Sentences with phrase «of evil creatures»

She uses these powers to protect the weak, defend her cities, and combat a race of evil creatures known as Nevi.

Dungeon Keeper will give you control over a variety of evil creatures.

With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.

This was a long involved story of how Marduk was elected King of the gods in order to attack and defeat Tiamat the goddess of the watery deep, who was spreading chaos by spawning all sorts of evil creatures.

But because of an evil creature, it is now shattered into thousands of pieces.

Not exact matches

Being willing to deal with them as you would an evil, blood - sucking creature of the dark is the second step in freeing yourself from them.

We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.

So what is it about you that makes you see yourself as a lowly worm, as a sinning evil creature in need of saving from something, as someone who needs a deity to make all the rules for their lives?

844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

(6) God can not make a person (P) significantly free with respect to an action (A) and yet causally determine or bring it about that P go right with respect to A — i.e., to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

By the deliberate choice of evil, the first generation of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures of body and soul.

But being omnibeneficent, all good, God does not seek to bring about evil but the good of each creature.

None of the other creatures on our planet have the capacity for evil that mankind have.

How is anything I've ever done in my life so evil as to make me a disgusting, vile creature with no hope of redemption without being covered in the blood of an innocent?

Out of the anxiety of creatures capable of such abysmal self - knowledge as we can and often do acquire, much evil and wickedness emerges.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

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.

The uniquely Judaeo - Christian approach is that evil is secondary to goodness, emerging from the abuse of goodness by free creatures.

Ogden, for example, tells us that «God is not neutral or indifferent to creaturely conflict but always sides with what makes for the good of his creatures as against all that makes for evil» (FF 94).

He has created this world of creatures with their particular powers, and has created them good.9 Niebuhr therefore says explicity: «Power is not evil of itself.

Then John Hick's solution is incorrect: «We have... found it to be an inescapable conclusion that the ultimate responsibility for the existence of sinful creatures and of the evils which they cause and suffer, rests upon God himself.

In EverQuest, one of the most popular multiplayer role - playing games, players create their own characters, go on quests, solve puzzles and kill evil creatures.

It affirms that there is no recalcitrant evil external to man and the other creatures out of which the world must be made.

The free decisions of creatures for evil and good become the destiny of other creatures and of God.

According to Murdoch, the thoughtful modern person can no longer conceive of men and women as rational creatures who are slowly expunging evil from their midst; instead, it is necessary to think of human beings as «benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.»

«He is the Whole in every categorial sense, all actuality in one individual actuality, and all possibility in one individual potentiality «47 Panentheism thus differs from traditional theism by asserting that all the world is entirely inside God instead of outside him; and it diverges from pantheism by insisting that the creatures which are all in God nevertheless have a measure of genuine freedom, independence, and even capacity for evil.

As Christian documents so well, God's initial conformal feelings are perfect, re-enacting the same feeling with all of the intimacy and poignancy that the creature felt, without any loss or distortion.16 Here God is completely vulnerable, completely open to all the evil and the tragedy that the world has seen.

In their flirtation with pacifism, liberal Christians are squeamish even about spiritual combat, in part because they're ashamed to believe in spirits, the order of creatures to which evil spirits belong.

My own view is that the death of God's Christ is in part God's atonement to his creatures for evil.

Exploring his huge house, they discover that the back of a wardrobe opens into a mystical realm called Narnia, where they encounter all sorts of strange creatures, good and evil, principally an enslaving White Witch and a redeeming Christlike lion named Aslan.

The actual source of evil is within the free will of God's creatures (humans and angels), and since these were gifts of God to His good creation, when these gifts were misused and abused to do things contrary to God's will, evil resulted.

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

Following Aslan's resurrection, C. S. Lewis has Aslan, Susan, and Lucy race off to the castle of the White Witch, where they «thaw» out all the creatures of Narnia who had been turned to stone, and then return with this army of creatures to help Peter, Edmund, and the Narnians defeat the Witch Jadis and her evil army.

Hartshorne holds that suffering or evil is the result of inevitable conflicts between creatures (CSPM 237f; see also AMV 311f).

Oh and don't forget all of the innocent animals God killed during The Flood... as if the poor creatures were evil sinners... except of course for the dinosaurs... for some reason Noah didn't want any dinosaurs in his ark; that's why we don't see any dinosaurs roaming around any more.

The issue, in sum, is not whether an omnipotent deity's deception of its self - conscious creatures would be morally problematic but only whether such deception, if necessary in order to have a world with all the positive values of the present one but without its horrendous evils, would be justified as the lesser of evils.

In God, Power, and Evil in response to the traditional question as to why God created free beings, I said: «Of course, in process thought all actualities have some freedom, so that question has to be modified to ask, Why did God bring forth creatures with high degrees of freedom?&raquOf course, in process thought all actualities have some freedom, so that question has to be modified to ask, Why did God bring forth creatures with high degrees of freedom?&raquof freedom?»

Although Hasker concludes this argument by pointing out that for it too «it is God who is responsible for the existence of creatures who have the freedom and power to bring about great evils,» I had explicitly said that «God is responsible for [the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet] in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible» (Process 75; cf. God 308 - 09).

Evil, said Spinoza, exists only from the viewpoint of a finite creature who has the «illusion» of separate existence.

So the problem of evil, it turns out, is based on the misapprehension that God could monopolize decision - making and still have creatures.

For where there is confusion or inconsistency in that concept, there is correlative difficulty regarding what it means to be a creature.27 If a creature could escape all evil, and indeed even its possibility, and escape it because God's perfect power and goodness would prevent anything undesirable from occurring, then the very conceivability of evil would render theism absurd.

In the 1950's it was popular scientific thinking that babies were delicate little creatures who needed to be protected from evil bacteria (the doc's had yet to realize our life utterly depends on being chock FULL of bacteria!)

Unless you're some type of super-human creature with a central nervous system made of steel, the evil of excitotoxins will catch up to you.

This children's series follows the adventures of the Smurfs, little blue creatures who live in a peaceful village and try to outwit the evil Gargamel.

These creatures are the stuff of legend... Dragons, giant toads, sea monsters, and even evil luchadores.

A pervasive sense of evil looms over the land as people struggle to survive and rumors circulate of vile, demonic creatures that

A pervasive sense of evil looms over the land as people struggle to survive and rumors circulate of vile, demonic creatures that roam the cities to claim any souls still living.

Of course these battles between good and evil forces include magical weapons use, hand - to - hand conflict, fire - breathing creatures, explosions and falls from great heights.

Good thing evil CEO Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman: Stolen, Rock of Ages) built in some genes that make the transformed creatures respond to a radio signal, and that she just happens to have access to the transmitter atop the Sears Tower in Chicago to send out the call and bring the monsters right there and somehow collect genetic samples from them.