Sentences with phrase «with evil thoughts»

2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, «You sit here in a good place,» while you say to the poor man, «You stand over there,» or, «Sit down at my feet,» 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Satan may inspire him with evil thoughts.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of him who draws the carriage.

Not exact matches

And the irony is that those with religion think that atheists are evil — even though atheists don't need the fear of hell or reward of heaven to be good people.

Some «West - Coast Staussians» are thrilled with Ryan because they think he's bought into and understands well the Founders good / Progressives evil narrative.

However, it took a lot people thinking of Jews as subhuman or, in your term «roaches» for the evil ones to get away with it.

My deconversion was a long process, and it had almost nothing to do with what I now believe to be the evil of religion — it was about what I thought to be true, and what there seemed to be evidence for.

its a curse you should have though about it after what you did to the Midianites Yahweh is an evil war god bent only on destruction he thought he could get away with attacking Asherah and Baal, then steal the land on which their bound to.

I think my question to those of you who couple evil atheism with evolution, the big bang, and climate change is: how can we as scientists even start trying to inform you about the details of what you are arguing against if you automatically presume everything we say is a blasphemous lie?

As far as the case for religion being the evil that athiest think it is, history is proof that religion has little to do with evil and more than anything else.

Cross told Premier how Christians should approach the issue: «From Christian point of view I don't think we should veer away from the fact that there is evil going on that there is sin and that we need to be prepared to step in into that and deal with it.

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

Since God dwells in us, I do not think that God is going to share His dwelling place with an evil spirit.

I don't think most people fully grasp how many people have been killed, tortured, and persecuted by people who just decided with no evidence that something about those people was evidence of evil.

I think interaction with a Narcissist (from my personal experience) is the closest thing to evil I will ever know.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

This is shallow, reductive thinking, and again points to a somewhat irrational preoccupation among evangelicals with sexuality as the root of all that is evil or good.

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.

I was not demolished by the evil that I was exposed and passively lived with in the name of religion, I stayed too long thinking I could convert him by being «good».

The most dangerous prayer I pray (from time to time) is Psalm 139, «search me heart and thoughts, fin out if there is any evil in me...» I pray this with nervous expectation because I realised Im not very keen to always know whats really in my heart, God brings out things I would never associate with myself, things that I need to throw out, its horrifying but so refreshing in the long run.all these prayers bring painful results but like a colonic irrigation procedure (which I imagine is highly uncomfortable) the result is so worth it.thanks for this post.

It is worth pointing out in response that anyone who thinks Christians have never grappled with the problem of evil can never have noticed that the crucifix is the central symbol of Christian faith.

The pastor preaches frequently with illustrations from Star Trek and all I could think was of the Borg, being a mindless collective run by an evil megalomaniac.

«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.

We have seen in an earlier lecture that the presence of «evil» is not for a moment denied in such thought; neither is there any minimizing of the reality of its effect in hindering the on - going of creative occasions, with the dreadful results that inevitably follow.

She was extremely devious and evil for no reason other than to inflict her control, with her only reservation being whether she thought she could get away with it.

«Having faith in Christ does not equate with being good»... I think my position is that Christians are particularly hung up on «good» and «evil»... in ways that don't make much sense often times.

And all the Christians haters of whom think that because people take a stand against what THEY think is right you are not better then they for calling them «haters, evil etc.» because they do not agree with your position.

For a very long time of concerted thought, it was my belief that «evil» was simply the random egotistical aggregation worldwide of personal weaknesses, mostly to do with fear, pain, greed or just for some an innate bastardry.

RELIGIOUS PEOPLE THAT THINK YOU ARE EVIL BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM OR YOU DO NT ACCEPT THAT WHAT THEY BELIVE.

I think the voodoo maven cast an evil spell on my neighbor, you think he suffered through imaginative autosuggestion when he learned about the doll with its pin.

With an «everything» deity you have opposing forces... good / evil, hatred / love etc etc, to me, this would make it impossible for said deity to do anything, it would create as fast as it destroyed, it would love you one second and then hate you before the thought of love was completed.An everything style deity would have no compulsion to create simply because it is «everything», it needs no justification, no worship.

I don't think it's possible to imagine a more evil character than one who could do away with the eternal suffering of hell yet allows it to continue.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

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.

Christian Century reviewers also disagreed: Samuel Terrien thought that J. B. presented «modern man's reaction to the problem of evil without the category of faith in a loving God» (January 7, 1959, p. 9); Tom F. Driver found the play afflicted with «a sort of theological schizophrenia,» divided between its religious and humanistic dimensions (January 7, 1959.

If it is the latter, then maybe you should think about painting a picture of a local church as you see it with its current evil influences, then explain why you think these influences are of the enemy.

I don't think you are so bigoted as to conflate religion with evil David.

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.

Buber's early essays on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for personal wholeness, for the realization of truth in life, and for the joining of spirit and of basic life energies which consistently appears in all of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element of his thought, his attitude toward evil.

Her thought is analogous to the Marxist mythology which identifies evil with the bourgeoisie, the past, and identifies good with the proletariat, the future; Miller identifies evil with the parents and good with the children.

He speaks of the evil urge in connection with «the uplifting of sexuality,» and he identifies alien thoughts and the evil urge with imagination and fantasy.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

Let sanguine healthy - mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

Ha Ha Ha, A member of the cult of Jehovahs Witness who also perverted the bible with their NWT and evil corrupt founder Charles Taze Russell who remember was a pedophile, sold magic wheat and healing clothes and thought the pyramids told of the «invisible» return of Christ in 1914 putting down and saying a Mormon is wrong, your just as nuts.

Disciples name evil for what it is; they move beyond thinking that everyone has to understand their authority and what they're saying, and they persevere with the message.

In it he found a rejection of the «true conception of substance,» a false view of evil, and a conception of God which does honor neither to God nor logic.2 And, like Sheen, Wyndam Lewis in England identified Whitehead's conception of God with that of Samuel Alexander and found it wholly inadequate as a resource for Christian thought.3

To the degree that this happens, relational thinking can drift away from the radically personalized encounters of Jesus with sin and evil, and thus lessen its appropriateness as a Christian theology.