Sentences with phrase «so than the evil»

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Most of these habits are so normalized that we consider our dissipated hours and lives as something less than evil.

Presumably, much of the criticism of tar - sand oil isn't that it's so environmentally evil that it's ethically worse than, say, Saudi oil.

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.

Giving or taking access to items doesn't matter (so long as the item itself isn't evil) but a firearm is nothing but a tool... no different than a hammer or a saw... using it for self defense is openly condoned by the Bible.

So Pat Robertson advised one of his viewers who wondered if there were evil spirits in her thrift store clothing that... well... better safe than sorry... cast those demons out!

If gays are evil than so am I. Gays are no different than me.

So how can I think someone is evil that under the eyes of God is no different than me?

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noSo we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noso much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

So when God said to Adam that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die I read it more as a threat than as a warning.

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.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

We should seize the opportunity to do so, for as Familiaris Consortio 44 states: «Families should grow in awareness of being «protagonists» of what is known as «family politics» and assume responsibility for transforming society; otherwise families will be the first victims of the evils that they have done no more than note with indifference.»

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

Seriously, I can only stomach reading the atheist slop for so long, never mind posting under numerous handles (oh, Tommie Tom is going to hate my writing handle, but, after all, I am flying with EVIL, so, handle is appropriate to use) to stay on longer than need be.

So Mister Jeffress thinks that the eschatological prediction of doomsday on May 21 is more damaging to Christianity than the prediction of «rapture» preached by Southern Baptists which will teleport born again Christians to heaven while God brings all forms of natural disasters, disease, suffering, and evil upon the rest of mankind.

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.

So when your talking about Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. it wasn't their atheism that made them do the evil things they did any more than say their lack in the belief in unicorns.

And so it follows that the opus humanum laboriously and gradually achieved within us by the growth of knowledge and in the face of evil, is something quite other than an act of higher morality: it is a living organism.

There are so many ways to resist evil than by resorting to violence.

Immortality as a realm where evil is overcome is a deeper reading than immortality as the trivial «rewards and punishments» Hartshorne so rightly rejects.

The «more than» is decisive, for the evils God receives are like impulses that God then renders into a richness of contrast, supplementing evil with its ideal complement, and so achieving aesthetic harmony.

It is a view that takes authority to be a positive good rather than a necessary evil alone and in so doing preserves a truth about human nature and society that stands in danger of loss.

It is also important to add that philosophy is less than the totality of Christianity, so that any philosophical understanding of evil can not possibly be sufficient for anyone who suffers.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

There's a big universe out there, but you've got to expand your mind past the arrogant crap that there's some kind of omnipotent being out there that was so negligent as to leave his «prized creations» alone with an agent of «his» biggest nemesis in «Paradise», while they were mentally no more than toddlers, having no «knowledge of good and evil».

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib - woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... Makes much more sense than Mormonism.

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.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

I suppose my question is given there is the existence of good an evil — what can we do about it so that we end up doing more good than harm?

And I made another effort, and almost succeeded, yet I did not reach it, and did not grasp it, hesitating to die to death, and live to life; and the evil to which I was so wonted held me more than the better life I had not tried.»

I get so angry when certain sins are seen as more evil than others!!

No phrase reveals so clearly the hidden evil that was to spoil the fruit of the Reformation than Luther's saying that Occam was the only scholastic who was any good.

I don't actually believe that the world necessarily ever «started» but our minds can not contain that so how evil got here not a question to be dealt with here other than to say that apparently (and physics is a mystery to me) something needs an opposite to exist?

Jesus tells us that its death is redemption (loopho.le) for having created imperfect beings (so much for omniscience) and that its crucifixion is better than the previous attempt to rid the world of evil a few thousand years earlier.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.

While one can do so in a lot more words, the problem of evil is rarely, if ever, stated differently than this: God is all powerful.

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.

Man's sin had deeper roots than willful disobedience; it was, as it were, a demonic power so that it was not Paul who did evil but «sin which dwelleth in me.»

In fact, one might suspect that a world in which evil was somewhat less victorious than in our present one would evoke more moral qualities, since many people in the present world give up on the battle for goodness because it often seems so hopeless.

don't forget the absolute evil perpetrated by those who so resolutely looked to push all religion our of their societies... the Nazi's, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists... I'm not really one to toss out numbers w / o some good backing, but I would venture a guess that those 3 20th century areligious governments killed way more than the Catholics and Crusaders did.

We would be deterred from preventing evils for fear that by doing so we would make «the world overall to be worse than it otherwise would be!»

For if we knew that God did so, then we would know that every prima facie evil was simply allowed by God to produce some more - than - compensatory good.

So I would go further than Peck and assert that this does not just apply to evil people trying to conceal their guilt with religion, but with all people including sincere ones.

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Many governments which accuse North Korea have a less than perfect track record themselves, and they are willing to overlook despicable acts by their own allies, but even so the North Korean government is clearly evil.

Basically, if diplomacy will not work, the damage inflicted by the aggressor is going to be serious and certain, the war against those damages will not produce greater evils AND Vatican City has a reasonable chance to win the war, than the Pope may declare war if he so wishes.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.