Sentences with phrase «overcoming the evil of»

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.

Radical feminism, associated with deep hurt and anger, emphasizes female jurisdiction and overcoming evils of patriarchy.

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 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.

«Whitehead and Nietzsche: Overcoming the Evil of Time.»

... 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.

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

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.

Furthermore, the Church had no right to try to overcome the evils of society, but it had every right to direct the personal relations between masters and slaves.

Not exact matches

Luke then overcomes a series of challenges not only to rescue the princess, but also to save the rebels from the evil empire.

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.

Having the same passion and similar inclinations, the difference between Christians and non-christians: Christians expose the problems and fight against the flesh's improper desires and evil, and many of them overcome as a result and establish good laws.

Nor should the church delay implementing Jesus» nonviolent method of overcoming evil with good until the Caesars and Hitlers disappear.

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.

You can overcome evil with good, because the cross overcame all of your evil and now gives you the power to do good.

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 promotes the idea that violence is God's way of overcoming evil, which he manifested ultimately in killing his Son.

Paul bids us overcome evil with good, and this, too, is the imagery of contest.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

If, again, we look at God - become - man we find that as a matter of course and of habit he opened his personality to God not merely to be sure that he was following the divine plan of action but to receive potent spiritual reinforcement for the overcoming of evil.

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.

It is the overcoming of evil by good.

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.

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.).

* it's worse than bringing a knife to a gun fight... it's having the Good News that overcomes evil and choosing not to speak of it.

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.

He spoke of the «fervent hope» that the «diabolical evil» come be overcome if the international community continued to help.

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 contends, rather, that if human theoretical beliefs are central to the human experience of evil, then the effort to overcome human evil can not omit the theoretical dimension of the problem» (OPE 16).

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

«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.»

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.

It conceived the emergence of man from sin and the overcoming of evil as primarily a problem of creation, the making of the new man and the new world.

We should likewise overcome evil with good and challenge this system with radical lives of political activism.»

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.

So much for the power of God's love to overcome evil!

«2 The retention of subjective immediacy within the everlastingness of God's nature is seen then as subjective immortality.3 Some argue that subjective immortality is necessary for the religious need of continuity between present hope and future fulfillment, redemption and fulfillment, and the overcoming of evil.4

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.

It consents to the evil outwardly as a form of sacrifice — inwardly it knows it to be permanently overcome.

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.