Sentences with phrase «punishment of the wicked»

It is important in humanity's concept of the afterlife that there be some kind of punishment of the wicked.

The Bible says if there is no godly punishment of the wicked, then people who would not otherwise sin may be led into temptation, and that is clearly true.

It seems, though, that he sees this forgiveness as being divorced from justice, or the just punishment of the wicked.

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.

Over and over in the Old Testament God says He does not take pleasure in the punishment of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23, Lamentations 3:32 - 33).

There is no reason to question the authenticity of these sayings, or to doubt that Jesus accepted the current belief in the punishment of the wicked by everlasting fire in Gehenna.

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

Aquinas makes this explicit when he argues that God «is forever unappeased by the punishment of the wicked.»

The punishment of the wicked was becoming just as urgent an issue as suitable recognition for the faithful.