Sentences with phrase «overcome by evil»

The holy shaman of the island of Kalimba is overcome by an evil spirit, who destroys the islands sacred totem into pieces.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

-- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

122 Any meaningful theodicy «can only hope to illuminate the radical love of God that is not overcome by evil, that is poured out inexhaustibly over all creation.»

Biblical teaching reflects this straightforward good / evil stance: «Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good», writes Paul in Romans 12:21.

«be not overcome by evil - overcome evil with good».

«Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God... Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.»

But reconciliation takes real courage — the courage not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good.

That is what it means to be overcome by evil, to respond to violence by violence.

Paul says, «Do not let yourself be overcome by evil.»

But to be overcome by evil does not mean that he who is overcome is weaker, inferior, beaten, eliminated; no, it means that he is led to play evil's game — to respond by using evil's means, to do evil.

Not exact matches

If the One who advocated nonviolent love and suffering as the true way to overcome our enemies had been destroyed by evil at the cross, if he had remained in death, then we would have to conclude that death and failure are the final word for those who live nonviolently.

J. L. Mackie... recognizes that the inconsistency can be overcome by saying that all prima facie evil is only apparently evil.

It is only by love that is total, without defense, without reservation, love that does not calculate or bargain, that the white Christian will overcome the evil of revolution, arson, and looting.

What is more, God calls humanity to be co-workers with God in overcoming evil, wrong, and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort, and willing response to what we know of God's love and God's purpose for us.

It is the overcoming of evil by good.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

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 of course, this is exactly how Paul used the passage about burning coals in Romans 12:20 - 21, where he concludes by saying, «overcome evil with good.»

He called upon the Church to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»

They know that evil can not be defeated by military force, only overcome with love.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Apocalyptic is characterized by bizarre images, and violence which is needed to overcome evil.

In particular, the process theology, which conceives of God as working in tenderness and love to overcome the recalcitrant elements of evil and advance the world process by a continuous creation, is consistent with basic notes in Christian faith.

Process theism, by relinquishing the claim that God could completely control the world in order to overcome the problem of present evil, can not have this traditional assurance about the future.

They understood that Jesus came to show us that evil can not be overcome by more evil, that killing can not be overcome by more killing.

God could also mediate the free actions of such souls to one another, taking care to harmonize any potential conflicts by means of conceptual supplementation, thus overcoming any evil consequent upon the free actions of many actualities acting in concert.

Was that what Pope Francis felt on Pentecost Sunday» a source of evil so malicious and strong that it could only be overcome by the greater power of Jesus Christ?

The emphasis was on saying No to the kingdom of evil, which has been overcome by the power of Christ exhibited in his death and resurrection.

I was going to be killed by my own hands against my will but my defiant will to overcome this evil force prevailed, I waged a mind war over it and my desperation led me to ask help from God.

Overcoming Evil God's Way: The Biblical and Historical Case for Nonresistance by Stephen Russell

By freely accepting crucifixion, he demonstrated what a sheep among wolves looks like... Jesus revealed that God, being love, chooses a different path — to suffer evil to overcome it.»

Though we are tempted to hide behind barricades, guns and bombs, the stories of the martyrs remind us of the one who overcame evil not by defeating the enemy but by loving the enemy and thus defeating death itself.

... by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

According to the neo-Gnostic narrative, our obsession with mastering nature for our own use and with reshaping ourselves sexually betrays a conviction that the physical is evil and must be overcome by the mind.

He said: «As we see you, as we see this area with its constant memories of what has happened, we seek to share with you in a way that reminds you that you are not alone, that the pain you suffer is not considered passing but profound, and that the grief for the lost is something that will forever be inscribed by our memories in these very stones, stones that over so many centuries have seen so much violence, but have also seen the renewal of hope and the overcoming of evil.

That God's persuasion successfully overcomes the evil of entropy is shown by the fact of the existent universe.

The resurrection points to an additional power: the power to overcome evil by absorbing it and transforming its consequences.

The Jesus who was crucified was the same Jesus who overcame the power of Satan and the evil spirits, who was the friend of publicans and sinners, who was condemned to death by the «righteous», who preached the Sermon on the Mount, who disputed with the Pharisees and denounced them, who was always an enigma to his disciples and in the end was rejected by them, who was reviled by Jews and Gentiles.

One of the oldest lies of the world is that evil and violence is best overcome and defeated by violence.

Although he is the affirmation of all that is, yet the terror of the infinite and mysterious, and the grim realities of evil, guilt, and death are camouflaged by the formula me on, but never really overcome.

The modern, secular version of this view sees evil as a product of human institutions and social structures which can be overcome by human solutions.

For it is by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities that God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

This is a good thing, but in the critique of Ralph Winter that David Hesselgrave gave, he referred to Ralph Winter's reliance on Gregory Boyd's view of «microbial evil» and the necessity of kingdom work overcoming the forces of darkness as represented by disease and poverty in war.

But if Jesus is our example, if being fully human and fully God looks like this carpenter from Nazareth, we know that the evil within ourselves and in this world can not be conquered by hate but must be overcome with love.

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

Any deficiencies or limitations, they consider, are to be overcome by a more appropriate or extended application of further technology: a stance identified by Frederick Ferre as «technolatry,» the belief that «every apparent evil brought on by technique is to be countered by yet greater faith in technique.»

Sometimes the demons King summons up are opposed by a generic white magic of one kind or another, which balances the evil but isn't necessarily strong enough to overcome it.

The crucifixion is not tragedy that must be overcome by the resurrection but rather stands together with resurrection as God's victory over evil and his conquest of sin.