Sentences with phrase «upon every evil in»

The question, then, of apparent evil is not whether Whitehead's God builds upon every evil in the attempt to perfect the world and Godself.

Not exact matches

In my head, I saw the bank as an evil entity, having no mercy for a hard - working, widowed mom who had come upon hard times.

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.

Live in Switzerland, where going against common sense is extremely frowned upon as an objective evil.

Atheism makes claim that in our darkest hours we are the ones with the ability to move forward, that we can make those paths and not wait for a deity to come upon us and clear the land of its evils.

The fact is, that a good man who happens to yell the wrong name in his prayers is damned, while an evil man who calls genuinely upon the right name is saved.

And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic, evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!»

To expand upon that «logic» — our currency does indeed display «In God We Trust» on it... and money is the root of all evil.

His judgment upon that evil out of context confuses those that do not know the scriptures in context.

In this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can look upon sin and eviIn this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can look upon sin and eviin to me by a reader about whether or not God can look upon sin and evil.

«I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.»

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon iIn this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon iin creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon iin persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon iin the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon iin the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

Jesus called upon his hearer to break radically with the present evil aeon, and to rebuild his life in commitment to the inbreaking kingdom.

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

Facts will never render decisions between ill - conceived alternatives; and the meaning of such terms as omnipotence or goodness depends in second - type theism upon a number of conceptions which have not been clearly considered in the classic discussions (such as the marvelous one in Hume's Dialogues) of the relations of such terms to the facts of evil.

The dreadful evil, the crime committed, God himself takes it upon himself and will manifest it in his Son Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

In between the self - righteous avoidance of the evil of others and the acceptance and willing of evil lies the difficult path of taking evil upon oneself without being corrupted by it and transforming it into love.

One might almost say that what «determines» God's action in a given circumstance is that God takes upon himself the evil and the misery of man.

A crucial judgment that the church must make is whether to reject their offerings because of their ambiguous character and radical demands or to seize upon them as an occasion for repentance for that in our history which now appears evil to so many sensitive critics.

= NO Book of Jasher tells us that all the men who walked in the ways of the Lord died in those days, before the Lord brought the evil upon man which he declared, for this was from the Lord, that they should NOT see the evil which the Lord spoke of concerning the sons of men.

The evil of the world is that those elements which are translucent so far as transmission is concerned, in themselves are of slight weight; and that those elements with individual weight, by their discord, impose upon vivid immediacy the obligation that it fade into night.

Insofar as our own culture participates in — indeed, is founded upon — structures of systemic evil, a happy outcome of our difficulties, as opposed to other people's difficulties, ought not be expected in the Christian view.

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.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.

When an enemy wishes evil upon our heads, we pray for something bad to happen to them in return.

The whole weight of the evil that was resident in the situation fell upon Him.

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.»

Not the conception or intellectual perception of evil, but the grisly blood - freezing heart - palsying sensation of it close upon one, and no other conception or sensation able to live for a moment in its presence.

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.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

He called upon the Church to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»

Third, Christians were experiencing wave upon wave of valid criticism for their historical roles in promoting such evils as anti-Judaism, colonialism, racism, patriarchalism, anthropocentrism, homophobia, and sexual repression.

Whether heeding rational life or the creative will, both Whitehead and Nietzsche feel called upon to transform the worldly character of time and becoming in order to overcome the evil of time and to explain the finally good life.

He echoes Mason by taking his defense from the Old Testament, presenting the English — typically — as the put - upon underdog in a crusade against Evil:

The first is in the destruction which He visits upon intolerable evil.

Rauschenbusch presumed the solidarity of humankind, and focused upon the effects of that solidarity in the transmission of sin such that each generation is predisposed to evil.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

Each new event rests back upon and is an expression of, while it also provides genuine fulfillment for, the originative and final purpose which is divine — in one sense, even the «evil» occasion has this reference, although God is not «responsible» for it.

In this picture redemption of evil follows from and depends upon redemption of the sin for which the evil was the punishment.

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

First of all, we may say that in our personal lives we are called upon to resist the powers of death, disease, and evil.

God could also mediate the free actions of such souls to one another, taking care to harmonize any potential conflicts by means of conceptual supplementation, thus overcoming any evil consequent upon the free actions of many actualities acting in concert.

Such hope prohibits other worldly withdrawal, but calls upon us to redouble our efforts to achieve the good in this world with all its ambiguities for good and evil.

God has addressed his messages to generations through chosen one's to remind and warn those evil doers and the ones who are astray to come back to the truth but when messanger gives up on his people God would bring upon them heavy natural disasters, losses and grieves... there among any religions or branches of religions you will find people worship and do good deeds for the sake of God and would do all could to raise his name and belief... there are others who careless for it as a religion or faith but taking advantage of the posts for their own personal vast interest or the gangs interests as named by you... «Those are as a Walves using the Sheeps Skins in Disguise for hunting and feeding its greeds».

45So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionIn political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionin human individuals and institutions.

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.