Sentences with phrase «possibility for evil»

What our experience tells us is that change is not necessarily improvement, and that in the moral order every new possibility for good is simultaneously a possibility for evil.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

To help us avoid the cross, our theologies first minimize our participation in evil, and then inflate our possibilities for goodness.

God wanted to rescue humanity from either possibility and so He actively allowed men to blame Him for the evil of their own hearts.

From this power comes man's capacity for goodness which, with the alternative possibility of evil, places on us a great responsibility.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

Nothing is good for Kant except a «good will,» nor does he ever seriously envisage the possibility of turning to the good with the «evil impulse» in such a way as to unify impulse and will (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans.

By this means, Hartshorne has paved the way for excitingly new possibilities for contemporary theological grappling with the age - old problem of evil.

God forgives the sinner not in the sense that the sinner's past is changed, not in the sense that the consequences of his sin (to himself and others including God) are obliterated and past evils are no longer evils, but in the sense that possibilities for good are ever present in spite of the evils.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

(There is also the possibility that the Spirit is what we would call evil, but it is a possibility fruitless to entertain for the same Pascalian reasons.

The conclusion most abhorrent to Niebuhr's critics was his idea that the growth of man's possibilities for good carries with it the possibility of growth in evil.

Hence a mysterious but genuine part of the divine agency in the world (of which more will be said later in this chapter) is the way in which the error, the maladjustment, the refusal to move forward, the «evil» in the world, precisely because (and precisely in the degree that) it enters into the divine concern, can become the occasion for new possibilities of good.

Living hope for the future leads to militant action in the present to establish justice, to feed the hungry, to free the oppressed, and in every way to heal the hurts of men in anticipation of a complete victory over evil that defines the horizon of possibility.

But for the same reason, unprecedented possibilities of horrendous evil lie ahead if the demonic potential of man is unleashed in a holocaust of nuclear war or if he foolishly populates or pollutes himself to death.

The possibilities for both good and evil uses of new discoveries have been repeatedly illustrated in the history of science.

«He is the Whole in every categorial sense, all actuality in one individual actuality, and all possibility in one individual potentiality «47 Panentheism thus differs from traditional theism by asserting that all the world is entirely inside God instead of outside him; and it diverges from pantheism by insisting that the creatures which are all in God nevertheless have a measure of genuine freedom, independence, and even capacity for evil.

And yet perhaps a very benign judgement, in comparison with some of the apocalyptic images in scripture in which, for instance, the rich man is in torment in Hades with no possibility of surcease (Luke 16:19 - 31), the unrepentant evil are cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 10:11 - 15), etc.?

That quibble aside, Collins classifies the flowers according to themes: the meaning of truth, intellectual devotion to God, the problem of evil and suffering, the cry for justice, the concord between science and faith, the possibility of miracles, the experiences of longing and mysticism, love and forgiveness as pointers to God, and the irrationality of atheism.

On Ford's view, God is responsible or the possibilities alone, and creatures for all actuality, and he should admit that evil, like good, is possible before actual.

Cobb contrasts Carpenter's ethical concept of the quality of life Cobb's own interest in historical «progress,» which has not led to greater and greater virtue or improved quality of life but to greater possibilities for good and evil.

There was no possibility of repentance after death; as we must note, there was either the definite sending to eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.

It allows for the possibility of great disorder and evil.

This means that the whole man is under the necessity of decision; there is no neutrality for him, he has to decide between the only two possibilities which there are for his life, between good and evil.

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.

On the contrary, there is much evidence that the increase of good increases the possibility for greater evil.

For example, war is evil as long as the possibility of peace is open to the combatants.

If you accept the premise of free will, which you must or we would all be believers, then you have to allow for the possibility of evil, sin, bad choices whatever you want to call them.

The Judeo - Christian vision of a reality in which personal subjects are of central importance, and in which they are responsible for what they do in relation to possibilities of good and evil, has been held by many people who did not call themselves Jews or Christians.

For where there is confusion or inconsistency in that concept, there is correlative difficulty regarding what it means to be a creature.27 If a creature could escape all evil, and indeed even its possibility, and escape it because God's perfect power and goodness would prevent anything undesirable from occurring, then the very conceivability of evil would render theism absurd.

To bring this back around to the topic at hand, there is a reason why the first thing in my above list of things I am watching for this E3 is the possibility of another Evil Within getting announced, and it is that Evil Within is awesome.

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Driven by the conceptual and formal possibilities of the tension between light and dark, and good and evil, Paul Chan is best known for his projected animations that use shadows and silhouettes to engage cultural commentary and contemporary modes of communication.