What we fail to do if we could not do it, or do
with evil consequences if we could not foresee or avoid them, may be tragic loss but it is not sin.
Not exact matches
But in order to be true to Himself and also true to what we are, the confrontation
with evil and all its
consequences must be played out in the terrible drama of Calvary by God the Son who is also the Son of Man.
Your god created everything including «
evil», supposedly
with the full knowledge of the
consequences... so what you are in effect saying, is god wanted the holocaust to happen, since we would gain some small knowledge because of it.
who innocently suffers the
consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify
with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our
evil.
If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser
evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring
with it very deleterious
consequences.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree
with you about this
evil thing going around the earth... this
evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner
with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking
with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the
consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
Because they were concerned
with their own impotence in good works and
with the harm they were doing to others, they were not less altruistic than those who were concerned only
with doing good, and inattentive to the
evil consequences of many good works.
It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most serious
evil consequences and is hardest to reckon
with.
Nor was this asserted without regard for the patent presence of
evil, both in man himself and in those recalcitrant, negative, retarding, occasions,
with their
consequences, which anybody
with his eyes open must admit.
When God created humanity
with the freedom to go against His will, this freedom necessitated the possibility that history would go bad if we went against His will, which is exactly what happened in Genesis 3, and the negative
consequences of this decision are felt in Genesis 4 when Cain murders his brother, in Genesis 5, where the phrase «and he died» is repeated over and over and over, and then in Genesis 6 when people become so
evil that the destruction of all mankind becomes inevitable and God steps in to save and rescue Noah and his family.
One main
consequence of locating
evil with either nature or culture is that it makes the human problem something outside the human will.
If Griffin has really discovered a flaw in what lam calling the «standard view» of omnipotence, this would have important negative
consequences for Christian theology generally and especially for the way in which it has dealt
with the traditional problem of
evil.
And yet this divine esse is good because it not only makes ordinary goodness to be really good but because it also makes ordinary
evil to be really
evil in a real world
with real
consequences.
The reality of death as a fact: the inescapable element of decision and the
consequences in searching appraisal: the social or communal nature of human existence, coupled
with the honest recognition that no man is in and of himself a perfect agent of the purpose of God and the love of God: the joy of fulfillment
with one's brethren in the imperishable reality of God: and the terrible character of
evil — these were values which the older scheme somehow affirmed and expressed.
It came as a natural
consequence of the great
evil that was upon the earth, and specifically in response to the
evil of the sons of God having children
with the daughters of men.
Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically
evil, Wright details some of the problematic
consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense
with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of
evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..
Similarly, no logical mistake is made by a utilitarian who thinks that the only
evil is pain, that at a certain stage a fetus can not feel pain, and thus that abortion is obviously OK
with regard to that fetus (though any short - or long - term painful
consequences for his or her mother would still need to be considered before approving of abortion).
The only unintended
consequence is that you, the
evil people who want to ensure gays are treated as legal inferiors will actually have to treat gay people
with the same, basic level of respect you'd give any other human being.
There never seem to be any real stakes: good battles
evil with no actual
consequence.
«And if you're raised in an environment of good and
evil, a very real hell, moral
consequences, that stays
with you your whole life.»
The year is 1879, and the small town of Rose Creek has been invaded by an
evil mining baron named Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), who presents the townspeople
with an ultimatum: accept his paltry offer to buy their land or stay and suffer the
consequences when he returns in three weeks.
The book becomes an allegory for the
consequences of flirting
with evil.
The events leading up to her sinfulness, along
with the
consequences of her
evil deeds, are the driving forces behind this suspenseful tale.
Is it something innate, or a result of destiny and circumstance?Delve into the minds and spirits of saints and sinners alike
with a collection of stories that explore the call toward good or
evil — and the
consequences of answering it.
The line between good and
evil in the DC Universe became blurred in Injustice: Gods Among Us,
with the story seeing Batman and Superman at odds after a despicable trick by the Joker led to deadly
consequences.
Today is the day guys, The
Evil Within's second DLC «The
Consequence» is now available and you can check out the trailer to go along
with launch day below.
I'm an old man now dealing
with the
consequences of a lifetime smoking habit but I can assure you that my grandmother warned me about the
evils of smoking for good health and the expression «coffin nails» predates the 50's.
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grain represents a new form of human
evil,
with consequences possibly for greater and longer lasting than any past wrongdoing inflicted by men against their fellow human beings.»