Sentences with phrase «to choose evil»

He can not give man the power of choice without granting him power to choose evil as well as good.

Human experience, however, indicates that man invariably chooses evil.

Who among us could affirm that we became sinners by deliberately choosing evil in full view of acknowledged moral standards?

And since man chooses evil, his sin can not be blamed on his finitude, a defect in his nature, his ignorance, or an evolutionary hangover from his animal ancestry.

Story after story in the bible show God seeking lost sinners, wooing them, urging them to turn from their freely chosen evil deeds, be forgiven and walk in his ways.

But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word.

Islam states that Allah created man with a disposition which leads him sometimes to choose the good and sometimes to choose the evil way of life.

It is in this light too that we can understand the paradoxical myth of the two spirits, one of whom chose evil precisely as evil.

The Calvinistic doctrine of Total Depravity does not teach that each of us goes astray or turns away, but rather that we are born that way, that before we can even make a choice for good or evil, we are predisposed to only choose the evil.

At the same time, people who choose evil will obviously do hurtful things, BUT, they will be judged for it.

«Choosing to aid in the murder of another will not always amount to choosing an evil greater than the evil threatened,» wrote justices David Doherty and Gladys Pardu for the panel also including Justice David Watt.

Man commits treason against God by trusting Satan over Him (ie man chooses evil).

If you prefer the opposite of justice, light and love, you are choosing evil, pain, and separation.

-- We «jumped» by choosing evil to sin.

I hope when that day comes, I would just close my eyes and look at the positive things you have done in your life rather than remember how much you despise me and how hurt I am when you chose evil over me.

It was like Gilligan was trying to balance being true to the story's moral core (the hell that people choose when they choose evil), and sending the audience home happy.

And you can't be good if you don't have the freedom to choose evil.

The human agent became for him a one - sided coin; he could be allowed autonomy only in his capacity to choose evil.

Gave them the means of choosing Good from Evil... and they chose evil.

Also, keep your eyes open for Kevin Timpe's forthcoming book Free Will in Philosophical Theology, which has a very insightful discussion of the logic of choosing evil, including damnation.

The human heart is wicked and if left to ourselves we will choose evil.

3) Under - age Canaanites (who were not yet old enough to refuse good and choose evil).

They chose evil, they chose carnality, they chose pain, misery, death.

Rather, they have been corrupted in such a way that they invariably tend to choose evil and turn away from God.

The capacity to choose God and goodness came with the commensurate ability to choose evil.

They knew, too, the difference between good and evil, yet they chose evil again and again in a violent quest to be like God.

This is a necessary consequence of our free - will: we are free to choose evil and cause suffering.

a perfect being can create a perfect world, inhabited by person's that have the free will to choose evil, which is what happened.

At that point, am I going to choose the evil of two lessers?

@ClassicSpyroFan This one has FIRE powers also... its ICE powers if you choose good karma path, its FIRE if you choose evil path.