Sentences with phrase «righteous judgment of others»

Corinne's transformation here is so nicely, gently observed by Farmiga and should be essential viewing for anybody who thinks a belief in God is a free pass to righteous judgment of others.

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

He does indeed teach the rigorous requirement for purity of motive; but there is forgiveness for those who sin in this area as in any other, and his severest judgments are reserved for the proud, the exploiters, and the self - righteous.

There is the tendency of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.

Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «self - righteous» judgments in which the other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards of the self.

Sometimes there is one resurrection, accompanied by the final judgment, sometimes two resurrections, the first partial, the second for all the dead, with a millennial reign between; sometimes only the righteous are to be raised, sometimes both righteous and wicked; in some writings the dead come back to live on earth under familiar, material conditions; in others the transcendental and supernatural quality of the resurrected life is emphasized.

We believe that our judgments of others are righteous, valid, and correct.

In his control of events he revealed both his righteous judgments and his saving power, and in spite of the attribution to him bellicose and other anthropomorphic traits the God of Israel is singularly free from common primitive tendencies.

We have learned from the Enlightenment and its Marxist negative image some bad lessons: a self - righteous view of human nature, individual or collective, a good - evil dichotomy in our judgment on others and in our social action, a shallow sense of human community, and an exaggerated confidence in the power of human beings to manage and control their own destinies.

Where Malachi pictured the certainty of God's judgment in order to maintain the confidence of a righteous minority, both Paul and Luke speak to other distortions of belief in divine judgment, the temptation to «hurry the program.»

The archetypal righteous man would be a judge, someone who could stand in judgment of others.