Not exact matches
Most people turn away from
God, and do the
evil within themselves.
If Adolf Hitler (The
most evil man in modern history) had, in his last moments, turned to JC, begged forgiveness for all his sins in genuine repentance and found
God, is he or is he not in heaven?
King's concept of good and
evil and Faith in
God, are what have led him to be the
most printed, and read author in history.
You said, «To tell people they are ok before
God when they aren't is about the
most evil thing one could do.»
Indeed
most ancient jews saw the devil not as an incarnation of
evil but as
god's prosecutor.
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.
Considering that Jesus was truly innocent, and was also
God incarnate, the crucifixion is, without a doubt, by far the
most evil event ever carried out in the history of all humanity.
And considering that Jesus was truly innocent, and was also
God incarnate, the crucifixion is, without a doubt, by far the
most evil event ever carried out in the history of all humanity.
The radical message of the
God of the Bible is
most clearly seen in the cross which tells us two things: 1) We are worse off than we want to admit (the
evil * we have done * means we ALL deserve to die — who killed Jesus?
I know my theory about
evil and the violence of
God is new to
most, but it is not new to me.
The
most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time) is Psalm 139, «search me heart and thoughts, fin out if there is any
evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my heart,
God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine is highly uncomfortable) the result is so worth it.thanks for this post.
Lem me see here, according to your holy book your
God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced
evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw
most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.
Another reason, maybe the
most numerous, is some variation to the problem if
evil; good
God, all powerful
God,
evil happened to me or someone I love and
God and
God did not come through, so I bagged on
God.
these people are
evil and i would say
most of them, a lot of them don't even believe in
God they just do it for the money or whatever.
Think of it, no judgement for the millions of people who live their lives without perpetrating major
evils, yet would be sure to be found wanting by the
God (s) of
most religions.
They believe in a
god who is going to kill / maim and destroy
most of humanity, because they can not reconcile the concept of a
god who is fully capable of accomplishing his will: to be the saviour of all humanity, because that would mean accepting the reconciliation of those they consider
evil.
These people can say what they want, treat others in the
most despicable, cruel and out right
evil ways, and their supporters, (friends and other leaders) will justify the wrong doing without any regard to the word of
God.
Whoever therefore rejects the forces of
evil and believes in
God, he has taken hold of a support
most unfailing, which shall never give way, for
God is All Hearing and Knowing.
Of course;
God's hatred, as I argued in my article, is very limited, «directed only at the
most evil and unrepentant.»
And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian
god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his
most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true
God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the
evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer
He may believe in
God, believe that
God is both good and powerful, and believe that
God has a reason for permitting
evil — a reason for each specific
evil; but he may have nothing but the
most general idea as to why
God permits these
evils.
God describes him as the
most evil King (1 kings 16:30) and yet
God uses him to win victory for Israel to show his Glory.
At all times in Israel people spoke much about
evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in
God's stead; never, not even in the
most deadly act of requital by
God, is the bond of immediacy broken.
Left on our own, we are, in
most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically
evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in
God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.
Most, perhaps all, cultures and religious traditions have some version of the problem of
evil, but as C. S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, this problem becomes scandalous in Christianity, which traditionally has held that the universe is governed by a loving and omnipotent
God.
The
most overlooked, avoided and denied attribute of
God is His hatred of
evil people.
Most frequently, there is inertial preservation, with only minor modifications of what is neither wholly good nor wholly
evil, neither totally conformed to
God's aims nor totally athwart them.
You say
evil exists because
god gave us free will, but
most of the
evil that occurs (disease, natural disasters, etc....) has nothing to do with humanities collective will, it's just nature.
Considering
most natural events were attributed to
god, its not hard to connect the dots that if a giant flood comes that kills large amounts of people, the people who survived said
god /
gods sent it and the people who lived were the
most pious and the people who died were
evil.
Most tellingly, the radically free
God of covenant, the divine warrior who opposes chaotic evil wherever it appears, was replaced by a domesticated god who was little more than a nationalistic yes - m
God of covenant, the divine warrior who opposes chaotic
evil wherever it appears, was replaced by a domesticated
god who was little more than a nationalistic yes - m
god who was little more than a nationalistic yes - man.
The religious understanding of the conflict between good and
evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of
God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to
most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.
One of the theological issues that troubles Protestants
most is the question of why a loving
God would allow
evil, especially anything «bad» that happens to their family members or friends.
The two
most basic ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself
evil, and secondly that redemption must come from
God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30
He was a man after
God's own heart BEFORE he repented, being an adulterer and a murderer, since the
God of the Bible is the
most vicious wicked murderer imaginable, and I don't recall him being married to Mary when he went behind Joseph's back and knocked her up... but, at least he repented for the
evil he'd done, something
God would never do.
The
evil that will overwhelm humanity — Armageddon, the Tribulation — is
God - determined, as is the murder of
most Jews and Gentiles.
You slough off all your responsibilities to your sky
god who just forgives anything the
most evil criminal asks it to.
Sin, as self - centeredness with regard to both
God and other persons, is man's
most persistent
evil.
Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in
God,
most notably the Problem of
Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil in
Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing
God produce a world with so much
evil in
evil in it?
The Bible is the
most honest book, people are
evil,
God is the only good.
I don't believe in organized religion or Jesus but I do believe in
God and good and
evil and the
most evil and dangerous people ever to walk the earth, are Democrats!
Emilio, agreed,
God desires to bring
evil to an end... but what
most of us so quickly jump to assume when we hear / read «by His wrath and power», I believe will be by His power all right.
Moreover, Griffin rightly notes, it is Plantinga's contention that to defeat this charge, one need only identify a set of propositions that when conjoined with «A good
God exists» entails that «
Evil exists,» and that to perform this function, these propositions «clearly... need be neither true, nor probable, nor plausible, nor believed by
most theists, nor anything of that sort» (PS 11:26 - 27).
Even in our own standards Hitler is known as the
most evil man that has ever existed, yet
God is accused of even worse crimes.
Tough question but in
most cases
evil men are running those countries we are at odds with and allowing them to have power would not be in the best interest of
God loving people on this earth.
Accordingly, since it is always possible for such freedom to be used in less than the
most appropriate manner, process theists deny that
God could unilaterally have produced a world with no
evil.
Thus, as
most FWTs see it, the relevant question is which of the following pictures of
God is
most appealing: (1) a
God who creates individuals who only think they are free but are actually controlled by
God and thus produce no
evil or (2) a
God who bestows actual freedom on individuals even though such freedom may produce (has produced) much
evil along with much good.
First, until quite recently,
most of the influential analytic philosophers of religion challenging
God's existence in the face of
evil had posed the problem as a strictly logical one, and thus Plantinga and other analytic philosophers of religion can hardly be criticized justly for having expended a great deal of effort in response.
As Søren Kierkegaard noted in perhaps his
most influential book, Fear and Trembling, if the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son means anything it must signify that
God transcends the categories (or at least our categories) of good and
evil and that to follow the way of the Lord will eventually, at least for some select chosen ones, mean to renounce those norms.
The only one who can not is Lucifer because he do not want to,
God heart is not made of iron, if there are
evil people alive in this world it is only because
God want them to repent to, there are
most evil people who as a children or teenager was sweet but because of another being became
evil, Only
God know what it did make them change or their pain but only one things is sure as
God he did have the first seat to see all their pain and live, and to my point of view as a Father it is by no means lesser than the pain he did feel for them or them victimes, like a electric chair.
While
evil is not radical, if by that is intended «at the root of things» — for it can not be, if
God is love and is Himself «at the root of things» through His creativity at work in them — it is
most certainly not to be dismissed or minimized or talked away.