Sentences with phrase «with evil in the world»

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright in Scripture and the Authority of God, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.»

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

This two-fold belief seems, prima facie, to be in conflict with the evil in the world.

It contrasts how religion tells us to deal with evil in the world, and how God deals with evil in the world.

According to Wright, «To speak of God's Kingdom is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.»

- It contrasts how religion tells us to deal with evil in the world, and how God deals with evil in the world.

The question is not whether the idea of God's goodness can be made consistent with the evil in the world granted certain other assumptions such as God's finitude.

He plays Gregg Hurwitz» script completely straight, and what could have been a story about a child unable to come to terms with evil in the world instead becomes a dehumanizing mess that rides its high concept straight to hell.

Not exact matches

Similarly in China, there are those who take advantage of every chance to paint the U.S. as a country with evil intentions toward China and the world.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Now I have peace and though this world burdens me with its evil every day, Ifind happiness in the simple things of Ya's creation.

The simplistic approach seems distracting to the real presence of evil in the world — similar to the red «devil» with the tail and pitchfork.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

With people like you we already have evil and darkness, we working our way out of it, go away, there's no place for you in this world.

Plotinus recast the Platonic unease with the material world in a straightforward manner: «The nature of bodies, insofar as it participates in matter, will be an evil» (Enneads, 1.8.4).

Considering that all these horrific things in the bible occur in close to 4000 years ago in a time and world culture you obviously can't be that familiar with makes you the perfect judge on how evil the bible is.

In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral evil currently under discussion are not able to present a better world, «the (classical) theist does not have to show that it was impossible for God to create a better set of world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).

At baptism, we are anointed with the Holy Spirit so that we may be soldiers of Christ in the world, so that we may fight the forces of sin and evil.

Through his years in the earthly hell of the Soviet prison system, to the publication of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichin 1962, and, later, the multivolume Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn challenged the world to look unblinkingly at the good and, with relentless specificity, the evil of which we are capable.

For the victim of war struggling to connect with a God who allows so much evil in the world, the bad news is that mankind's rebellion has turned the planet into battlefield; the good news is that God loves the world and has a plan to ultimately heal, restore, and redeem all of creation.

The immanence of God in the world implied in our metaphor raises the question of God's involvement with evil.

Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done in the world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any suffering impossible for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws in accordance with which everything should be ordered.

It does imply, however, that unlike God the king, the God who suffers with the world can not wipe out evil; evil is not only part of the process but its power also depends on us, God's partners in the way of inclusive, radical love.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

In the name of this theology (which is in part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the gooIn the name of this theology (which is in part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the gooin part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the gooin political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the gooin such action will necessarily be overruled by the good.

I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side of the world, and from morals; for there we encounter the suffering and evil in the world, which it is difficult to bring into harmony with an all «merciful and almighty God.

If there is free will in Heaven but no evil, that goes to show that God can in fact create worlds with both free will and no evil.

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»

I guess this is directed more at violent anti-abortionists and less towards you that is of the «live and let live» mindset, but what if with all the evil thats in the world, god is giving us an out by providing us with the cure and we're misinterpreting this and digging ourselves a deeper hole?

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

When Adam and Eve misused their wills in the Garden of Eden by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin entered into the world, and with it came death, decay, and destruction.

«When I think all the evil in the world, from terrorism, to disease, to famine, I find it horrifying that a man with the Pope's incredible power and influence can only focus on something as minor as gay marriage,» artist Kevin Sharkey, 47, told the website ClickLiverpool.com

The redefinition of omnipotence and omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.

Our best moral theories might seem to entail that nothing could justify God's having created a world with so much evil in it.

In this stage of precision, the metaphysical scheme has in an important, reformable way interpreted the final opposites of experience in terms of God and the world: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World..In this stage of precision, the metaphysical scheme has in an important, reformable way interpreted the final opposites of experience in terms of God and the world: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World..in an important, reformable way interpreted the final opposites of experience in terms of God and the world: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World..in terms of God and the world: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the Worlworld: «In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World..In our cosmological construction we are left with the final opposites, joy and sorrow, good and evil, disjunction and conjunction — that is to say, the many in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the World..in one — flux and permanence, greatness and triviality, freedom and necessity, God and the WorldWorld....

When I face arguments which confidently tell me that all must (metaphysically must) be for the best and then look at the incidence of evil in the world, my sympathies are with Voltaire in caricaturing the Leibnizian Dr. Pangloss.

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.

This argument is often argued with atheists... Evil why would a loving god allow «evil» to run rampant in our woEvil why would a loving god allow «evil» to run rampant in our woevil» to run rampant in our world.

Hart, who next year will be a visiting professor at Providence College, spoke with us about evil and its place in the world that God created and loves.

Futhermore, where experience is mixed, as with our experience of the world's good and evil, a priori reasoning can be of considerable importance in supporting our confidence that some supposed «felt concrete redemption is no illusion but an authentic experience of what really is (and perhaps even must be) the case.

Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.

This from reading a book written by men with an agenda to control the world with their blatherings, centuries of corrupt, evil popes leading to King James, who burned women at the stake and believed in the divinity of kings?

«The theology of love must seek to deal realistically with the evil and injustice in the world, and not merely to compromise with them.»

Why as a Christian, are you not standing up to this evil in this world with Prayers & Leadership, shining Gods light on their Darkness being executed in secret right now as the Global Agenda?

Others may say you are a romantic, naïve idealist who underestimates the power and extent of evil in the world and what is required to cope with it.

(he says god didn't create the world with evil and death in it till «man'turned away from him, as in worship me or I'm a gonna smack you upside the head boy which god did in his world) in my world, it was created, not sure how, big bang..

Choices may be made in the world which result in distortion or blockage; there are evils, to use the traditional word, which can and do interfere with the realization of a pattern that is good and right.

As Canon Andrew White (aka the vicar of Baghdad) affirms in his interview with us, real evil is very much alive in the world today.

Now in contrast with such healthy - minded views as these, if we treat them as a way of deliberately minimizing evil, stands a radically opposite view, a way of maximizing evil, if you please so to call it, based on the persuasion that the evil aspects of our life are of its very essence, and that the world's meaning most comes home to us when we lay them most to heart.