Sentences with phrase «personal force of evil»

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There are those who are filled with admiration for Christ's demonstrated way of self - giving love, and of his personal non-resistance to the forces of evil.

For example, there are those who are filled with admiration for Christ's demonstrated way of self - giving love, and of his personal non-resistance to the forces of evil.

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

He says conservatives like Dreher and Douthat are foolish to hail him as some kind of truth - teller to and about conservative elites, that the reality is he is an enabler of American personal irresponsibility and what's more, a force for political evil....

Whether he did it for the money, or to force Jesus into a situation where he could display his divine power and so bring in the kingdom by force, or out of personal disappointment at the apparent failure of the mission, or because he was evil from the beginning (but then why did Jesus call him in the first place?)

I believe, as do the adventists, that there is great need of commitment to Christ and a personal religion that will give hope in troubled times and withstand the evil, even demonic, forces abroad in our world.

In the minds of many a successful ministry now entailed a study of society and of the social forces involved in the shaping of the life of the individual, an awareness of social evils as well as personal sins, and some knowledge of the means of «social salvation» as well as of individual redemption.

They include the naming of angels (Michael, Raphael and so on); a personal Devil (which Satan later became) with accompanying demons; a Book of Life which records the deeds of people during their lifetime; a coming cosmic conflict in which the forces of evil will be finally overthrown; the separation of the soul from the body at death; a general resurrection and a universal judgement; and an afterlife with rewards and punishments.