Sentences with phrase «overcomes evil in»

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.»
He saw an apocalyptic pattern in history in which good does not overcome evil in history but grows alongside it to the end.
Dualistic Christian thought doesn't have this unitive concept, striving to overcome evil in order to bring in righteousness.
What has God promised to those that believe in Christ and overcome evil in this life?
It's only through God's love, grace, mecry, forgiveness, and His Holy Spirit can we overcome the evil in our own hearts to bring light to this dark world and a hope for eternity in heaven where there will be NO tears, NO pain forever and forever.
But the true heart of the film was the relationship between Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga respectively), which showcased a marital bond strong enough to overcome evil in the name of helping others.
What ultimately makes the game worth checking out is its cast of characters, as even though they're involved in a by - the - numbers narrative you still root for them and want to see them overcome the evil in their path.
We have moved from the hero overcoming evil in order to bring about the common good and human flourishing, to the sociopath who does whatever it takes to get his or her needs met.

Not exact matches

He deepens this insistency in the Ethics and ties his argument explicitly to the sin of political or public overcoming that requires a norm of shamelessness in order for it to do its dirty work, dirty no more, or so is the claim, because the ruthless deed - doers know no evil.
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.
Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.
This child found in Tolkien's epic story of goodness overcoming evil a literary parallel to the divine metanarrative of the Bible, an imaginative path to finding a place in God's epic story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration.
It is therefore ok for us to use violence in overcoming what we deem to be evil in this world.
It promotes the idea that violence is God's way of overcoming evil, which he manifested ultimately in killing his Son.
Yes, keep praying and keep faithful, that the good you are doing can and will overcome the evil, in God's time.
The whole meaning of the violence of love is contained in Paul's word that evil is to be overcome with good (Romans 12:17 - 21) This is a generalization of the sermon on the Mount.
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.
God has in his nature the knowledge of evil, of pain, and of degradation, but it is there as overcome with what is good.
A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.
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
in the face of great evil, Christians talk about our greatest hope... namely Jesus (not just his ethics, but his life, death & resurrection... he did what we can't... he overcame where we fail... etc.).
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.
Perhaps out of repentance, and perhaps out of ecumenical idealism, many 20th - century Protestants were moved to join Niebuhr in portraying denominationalism as an evil to be overcome.
Stability is the operative word here, keeping in mind that evil, though it will also have a pattern, is inherently unstable and eventually is overcome with the pattern of the good.
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.»
Chateaubriant, Oradour, the Rue des Saussaies, Tulle, Dachau, and Auschwitz have all demonstrated to us that Evil is not an appearance, that knowing its causes does not dispel it, that it is not opposed to Good as a confused idea is to a clear one, that it is not the effect of passions which might be cured, of a fear which might be overcome, of a passing aberration which might be excused, of an ignorance which might be enlightened, that it can in no way be turned, brought back, reduced, and incorporated into idealistic humanism....
In this latter case God is not necessarily responsible for the existence of evil; he would only be responsible if it were not finally overcome.
Its leaders did not believe that the society they were building was the Kingdom of God, but they did believe that human obedience to God could usher in a world in which many of the present social evils would be overcome.
«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
Third, in spite of the dark nature of the topics he covered — war, depression, racism, and genocide — Gilbert's works always retain a spirit of hope, a faith in humanity's ability to survive, and even overcome, the depths of radical evil.
This is the crucial step in overcoming the evil of time.
Whether heeding rational life or the creative will, both Whitehead and Nietzsche feel called upon to transform the worldly character of time and becoming in order to overcome the evil of time and to explain the finally good life.
It utilizes symbols, myths, poetry, and drama to convey trust in life and in humanity's ability to overcome the potentialities for evil inherent in heredity, environment, and social conditions.
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.
It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.
The modern utopias of liberalism and of Marxism have asserted the possibility of the order which overcomes evil emerging either through gradual development or catastrophic struggles in history.
It has held that there is real evil in this world and in man which must be overcome.
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 faitIn 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 faitin 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 faitin Christian faith.
Prescinding now from questions of immortality and the life of God, what hope can we reasonably have for the overcoming of evil in this finite, temporal world of everyday experience?
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.
In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realizeIn fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realizein overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.
The divine aim or purpose, in a world that has its own independence and freedom, is precisely to overcome evil.
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.
But the «over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization» (PH 526) seems to be effective not in transforming the world and overcoming its evil but in harmonizing its discords in the experience of God.18
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.
But does it mean that the world is transformed and the evil in it overcome, or only that it is included in the harmony of God's experience?
Plato saw evil as overcome in the ultimate immortality of the soul.
This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.
I think Jesus gives people power to overcome sin (evil) but He does not make us perfect in this life so we won't be self righteous judgmental jerks about it.
If God is to overcome evil wholly, there must be some «present» in which the individual fully realizes his / her redemption from evil in the depths of experience.
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