Sentences with phrase «real evil in»

While the bishop's exegesis does not sparkle with clarity, it sure seems that she is attributing the real evil in this Lucan story to the apostle himself.

There is real evil in this world, may you be a prophetic outpost for the Kingdom of God, living into the abundance of God in your life.

It has held that there is real evil in this world and in man which must be overcome.

The real evil in the world, then, is the evil will of men.

Anything less in this fallen world is merely vain speculation and a pipe dream because like it or not there is real evil in the heart and mind of man and it permeates everything around us — even in the church.

There is real evil in this world, you are a prophetic outpost for the Kingdom of God.

Not exact matches

In another, a scruffy bearded man peers through a set of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumablIn another, a scruffy bearded man peers through a set of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumablin anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.

The simplistic approach seems distracting to the real presence of evil in the world — similar to the red «devil» with the tail and pitchfork.

As Christians watching horror, we are reminded through our belief in «Our Father» that, in the real world, God is present in our lives to «deliver us from evil.»

We aren't saying he's real, just saying that if he was, wouldn't he be responsible for the evil in the world as well as the good?

Haught does not confront the real evil of sin in our world.

Not all delegates in the Council were in agreement with the above statement; many felt that the real evils faced by workingmen were alcohol and working on the Sabbath, but the principles were approved by most members.

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

The evil that strikes us is not real; it is, as seen from a higher perspective, but one chord struck in the wonderful melody of life.

(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.)

no real Christian would advocate murder though and it is in no way an indictment against God, he gave us free will to do good, not evil.

Evil is real, and evil is embodied in persons as well as unleashed on people by spiritual forEvil is real, and evil is embodied in persons as well as unleashed on people by spiritual forevil is embodied in persons as well as unleashed on people by spiritual forces.

If by «evil exists» you mean that evil possesses a real substance of its own, and that it therefore exists in the way goodness exists (or, for that matter, a tree, a rabbit, an idea or a dream exists), in point of fact Christian tradition has usually denied this quite forcibly.

I have dealt with people in real life from atheist telling me my belief is a joke, or the «idea of Christianity» offends them, and then had people try to tell me that God is in fact the evil one.

«I've always tried to contrast that bright, white light of real goodness or Godliness against evil,» he said in a 1988 interview.

if the cristianity is an evil like hitler,,, why the key of kingdom of heaven or the fountain of youth or immortality are in the hand of christianity,,,,,,, why not to your group or to you,,,, hybrid or human alien is not allowed to this planet and before i distribute this key to the real human 100 % you are not here in planet earth,,,,,, remember,,, IAM THE KEY!!!!!

In the real world we hope, but sometimes doubt, that good will triumph over evil.

Evil IS real in this world, but is not defined correctly in anybody's scriptures.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

To fulfill this mission it was necessary that God the word should become perfect human being in possessing a rational soul capable of exercising a real choice between good and evil and entering into conflict with the passions of the human soul.

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

Cyprian therefore lived in a world when demonic forces, evil spirits and magic were considered as real things.

Here we meet good and evil as primal moving spirits set in real opposition to one another, and here, for the first time, evil assumes a substantial and independent nature.

Hereafter, however Buber may change his philosophy, he never forsakes his belief in a redemption which accepts all the evil of real life and transforms it into the good.

As Canon Andrew White (aka the vicar of Baghdad) affirms in his interview with us, real evil is very much alive in the world today.

The evil itself lies in the intention: «The project of the sin and the reflecting upon it and not its execution is the real guilt.»

Based upon the absolute belief in the primacy of the spirit, it taught that only spirit is truly real; consequently such things as evil and pain really do not exist.

Cyprian believed in a real literal and vivid hell and in the de Idoloum, he mentioned that Christ and Christian power over the forces of evil is the proof that the true God is the Lord of all things.

Only the Sanhedrin Jews and synagogue officials parade around in Jewish prayer shawls at all times, conveying the subliminal image that the «real»» the most religious» Jews were the most diabolically evil opponents of G - d's gift to Man.

Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render evil in our world terribly real to us.

There is a very real difference between good and evil actions and this difference is not only in how these affect others.

The real question is, are there individuals in every ideological sphere who practice stupidity and evil, of which such practice has no bearing on the falsity or truthfulness of the ideology?

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

The real evil that follows in the wake of commercial dishonesty so general as ours is the intellectual dishonesty it generates.

In fact, it is the consideration of evil which constrains us to make this new move; now, with the consideration of evil, it is the very question, of freedom, of the real freedom evoked by the postulates of the Critique of Practical Reason, which returns; the problematic of evil requires us to tie, more directly than we have so far been able to do, the actual reality of freedom to the regeneration which is the very content of hope.

Evil exists in real life as does good.

This hope for the Good Society was justified in liberal theology both by its ultimate faith in God and by what it took to be experiences of real victory over evil.

What can faith say, then, in the face of real evil?

But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?

But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14

It may be objected that this reference to play proves the point of the evil in real conflict; for it might be argued that the essence of play is that the conflict is not quite real.

I do believe that there is a force of evil in the world that is greater than the sum of its parts, and that in the normal course of life in the kingdom, real resistance will be encountered.

These «people» are an embodiment of modern evil and have no place in any real church and no place in the 21st Century for that matter.

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!