Chick's morality tale (a sort of insipid remake
of Force of Evil except with techno sharks instead of gangsters) is all gloss and pizzazz but mostly pizz and no azz.
When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory
of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.
The impression I was left with was that the best of the forces of good and the worst
of the forces of evil would finally engage in all out war, releasing creatures and demons and angels and monsters into the agonized world ruled by intelligent but wicked men who would overthrow everything and anything that was established.
As if to reiterate the sacrificial nature of the way in which the faithful are to «walk in love,» the writer warns
of the forces of evil ready to deceive Christians with illusions about the fruits of sin.
Not exact matches
Gould once told an interviewer in 1966 that live audiences were a «
force of evil» because pleasing them took precedence over his pursuit
of perfection.
The former host sat for a fluffy interview with The Hollywood Reporter, appeared on Breitbart News last week, saying the «
forces of evil and darkness got me,» and is set to sit down with the «Today» show on Tuesday.
When you cope in a job, it feels like you're having the life
force sucked out
of you by an invisible overlord who laughs like an
evil genius as you visit random websites all day.
But, between your disorganized warehouses and disparate inventory,
evil forces are at play, sucking the life out
of your operations and your team.
It said its motivation «was born out
of the idea
of standing up for transparency and not allowing
evil forces take control
of our lives.»
«All
of the most
evil stuff was me,» Dr. Evil said, including the «space force» Trump recently sugges
evil stuff was me,» Dr.
Evil said, including the «space force» Trump recently sugges
Evil said, including the «space
force» Trump recently suggested.
These bonds are stronger than the
forces of hatred and
evil and these bonds grow even stronger in the hours
of our greatest need.
Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a
force for
evil, but Feinberg's article — which drew potential connections between Trump and the work
of a $ 60,000 - a-pop hair - extension company called Ivari International — still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners
of the Pulitzer Prize.
This idea
of being inherently
evil and never ever good enough and needing external
forces to fix things has held me down for quite a while.
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5 Suppose a man or woman among you, in one
of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done
evil in the sight
of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any
of the
forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.
Chalk another one up to wishful thinking, but what good would it do us to have an all - powerful god hanging around that either couldn't or wouldn't eliminate
evil, be it a separate
force or a dreadful quality
of mankind?
> I know this may hit a nerve but i will pray for you whether you believe in God or not and just know there are things that go bump in the night and there is a
force of evil just as there is a
force of good out there.
Or atleast influenced by some sort
of evil force, bad intention, or selfish desire?
In the parables
of Jesus, birds represented
EVIL FORCES.
He wastes huge amounts
of time on pointless activities, suffers emotional harm under a bizarre worldview that accuses him
of being inherently
evil, and feels
forced to throw away significant amounts
of money to fund the perpetuation
of the belief system his is enslaved by.
After he became Pope, Pius XII did everything in his power to prevent the war from breaking out — issuing appeal after appeal, warning the mass destruction that would ensue — but the
forces of evil would not listen, and war commenced.
The greatest driving
force of evil I can fathom, is the
force that judges in a fog
of xenophobia and demands the slaughter
of all those who will not bend to your will.
When American
Forces bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki they did so not out
of evil, malicious intent, but instead they took in the ENTIRE picture, realizing that in spite
of their horrific brutality many more lives would be spared in the long run.
The disfunction
of evil forces which block the way to human fulfillment is a means
of salvation.
An example
of the comments they were referring to was a tweet sent on 1st March 2013 from Dawkins saying «I think Islam is the greatest
force for
evil in the world today.
Your open minded views (and lack
of faith) allow
evil forces to persuade you to accept what God has never intended to be acceptable.
But
evil rallied their
forced and gained a great ally when they deceived Adam and Eve to hand over the Satan the dominion
of the earth.
That nonviolent movements often disintegrate in despair when they experience the full
force of organized injustice and systemic
evil is clear.
Besides, I'm not physically
forcing my views on anyone... unlike the millions
of killed aborted babies, you can choose whatever you want to do in life... whether if it is good or
evil.
In fact, I claim the church is a power that often gives in to the
forces of evil that the story
of Jesus exposed.
Judging before knowing more how it should be right in Islam, or to know who is out
of the righteous way
of Islam or is being
of Evil Deeds taking Islam as undercover... there are those are the worse Danger to any Religion or Islam within it, more than any others from out side... As they are the worse danger than any Combined
forces put together... They are to their «Nation» as «Termites to Woods»..!!
In the Huntington scenario, Islam is the
force most hostile to U.S. interests — a point
of view that fits well with the «
evil empire» rhetoric and the Antichrist scenarios found among the Christian Zionists.
or, what is the obvious
evil of an individual coming to realize that their attraction to the same gender is natural and the opposite gender...
forced?
It leads from recognition
of the weakness and powerlessness before the
forces of evil and sin to victory over those
forces through the cross and empty tomb.
At baptism, we are anointed with the Holy Spirit so that we may be soldiers
of Christ in the world, so that we may fight the
forces of sin and
evil.
«Practitioners
of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «
evil cults» face long jail terms,
forced denunciations
of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations
of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»
against the powers
of this dark world and against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
As the social
evils multiply and the exploitation
of the lower classes increases, the need for religious morality is recognized and the penal laws
of religion come into
force.
And at the same time the anguish
of some superhuman peril oppressed him, a confused feeling that the
force which had swept down upon him was equivocal, turbid, the combined essence
of all
evil and all goodness.
It could serve as a negative good in the sense
of preventing the spread
of evil force.
But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens
of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on human transformation but on the struggle
of good and
evil forces in the world, a struggle
of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.
Science became a «
force of evil» only after the evidence clearly showed that many
of the biblical stories didn't have any basis in history after all.
Only one
evil force was guilty
of starting the war, only one foul foe committed horrible atrocities, and these men and people had to be utterly crushed and punished.
Deliver us from
evil — both from the
evil that is within each
of us and the
forces of spiritual darkness that twist your good design for maximum hurt and harm.
Throughout the series, we see two
forces of evil.
This self love is sin.God never
forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about
evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies
of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced
of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory
of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow
of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.
But if there is no other way
of preventing the
evil destroying the good, I trust I shall use
force and give myself up to God's hands.»
There are those who are filled with admiration for Christ's demonstrated way
of self - giving love, and
of his personal non-resistance to the
forces of evil.
For example, there are those who are filled with admiration for Christ's demonstrated way
of self - giving love, and
of his personal non-resistance to the
forces of evil.
The dialectics
of idealism denies the reality
of sin and
evil, the demonic and the satanic
forces that penetrate all the structures
of life.
If there are
evil people out there who want to destroy us — and we must admit that Osama bin Laden, at least, has explicitly promised that that is exactly what he wants to do — then any use
of force to put a stop to them is justified.