Sentences with phrase «powerful evil god»

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Solution: Either Jesus returns and straightens up, or God gives us a new powerful pious monarch who destroys the current evil power elite, and supports again the Christian Church.

Maybe evil is the work of the devil, but if god is so great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?

Chalk another one up to wishful thinking, but what good would it do us to have an all - powerful god hanging around that either couldn't or wouldn't eliminate evil, be it a separate force or a dreadful quality of mankind?

The central claim is made that moral evil... occurs because God — even though he is all - good and all - powerful — out of goodness decided to give freedom to human beings.

For the Holy Spirit to share His dwelling place with an evil spirit, or to get replaced by the evil spirit, would imply that the evil spirit was more powerful than God.

The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all - powerful God?

The idea of a «devil» who is an opponent of «God» is derived from a Persian idea and it only makes sense if both the «good» entity and the «evil» entity were equally powerful.

Believing Jews and Christians can not escape the perennial dilemma of reconciling the existence of evil with belief in an all - good and all - powerful God.

Another reason, maybe the most numerous, is some variation to the problem if evil; good God, all powerful God, evil happened to me or someone I love and God and God did not come through, so I bagged on God.

Therefore, God does not love his creation or is unaware of the harm that evil does or is not powerful enough to stop evil.

It gets much worse when you consider the problem of evil: If God really exists, and he is really all powerful, and really morally perfect, then why do so many horrible, senseless things happen?

only one of two answers: 1) evil has always been here, because god isn't powerful enough to destroy evil.

The redefinition of omnipotence and omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.

My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god CREATE the VERY ESSENCE of evil, and would that not indicate that god is evil in nature?

He may believe in God, believe that God is both good and powerful, and believe that God has a reason for permitting evil — a reason for each specific evil; but he may have nothing but the most general idea as to why God permits these evils.

If God is good and powerful as the theist believes, then he will indeed have a good reason for permitting evil; but why suppose the theist must be in a position to figure out what it is?

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.

I see the universe as a perfect and balanced place created by god in his own special way, he is all powerful and evil does not exit rather the ability to have freedom of will.

If God is all - goodness and also all - powerful, how is it that there is so much evil and inequality in the world?

If the Christian god is all powerful, He would be able to rid the world of suffering / evil.

Finite Godism: Finite Godism says that while God was the «first cause», He is not all - powerful because evil exists and He can do nothing about it.

God is all knowing and all powerful and all good, yet allows evil to exist, which would either mean God is irresponsible or that he's incapable of stopping evil, which would mean that he's not actually all powerful afterall.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inEvil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inevil in it?

That God, who rewards the wealthy landed aristocrats with riches and long lives and curses the poor, is the butt of a merciless lampoon that issues from the outraged sensitivities of a writer who has acutely observed how the oppressed and infirm suffer undeserved evil at the hands of the powerful and rich.

If the good god is not powerful enough to wipe out evil what makes it a god and if it is powerful enough but chooses not to do so, what kind of «good» is that?

But the power and persistence of evil in frustrating the promised goodness of life raises questions as to whether God can be called perfectly powerful in any traditional sense.

At first I thought my Friend, God, was very powerful; but as I looked at the evil in the world, I knew that the God whose love I had felt would never willingly cause or allow such senseless suffering.

5) you can avoid it as much as you like but YOUR GOD created everything, thus he created and still permits evil he designed to exsist; thus he is either not all powerful or not all knowing or not all present, either way he is not a god because he isn't perfect.

If God is all - powerful then he must be negligent in doing anything about evil.

But this understanding puts us back on the horns of the dilemma: If God is so powerful in creation and so willing ultimately to deify the creation, why is there now evil?

(1) If there were a good and powerful God, he would in some respects allow freedom using only persuasive power; but if he were good and powerful, he would use more coercive power to prevent destructive evil than is apparently being used in the world.

The argument that a solely persuasive God is more powerful than the traditional coercive God is in some tension with the explanation that God does not intervene coercively to prevent excess evil because he does not have the power.

in agreement with Ford it seems to me that the massive evil present in the world is «compatible with unlimited persuasive power» (PPCT 289), and therefore in answer to the second criticism there is no evidence that the persuasion being used is not worthy of a good and powerful God.

While one can do so in a lot more words, the problem of evil is rarely, if ever, stated differently than this: God is all powerful.

Just the previous night, Gregory Alan Thornbury, president of The King's College in New York City, had reminded us that perhaps the most powerful proof for the existence of God in our age is the reality of evil and evil incarnate.

If God is all - powerful, He could destroy evil.

No completely satisfying answer has yet been given to the question why, if God is a reality, powerful and benevolent, evil is allowed to exist.

In the face of all this powerful evil, the question the early Christians were asking is, «Where is God's kingdom?»

In the light of this broader description of evil we should reformulate the theodicy problem so as to ask not only about the justification of disorder in a world created by an allegedly all - good and all - powerful God, but also about a world that seemingly can not exist apart from an intrinsic adventurousness.

So you posit that an evil God that is all powerful may exist.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

Although «theodicy» as a conceptual term only arose in the eighteenth century with Gottfried Leibniz, the issue it identifies is certainly as old as the Book of Job, to wit, how can God be perceived as both good and powerful if evil exists?

If God is conceived as all - powerful, as in classical theology, and this attribute is taken to mean that all decisions are God's — that in truth God is the only agent — then the theist must surely deny either the existence of God or the existence of evil.

The problem arises from an attempt to explain how with a God who is both all - powerful and all - good there can be evil in the world.

The problem of suffering is usually posed as a question: «If God is all - powerful and all good, why does he allow evil to exist in the world?»

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Raimi's stock has fluctuated more than the price of an oil barrel over these past few years — what with him directing the god awful Oz the Great and Powerful and producing the divisive (but nonetheless gory as hell) remake of his own horror classic, The Evil Dead — but the man knows horror better than most — as evident not only by his Evil Dead entries but most notably in Drag Me to Hell, easily one of modern horror's most underrated gems.

This is a starter activity which provides students with this quotation: «Either God can not abolish evil or he will not: if he can not then he is not all - powerful, if he will not then he is not at all good» by Augustine.

Actually, this monetary god is likely more powerful, evil, and wrathful than any previous deity.