Sentences with phrase «look upon evil»

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.
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