Sentences with phrase «punishment for evil»

But I ask: where is the punishment for evil?

Under just cause, for example, he included retributive justice; that is, punishment for evil.

Death was both a part of nature taken for granted and a punishment for evil, the result of God's activity.

So they are convinced that the suffering which afflicts Job can only be the deserved punishment for some evil he has done.

They will ultimately create an «abominatiion» but a prison of Hell awaits them where they will have an eternity of punishment for this evil act.

Not exact matches

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

The temptation to believe that we are the Viceregent of the Almighty, charged with the thunderbolt of heaven, for the punishment of evil - doers, is one of the subtle temptations by which the Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and simevil - doers, is one of the subtle temptations by which the Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and simEvil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and simple.

I second that — quoting one of my favorite websites, evil bible d com: Infinite Punishment for Finite Sins

The new testament acknowledges that there are evil governments who should be feared, but there is no promotion for revenge, war, or punishment.

The two do not belong together in his eyes, for while punishment, which God in His wisdom has connected with every transgression, is a Good, there is no denying that it is such a Good only when it is gratefully received, not when it is simply feared as an evil.

And we dare to be angry with God for the punishment we desire, how evil we have become as a nation.

Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very enemy of God, by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to do evil.

Any system of belief that is based on fear of punishment and hope for reward is inherently barbaric and evil as it eliminates intellectual freedom from the equation.

A good example is Habakkuk's presentation of a dialogue between the prophet and God — the prophet's first complaint is against the sins of Judean society and God explains that he will be using the evils of the invading Chaldeans to punish Judea; the prophet responds by complaining about the evils of the Chaldeans which God then assures will not go unpunished — that they tyranny itself will lead to it's own punishments and that the punishment for Judea's sins is itself redemptive and God assures that he will be able to provide salvation.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Gehenna was thus always associated with a place of bodily and spiritual punishment, not only for the Jews, but for all evil people.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

In this picture redemption of evil follows from and depends upon redemption of the sin for which the evil was the punishment.

There are at least three familiar ways, or models, to imagine the difference Jesus in his passion can make for terrible situations like that of Sam and his family: 1) evil as punishment; 2) perfection through suffering; 3) Jesus as the fellow sufferer who understands.

It imagines evil undergone as punishment for misbehavior according to an unfailing rule by which the degree of punishment is proportionate to the seriousness of the misbehavior.

The writer seems to think patriarchy exists as a PUNISHMENT from God for eating of the fruit, as opposed to a natural result of human evil.

True, the purpose of retribution is served by the murderer's death, but under certain circumstances retribution might interfere with other purposes of punishment: it might prematurely put an end to his rehabilitation; it might undermine deterrence (say, by so angering his compatriots that they, too, commit evils); and it might not be necessary for the physical safety of others.

The new formula, in consequence, was that man's happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one thing supremely pleases God, moral goodness, and one thing supremely he hates, moral evil; that whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all human suffering is thus punishment for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»

On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.

Here the Pope seems to be opposing a long tradition, based on Scripture, which has defended capital punishment for its value as retribution for the evil done and as a deterrence against future crime.

If you want to believe in Jesus because it makes you feel better, that's great, but if you believe that your god is going to condemn people to eternal punishment for not believing in him, then your belief system is evil.

Its the same way people can protest outside funerals claiming AIDS and war death are God's punishment for sin: because the Horror of the delusion is not that «there is a God», but that «There is a God and he approved of my particular brand of hatred, intolerance and evil».

Those who were irremediately evil would be assigned to a place (if that was the right word) where God's absence would be felt with everlasting anguish and where condign punishment for wrong - doing would be experienced.

Christ took the punishment we deserve for our evil on the cross.

These various statements of the limiting criteria differ from one another, and Ignatieff's readers must figure out for themselves where they come from, why these criteria and not others should be employed, and what it might mean in practice to design defenses against terror that involve evil actions whose punishment may be mitigated by the extreme circumstances.

And in Guinea - Bissau, epilepsy is widely thought of as being caused by evil spirits, or sometimes as a punishment for wrongdoing.

Yes, The Evil Within is hardcore in not just the difficulty of the gameplay but also its graphic nature in this third person survival horror that will have you coming back like a sucker for additional punishment.

Also in the world of Nintendo, a rather nicely looked after Nintendo 64 collection sold for # 929 (24 bids), which included 40 boxed games like the desirable Sin & Punishment, Banjo - Tooie, Resident Evil 2 and Paper Mario.

A love that stands outside of time and space will not rest - Til Death Do Us Part.Witch Moth by Kelly Hall - Dominic Dane has endured his sister Dahlia's evil deeds for decades while the two serve out their hundred year punishment, b...

OH, AND ANY CRUELTY PUNISHMENTS TO THOSE DISGUSTING EVIL «DOERS» ONLY OUT FOR A PROFIT.

As if the plight of the polar bear wasn't punishment enough for our evil, selfish, refusing - to - change - our - lifestyle - because - we're - addicted - to - oil ways, it now seems that Mother Gaia may have a deadly new weapon up her sleeve: KILLER MUTANT SHARKS!!!