His judgment
upon that evil out of context confuses those that do not know the scriptures in context.
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.
It is customary nowadays to look
upon evil as either the absence of good through ignorance or fear, or else as something which manifests itself through maladjustment of personality.
Apparently He will be involved with this justice and vengeance
upon evil when he returns (2 Thess.
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.
It will be like a resurrection of dead men's bones.9 The calamities the nation suffered dramatized, as it were, the just judgment of Almighty God
upon their evil courses; but within the judgment lay the mercy of God, with power to create anew; and that was why, beyond all hope, the nation revived.
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.
Here an eternal divine order prevails, here it does not rain both upon the just and upon the unjust, here the sun does not shine both upon the good and
upon the evil, here it holds good that only he who works gets the bread, only he who was in anguish finds repose, only he who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved, only he who draws the knife gets Isaac.
They swing the sword as God's ministers, bringing wrath
upon evil - doers (Romans 13:1 - 4).
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.
It has been told to me that God can not look
upon evil, so why does the beginning of the book of Job portray God and satan conversing?
Instead, it seems that what Habakkuk is saying is that God, by not seeming to do anything about evil, appears to be looking
upon evil with approval.
Travis (Johnny Orlando) and his sister, Whitney, visit their grandparents for the summer and stumble
upon the evil plan of a greedy land developer (Kelsey Grammer) to steal the land of the town's longtime residents.
Once
Upon An Evil — The Horned King is opening doorways between worlds.
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, presumably.
Stone Fish, who has visited the country twice on organized tours, added that «Visiting North Korea is a rare opportunity for Americans to humanize North Koreans,» beyond the national stereotype of a «cartoonishly
evil leader, nuclear weapons, and rows
upon rows of goosestepping soldiers.»
The temptation to believe that we are the Viceregent of the Almighty, charged with the thunderbolt of heaven, for the punishment of
evil - doers, is one of the subtle temptations by which the Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and sim
evil - doers, is one of the subtle temptations by which the
Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and sim
Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark
upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and simple.
He redeems us from our brokenness, delivers us from the
evil one, and bestows
upon us Eternal Life.
Live in Switzerland, where going against common sense is extremely frowned
upon as an objective
evil.
«Beyond Good and
Evil» and «Twilight of the Idols» deserve to be approached as radical attacks
upon dualism and mentalism.
Why still attack and mock God, because of some tangible person imposing their criminal will
upon you when you were warned of the
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.
Anyone who would inflict their religion
upon the masses through his political seat is
evil.
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 while conversion may not be looked
upon as
evil to one who is already converted, it is most definitely
evil to those who are told they must convert before they are considered good human beings.
Evil had become so great
upon the face of the earth, that a return to the pre-creation chaos was inevitable.
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.
... Those who make a great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of
evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes are
upon them, that watch for their halting; their character is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a great deal of reputation to lose.
At the end of the story the author explicitly speaks of «all the
evil that the Lord had brought
upon [Job]» (42:11).
In this post, I consider a question sent in 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.»
Instead, they pervasively and unashamedly drew
upon Jesus's nonviolent response to
evil as a model for believers to follow.
Whether or not abusers own up to the abuse, apologize publicly or privately, or even take a moment to seriously reflect
upon their past and present behaviors, something significant does occur when the
evil deeds of darkness are brought into the light.
And at the same time the anguish of some superhuman peril oppressed him, a confused feeling that the force which had swept down
upon him was equivocal, turbid, the combined essence of all
evil and all goodness.
Moreover, by no manner of emphasis
upon the importance of individuals could early Christians escape, any more than we can, the towering
evils of society at large.
Therefore, to become as «perfect» as our Heavenly Father, we must focus on the greater questions: How do we give perfect impartiality of blessings
upon those that are
evil and those that are good?
I wish no harm or
evil upon anyone; however, knowing that some sort of justice meted out would do wonders for my morale.
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 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.
If on the social group as a whole Yahweh's wrath was falling, the punishment was an inevitable consequence of the way individuals were thinking — «Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts».
Evil and Suffering are the rocks all systems crash
upon.
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.
At this moment God takes
upon himself the misery of this people, its shame, and the
evil that it commits.
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....
- LIE Atheism brought
upon the French Revolution, one of the most
evil events of all of history.