Sentences with phrase «power of evil»

This is chiefly to be seen in the frequent reference to angels, the personification of the cosmic power of evil in Satan, the story of the Ascension, and the birth stories of Jesus, both of which are expressed in terms of traffic between heaven and earth.

Is it a myth of the divine Redeemer, who by his insight and fidelity thwarts the cosmic powers of evil?

The transposition is apt, because Jesus pictures himself as a general in an army, and the present situation as one of fierce baffle — the climactic battle, in fact, between God's army and that of the personified power of evil in the world.

That is what apocalyptic is all about: God's sovereignty in spite of the present power of evil and God's final vindication of the faithful and just.

Are you like some sort of Superman who can resist the magical hypnotic persuasive power of the evil Jews?

The writer reminds readers that full enjoyment of God's blessing is limited by the continuing power of evil in the world.

In prophecy there is no thought that God is limited and frustrated by another divine power of evil.

The kingdom of God would come, to be sure, as a consequence of a decisive act of God, for only God could defeat the supernatural powers of evil which opposed his rule and only God could release the tides of spiritual power which would give the new age its character; but the kingdom of God was to be a kingdom within men's hearts and within men's world.

But for a human to become intemperate on The Walking Dead is deadly, for intemperance «more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to «take heart» against the wounding power of evil in the world.»

The protective powers of evil eye jewellery are ancient, it's believed to ward off ill - wishes and bad luck.

«This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil.

It is made out of varied materials, for the tyrannies that oppress the human spirit differ among themselves, but all make up one power of evil.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

And Christian theology has always seen this terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

We are to affirm the fundamental goodness of life but not so as to acquiesce in the power of evil as it thwarts and destroys life.

Christian theology has always seen Jesus» terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

No doubt he used the language of his own day it would be difficult to know what else he could have done — but surely there can be no doubt that behind such expressions as «Satan,» «the Evil One,» «the Prince of this world,» «Beelzebub» and «the Devil» there is recognition of the power of evil.

Now in this country of traditional Christian values, a land which may well lead the world in matters of justice and liberty, it is very easy to underestimate the powers of evil.

At any time He could overwhelm his attackers with the highest Power of all, but this could not be the way that humanity was to be redeemed from the power of evil that held it in thrall.

Another theory, known as «Christus Victor» (Christ the Conqueror) pictures Christ on the cross overcoming the power of evil.

At any rate, it is profoundly significant that Jesus frankly recognized and boldly faced the reality and power of evil.

It's simply «the evil» — the world under sway of the power of evil.

A simple, three - sentence report on what Elhanan finds when he returns to his hometown after the occupation seems to make a case for the ultimate victory of the power of evil: «The synagogue: transformed into a stable by the Germans.

The world, insofar as it is captive to sin, is under the power of the evil one and still awaiting the liberation that Christ has won for it (1 John 5:19).

-LSB-...] about fighting the power of evil in high places, and fighting institutions with a Gospel message, this is what I'm talking about.

The royal office consists in his actual victory over the powers of evil in his inauguration of the Kingdom itself.

Some have supposed that he changed God's attitude toward man or effected some alteration in the power of evil over the world.

People are judged; that is, stripped of these powers of evil, but not damned.

When people join the church, Joshua would have asked more than a rote «Do you renounce the powers of evil and seek the freedom of new life in Christ?»

In short, no consideration of the kingdom should minimize the power of evil.

Don't say, the power of evil, of the wicked world, is great, but we, we are guiltless....

Soon the consummation of all things will take place and the powers of evil will be put down once and for all.

But what about the biblical notion of a final consummation in complete victory is finally and permanently won over the powers of evil?

(Isaiah) Later on when the individual comes to be more important and when the powers of evil, now cosmic in scope, are thought to be too formidable to overcome within history, the expectation becomes otherworldly, and a resurrection of the individual dead is announced.

Finally, while biopolitics is set within a goal - oriented framework which stresses the importance of utopian dreaming as a catalyst of social change, it must not lose sight of the power of evil in human life and history.

Each day the knights went forth to battle with the powers of evil; and each evening they came home, weary and wounded.

In a dramatic demonstration that the kingdom of heaven meant the defeat of the powers of evil and death, Jesus raised the dead, cleansed lepers, and cast out evil spirits.