Sentences with phrase «resulting from evil»

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So, admittedly, someone holding to classical Western Christian cosmology does believe evil in the world results from Satan's initial rebellion and the subsequent chaos it caused (such as humanity becoming mixed up in it).

In Kekes» view, Allen's thuggery exemplifies the evil that can result from «disenchantment with ordinary life.»

The pope indicated that an insurrection can not be condemned if the evils resulting from it are less grave than the evils it seeks to remedy (the same test as for a just war).

The most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time) is Psalm 139, «search me heart and thoughts, fin out if there is any evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my heart, God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine is highly uncomfortable) the result is so worth it.thanks for this post.

One can not guarantee in any give instance whether evil or good will result from it.

However, they may be driven sometimes to emphasize the lesser evil so much that their decision may become remote from the Christian ethic, even though they don't intend that result.»

Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.

As a result, most of those who think and write about this problem do so from the standpoint of a choice between that attitude which sees good and evil as part of a higher unity and that which sees them as irreconcilable opposites.

In Buber's early philosophy of Judaism good is identified with decision of the whole being, evil with the directionlessness that results from failure to decide.

69 The biblical interpretation of human history rejects the pathetic (the pain caused by unthinking natural evil) and the tragic (a conscious choice of evil for the sake of good) for the ironic (evil resulting from man's wrong use of his unique capacities).

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

But when men and women suffer from the results of the wave, we are more likely to call it evil.

It does not follow, however, from Jesus» virtual silence about any human responsibility for the restraint of evil, that he believed this result would be attained as a kind of by - product of the growth of good.

In my (abandoned) theory, I argued that the Old Testament portrays God holding back disasters upon people until, as a result of their great evil, they departed from God's protective hand.

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.

The result will be to free morality from a host of evils — parochialism, bias, tribalism, xenophobia, nepotism and other forms of excessive in - group bias (including irrational bias toward members of our own species in exclusion of all other species).

But if true «magic» is only obedience to the will of God and the grace that flows from this, then evil «magic» in Tolkien is the result of the promise of the serpent in Eden — that we shall be like gods, by using our cunning and not through obedience.

The creation myth in Genesis states this symbolically — the expulsion from Eden was the result of eating the fruit of a tree which made men «as gods, knowing good and evil» (Gen. 3:5).

In both cases the evil results causally from my action, and in both cases the evil is not desired for its own sake.

Ford is right in saying that unlimited persuasive power appropriate for a God is compatible with any tragic evil resulting from a wrong choice rejecting that persuasion.

By means of the State, the evil in human life may be constrained to that minimum that must result from freedom of the will in fallen humanity.

After recounting the «evils» which accompanied the industrial revolution, evils resulting from the diversion of attention towards «things as opposed to values,» Whitehead writes, «it may be that civilization will never recover from the bad climate which enveloped the introduction of machinery» (SMW 291f).

This could be poetic reference to an artist (creator God) simply washing off the canvas and starting over with Noah, a symbolic picture of how those who believe in the Hebrew God of that day are carried away above the storms of life in the protective hands of God, symbolic of judgment for those not created in the image of God, a narrative of why the Hebrew race is the chosen race, prophecy of end time judgment or literal in that the babies and people resulting from $ ex with the nephlium produced evil beyond that imaginable and God was showing mercy.

Again, the crisis of the religious right does not stem from the differences between the reluctant «lesser of two evils» voters and the «do not do evil that good may result» conscientious objectors.

But when we look at the world around us, we find prevalent instances of apparently gratuitous evil — pointless suffering from which no greater purpose seems to result.

Oord takes Wesley's concept of God as Spirit and explains how God as provider of initial aims is not responsible for the evil that results from human action because God does not have the control that humans have over human bodies.

God can then act soverignly to address the estrangement that resulted from that choice to do evil»

Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a profound faith such as the great religions make possible (and in our own part of the world, that means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination of existence, which is the result of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.

This is largely because of the highly emotive nature of the sexual abuse of children, resulting from the perceived innocence of youth, the vulnerability of children and social conceptions of these child abusers as evil and beyond help.

That Collateral — a four - part Netflix drama involving the struggles of migrants seeking asylum, the evils of human trafficking, perfidious intelligence agencies, women's sexual victimization, drug - dealers and more — succeeds in achieving a certain suspense is no small miracle, given the confusion resulting from its hugely overcrowded script.

It's chewy popcorn television, where everything zips by at face value, from the laughs to the thrills to the kills, and once again, Ash Vs. Evil Dead delivers this mayhem with gutsy results.

The publisher has said we'll now see three or four titles from series like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter as a result reducing development times.

Rescuing him from the clutches of his misguided judgment and freeing the oppressed inhabitants (while avoiding being turned into stone by the wand - wielding queen), will require a little magic from Aslan... and result in a few battles between good and evil.

The plot of the film reels forth from Baby Doll's (Browning, A Series of Unfortunate Events) incarceration in a all - girls mental institution resulting from the death of her mother and accidental death of her younger sister while trying to keep her evil stepfather (Plunkett, Snakes on a Plane) from inflicting the kind of abuse on her he's been inflicting on her.

The story revolves around brothers Soren (Sturgess) and Kludd (Kwanten) as the two take opposite paths when a fall from their treetop home results in their being captured by a collection of evil owls known as the Pure Ones.

BERNIE, the amazing true story of the titular character, the most beloved man in the town of Carthage, Texas, who befriended the most despised, and the richest, person in that town, Marjorie Nugent, in a relationship that pitted good against evil with results that amazed, astonished, and became the fodder for small - town gossip from the first day they clapped eyes on each other right up until today.

Jacob St - Amour from Link - Cable Writes: Almost in every game, we strap on the suit of heroes and heroines, taking down the bad guys, saving those in distress and defeating the ultimate evil usually resulting in becoming the savior of that said realm.

The result is something that takes a slightly different direction from the first game, putting the themes of human evil from The Dark Descent into a global perspective with very disturbing results.

From our playthrough, this just resulted in some people shouting praises and offering to have sex with you (yes this was as a result of the good karma) or insulting you (evil karma).

Resident Evil 7 is a relatively bipolar experiment as its perspective and overall tone are a departure from the series» renowned tendencies, despite its aforementioned return to form; seamlessly blending the core fundamentals of survival horror, while also implementing popularized elements of contemporary game design, resulting in a harmonic balance of the new and old.

Of course doing lots of evil things to a nation, such as attacking their own as well as their allied ships will leave them disgruntled, and results in them putting a price on your head and sending out Pirate hunters to hunt you down, and even worse they'll bar you from entering many of their towns.

As an intended result, ORC is far more comparable to games such as Left 4 Dead, rather than the typical survival horror you might be expecting from the Resident Evil universe.

In Unit 4 an army of evil aliens has stolen sacred artifacts from a number of planets across the solar system which has resulted in an alarming decay.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.

Also, with so much data cracked from the CRU servers, the so - called «skeptics» couldn't process the data to discover some embarrassing results which were censored by the oh - so - evil warmist scientists?

• Leader dominated, with those in charge taking 70 percent of the talk time • Results focused, with a common theme being how far short the team is falling from their target • Information based, with team members sharing in detail what they did last week and what they will do this week • A necessary evil