Sentences with phrase «which perverts»

But his situation is such that he feels this most intensely; and in consequence he finds himself possessed by a tendency which makes him rest content (save in moments of deep awareness) with the lesser «goods», with the immediately obtainable goods, a tendency which perverts his best instincts, and which prevents him seeing things «steadily and whole».

Christian thought throughout history has held that any government which perverts these ends is acting ultra vires, in violation of its delegated authority.

Obviously here is the problem with this nonsensical illogic that is Christianity, which a perverted form of a Jewish heresy tainted by Greco Roman religion and culture.

God had given him a certain amount of power and authority which he perverted and wanted to exalt himself above God... rather than «just» being the Angel of God.

Not exact matches

The classy thing for this failed emperor to do would be to step down, but he probably cares more about his reputation or worse, he has some perverted sense of duty to the company which he delusionally believes needs him.

Galations1: 6 - 12 6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

You are an obedient member of a perverted godless society, with lots of godless perverted girlfriends that all likely contracept and fornicate, which makes you popular with them.

9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

What these gay and secular groups want is for us believers not to stand for what believe and believe the way do, which is perverted.

Attempting to pervert the facts, which is only possible because a human being is not omniscient is like attempting to pervert creation.

We infiltrated the church first, which is why all those perverts are showing up in churches before anywhere else.

And guess which religion is trying hardest to pervert the American political system into a theocracy?

Romanism has perverted the teachings of the Bible for its own devices, and it took a bloody reformation from godly men to restore that which Satan has tried so desperately to destroy.

It's obvious pervert alert is a closeted gay which is why they lash out at the very thing they fear the most — It's time for pervert alert to come out of the closet.

And the political and perverted way in which his writings were immediately used to supercede Jesus» teachings became the backbone of the early church, thus rendering it perverted and corrupt from the very beginning.

Given his contemporary world, in which the elements of play were being perverted and misused for totalitarian ends, he called his contemporaries back to an awareness of play authentically conceived.

That we pervert the image of God in ourselves when we do not love that which is beneath us is the critical spiritual insight of St. Francis of Assisi and of Albert Schweitzer.

And those whose labor produced the fruits to be offered must, in order to sustain the life thanks for which the fruits are offered, pervert physical life, by destroying its continuity.

Idolatry leads to pride, which is very destructive and terrible in perverting relations between human beings.

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

«I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

I am going to DEMAND that you specify WHICH scripture I have perverted even though I have provided ZERO scriptural claims to back up my claims of biblical support for my view in the first place.

His fruit is spoiled, he promotes other relegions, he assists in the murdering of babies, he perverts marriage which God set up.

I have contended for some time now, that the Gospel just remains too good to be true and so with a little help from the enemy of our Souls, we pervert it and Rob it of its true Joy and the Freedom for which Christ suffered and died to set us Free!

It can thus mislead one to the opinion that God is an «idea» which only through men becomes «reality» and further to the hopelessly perverted conception that God is not, but rather becomes — in man or in mankind.

Jesus, some say, preached a simple message of love and brotherhood which was perverted by Paul with his legalism and intellectualism ¯ justification, predestination, and all that.

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

In those days, not least in the thinking of men like St. Thomas Aquinas, the material world was regarded as a good thing, although wrongdoing of various sorts had distorted and perverted it in the forms in which actually we experience it.

They longed to belong to something, and thus arose the new solidarities, which are of so perverted a kind as to menace the future of the human race.

Which is why we must fight when we see people attempt to pervert the laws of this country.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

While I can not say the same of porn which depicts a real act in a perverted way, namely a fantasy storyline / plot.

But the products which come from the altars of this modern idolatry — the dividends, the privileges, the status, the struggle — are of such a sort that it is difficult to partake of them without becoming involved in the whole system of misplaced faith and perverted morality.

Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

Its a ploy that was used to try and get people to be good help others and show them love and compassion which was then perverted by organized religion to control people and teach hate.

We see however that the will to belong can be perverted into absolute hatred and destructiveness of anyone or anything which threatens the security of our belonging.

There can be no sin without love, either love perverted, love distorted, or, and here we peer into a deeper depth, love destroyed by a revengeful unlove which turns against life itself.

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

If anything you and your ilk are bigots against the Truth, which you want to pervert, for your own agenda!

Next, we will try to discern any Satanic influence in this area, which has caused it become twisted or perverted away from the original purpose.

Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.

Everything has been perverted by the means which this perfect one has chosen to actualize the wisdom, beauty, and greatness that God has given him.

-- to gratuitousness and to the disinterested character of love: The contractual mentality and its multifarious products, such as the notion of «interest», have deeply perverted Western cultures, which now find it hard to rediscover the selfless, gratuitous nature of love.

The term has come into common use for that personality sickness in which one derives perverted pleasure from the endurance of pain.

Holy Spirit, as for feminine energy in Holy Triangle, is now moving forward to heal not only the church, yet the PLANET all together Pope is so amazing, and all had been propesiazed, as we are in times of much real miraculous awakening Coming forward is this very Feminine energy, that is ready to take out the weak, pervert links, beings that make HER, the church which was always made to be the most peaceful place to connect with Highesness

Whether one acts in such a situation justly, or by inaction perverts justice, is entirely determined by the way in which the neighbor's «house» is contemplated in the mind.

Mormons teach a perverted gospel of Jesus (Jesus and Satan are brothers, men can become gods which is the biggest blasphemy in the Bible and the root of all sin according to Genesis and the first commandment, polygamy is acceptable when Paul said that each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband, and more) and Romney fits the description of the man whom the people believe is a good man, but who is responsible for closing down U.S. companies and sending jobs overseas, having off - shore bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, etc..