This idea that God can not
look upon sin or see
evil probably comes from Habakkuk 1:13.
Regarding this question of whether or not God can
look upon sin or be near
evil, I wrote this:
The ball never got to Eduardo, Rosicky and Nasri together didn't quite
look right, and because of previous
evils done
upon our team Denilson, Vela and Theo were not quite ready.
Fat is often
looked upon as this
evil thing that you should avoid like the flu.
I joked that I felt like Cinderella in it, but I feel like I
look more like Snow White's
Evil Queen from that show, Once
Upon a Time.
He's a tall, good -
looking, sensitive intellectual who is called
upon to wrestle leopards, battle corpses, confront an
evil voodoo leader and eventually be buried alive along with a deadly spider that makes itself cozy on his paralyzed eyeball.
But we are sorry... to consider Mr. Pratt's writings as «purely
evil»... we should really
look upon this author's departure from the world of literature as a good riddance of bad rubbish.
Capcom is descending
upon New York Comic Con 2016 this weekend with terrifying horrors in VR for Resident
Evil 7, zombie slaying madness in Dead Rising 4, and frightening new
looks for iconic fighters in Street Fighter V. Visit Capcom at booth # 1420 to check out playable demos of these exciting games.
It
looks to me that Capcom have taken the Resident
Evil 5 style and worked
upon it, while simultaneously trying to put lots of fan - service into the mix.
League of
Evil was originally released in 2011 on iOS, and was favourably
looked upon by critics, achieving a score of 86 on Metacritic.
Everywhere you
look, the misery that rising temperatures (and the associated
evils) will supposedly heap
upon us seems to dominate reports about the coming climate.
Lawyers trying to get a foothold into their particular market often
looked upon lawyer advertising as a necessary
evil.