Sentences with phrase «rather than an evil»

It shifted the action from World War II Germany to Mars, where the enemies were evil demons rather than the evil Nazis.

It seems very pro-Christian to say its growth is due to the virtues of the religion rather than the evils of its opponents.

Jesus wants them to look at the results of his actions, which had to indicate a good, benevolent source, rather than an evil source of power.

(It may be worth noting here that the whole point of real Christianity lies not in interference with the human power to choose but in producing a willing consent to choose good rather than evil.)

Without belief that both government and the market will act in a good rather than an evil fashion — that they deserve our trust — we can not have faith in the future.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

Whitehead realizes that a measure of discord may be so extrinsically beneficial that the discord, when considered in relation to the whole, must be judged good rather than evil.

I assure you that it is because of misunderstanding rather than evil purpose.

While these bad boys have a bit of maple syrup and molasses, the bottom line is that they're made with fiber - rich chickpeas that actually help regulate blood sugar rather than the evil white stuff that elevates it.

The one for I, Tonya could conceivably read, «Tonya Harding's life underwent a momentous change when she agreed to be interviewed for a sympathetic biopic starring Australian star Margot Robbie that portrayed her as the victim of a psychotically abusive mother and husband rather than an evil little scheming piece of white trash.»

Some people might call this a clone of Paranormal Activity, except playing out as a thriller instead of a found - footage tape, and with aliens as the home invaders rather than evil spirits.

As a monster scout, your job is find the survivors and by using your monster hunting skills, you need to capture these monsters and use them for a force good rather than evil.

I'm going to give them the benfit of the doubt and say that this whole enterprise is based on clumsiness and stupidity rather than evil, but we have to make a stand and make it clear to these people that if you live by the sword you die by the sword.

By «bioerror», I mean something which has the same effect as a terror attack, but rises from inadvertance rather than evil intent.

«Then we will cleanse our souls with other projects, like using the data for good rather than evil.

Not exact matches

The scientists behind these studies all seem to agree on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable from high achievement and make rational cost - benefit analyses.

The five tips outlined here give you a range of ways to manage your credit card around Christmas time so that it becomes a valuable part of the process, rather than a necessary evil.

It is characteristic nowadays to talk with horror of killing rather than of murder, and hence, since in war you have committed yourself to killing — i.e. «accepted an evil» — not to mind whom you kill.

That didn't turn out and he undoubtedly wants to pursue some sort of lust as in the words of Jesus Christ, «men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.»

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

Some evils may be derivative from earlier evils (e.g. evil choices by people) rather than necessarily always directly imputed from without by Satan, but for classical Christian cosmology, especially in the Roman Catholic system of inherited guilt, the one (Satan's rebellion and successful tempting of Adam and Eve) causes the other (the Fall and subsequent evils).

It is based on a presumption of error rather than a presumption of evil intent.

There were two main camps at the time: that represented by Jovinian, claiming that virgins, widows, and married women were all deserving of equal merit, and that represented by Jerome, which said that marriage was merely the lesser of two evils, rather than something positive in its own right.

The thought rather than the person was evil.

The black mans hatred for the whites for their evil but the shame of it is the shame and self hatred of allowing Someon to enslave them rather than fight.The Pharaoh had thousands of slaves, anyone they contoured ended up in the slave pits, anyone, white back and everything in Beeton.

Rather than a prescription for revenge, the Bible advocates beneficent reciprocity - returning good for evil.

«Salvation» began to be taught as an extrinsic juridical transaction rather than an experiential internal transformation and Law rather than Grace [Unconditional kenotic Love] became the solution to coping with human evil in classical Protestantism.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

You believe that the word is a sea of grey where there are many many viewpoints, all of them good and valid, rather than Good and Evil You refuse to judge people, saying «who am I to?»

844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

Did not Jesus urge us to turn the other cheek rather than picket, to refuse to «resist one who is evil» rather than boycott unjust companies?

It's a way to justify what you don't yet understand, rather than acknowledging that it's just understandable at the moment, and it's acceptance amongst those who think like they do, it's the creation of a definable «evil» to fight against (satan, atheists, other religions, basically everyone except their small group of like minders... even other denominations that are nearly identical quibble).

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

If people want to do something evil, they should just do it, rather than claiming Jesus told them to, or by trying to make it seem not so bad because they are doing it for Jesus.

If a person bearing the name of magistrate is doing evil rather than good, where does that leave the matter of submission?

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.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

They deal with evil as it needs to be dealt with» from a human rather than divine perspective.

Rather than confront these evils, our nation turns to the Prosperity Gospel nonsense in order to rationalize our immorality.

19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

When death came to be understood as the ultimate evil rather than as a stage on the way to eternal life, utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham found it easy to dismiss capital punishment as «useless annihilation.»

Kauffman pointed out that «Jesus talks about loving our enemies and praying for our enemies and doing good to those who do evil to us»; more than this, on the cross «Jesus allowed himself to die, and absorbed in his own being the violence around him, rather than countering that violence.»

It is admittedly a choice of evils, and admittedly it can be abused, as when resorted to merely as a convenience rather than to escape probable future wretchedness.

Atheists refuse to accept the truth, and thus they will be condemned because they love evil rather than believing in the truth.

Rather than a choice of two evils, we have two evils that are, for the moment, feeding off each other.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Jesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil.

Does Mr. Anderson believe it is pure accident that those evils are in our past rather than in our present?