Sentences with phrase «meant evil against»

You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive.»

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

It is a tension precisely articulated later in the Joseph narrative when Joseph, reunited with his treacherous brothers, declares, «You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good» (50:20)

Not exact matches

I think the most common conception of what is happening here is that the «mean men of the Vatican» are doing evil against the «poor old ladies» of the LCWR.

@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.

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

Language about the Warrior Lord means that there is a force in the universe set against the forces of evil.

This word ברא, Barah which means «to finish,» was mistranslated as «create» by the devil's followers, so that they could deceive People to falsely believe that the devil who creates Darkness and Evil is Yahweh, which is blasphemy against Holy Spirit Yahweh, to falsely claim that Yahweh created Darkness and Evil.

The Bible is not meant as a weapon against men, only a weapon against evil.

«The killing of an unborn child through abortion via abortifacients or any other means is an intrinsic evil, a sin that goes against God's plan for our salvation.

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

Perhaps, because sin normally means sin against God, he should have talked about a doctrine of evil.

«The contemporary pope - hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human - centred way - as the great atheists of old such as Marx or Darwin might have done - and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the «evil» of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith.

These various statements of the limiting criteria differ from one another, and Ignatieff's readers must figure out for themselves where they come from, why these criteria and not others should be employed, and what it might mean in practice to design defenses against terror that involve evil actions whose punishment may be mitigated by the extreme circumstances.

The group established that, Kofi Jumah and Amoako Tufuor were the pioneers who raised alarm against the choice of Akufo - Addo by means of peddling horrible insults against Akufo - Addo to the public «We wish to tell Akufo - Addo and his rented clowns that, if they have monopoly over reckless conducts and plotting of evil, we have fair reasoning and common sense.

Addressing a press conference today [Tuesday], the Spokesperson of Nana Akufo - Addo, Mustapha Hamid, reminded fellow sceptics of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that «President Mahama and his people have not relented in their evil ways and means to use our own people to work against the NPP.»

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

I don't mean for it to be, and I hope I will never come off as an author who rails against the evils of traditional publishing.

Yes, because as we all know if you don't go with the group and hate on those big bad evil companies, that surely must mean I can not stand any kind of criticism against that company.

I mean here we are again good against evil on an infinity of unique planets, once again pitted against each other for God's entertainment an infinity number of times.