The opposing forces of evil may or may not affect the actual World War II reality from which our trio of young British protagonists temporarily escape.
Like Stephen and like Jesus, Thomas went to his death
opposing the forces of evil not with power but with faithfulness.
Not exact matches
With an «everything» deity you have
opposing forces... good /
evil, hatred / love etc etc, to me, this would make it impossible for said deity to do anything, it would create as fast as it destroyed, it would love you one second and then hate you before the thought
of love was completed.An everything style deity would have no compulsion to create simply because it is «everything», it needs no justification, no worship.
Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools
of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon
of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by
force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the
force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or
force a more powerful one that being the Love
of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can
oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.
And Jewish teaching on this subject is extremely ambiguous; unlike some Christian doctrines, Judaism tends to deny
evil as a
force independent
of and
opposed to God.
Still, this education has largely failed, and we persist in our primitivism, holding the people
opposed to us, or the
force of events, responsible for our
evils.
The first trailer for the film introduces Bridges as a warrior / wizard / knight who is
opposed to the big, bad
forces of evil — especially the version incarnated in the person
of a witch played by Julianne Moore.
Though wide - ranging in his choice
of medium, Nahusenay's exploration
of the Himeme Siqlet, a sacred Ethiopian Orthodox text, is what grounds his seemingly disparate pieces together, through its evocation
of the world's
opposing forces (light, dark; flesh, spirit; good,
evil) and the futility
of their reconciliation.
Through his illustrative storytelling, Trenton Doyle Hancock has developed the Mounds and the Vegans, a distinct set
of mythological characters that the museum describes as «two diametrically
opposed universal
forces that play out the archetypal battle between good and
evil.»