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The church believes the ultimate example of God permitting evil for the sake of a greater good lies in Jesus' death. God permits us sinners to author the crucifixion of Jesus by our sins, [78] and God permitted the sinful actions of Pontius Pilate, the Pharisees, and the other sinners involved in Jesus' crucifixion, [79] for the sake of what ...
One standard of sufficient reason for allowing evil is by asserting that God allows an evil in order to prevent a greater evil or cause a greater good. [145] Pointless evil, then, is an evil that does not meet this standard; it is an evil God permitted where there is no outweighing good or greater evil. The existence of such pointless evils ...
The phrase "fear and trembling" is frequently used in New Testament works by or attributed to Paul the Apostle (painted here by Peter Paul Rubens).. Fear and trembling (Ancient Greek: φόβος και τρόμος, romanised: phobos kai tromos) [1] is a phrase used throughout the Bible and the Tanakh, and in other Jewish literature.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 (KJV) And that the consequence for sin at the day of judgment when God will judge both the living and the dead when He appears is death, not burning forever. God's gift is eternal life, very different from the penalty of sin:
Therefore, the devil is only able to pursue evil as long as God allows. Evil has no ontological reality, but is defined by deficits or a lack of existence, in Origen's cosmology. Therefore, the devil is considered most remote from the presence of God, and those who adhere to the devil's will follow the devil's removal from God's presence.
A religious almanac under the name "Orthodoxy or death!" was published from 1997 to 1999. [3] A number of Orthodox political organisations in Russia also use the term, namely the Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers. [4] Its usage has been opposed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, who said in a 2009 to not trust individuals using it. [5]
During the usual rendition of “God Bless America” as part of the seventh-inning stretch, a few fans draped a large banner from an upper deck that read, “Trump or Death.” The red banner had ...
The Christian Flag, which represents all of Christendom, has a white field, with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton. In conventional vexillology , a white flag is linked to surrender, a reference to the Biblical description Jesus ' non-violence and surrender to God's will .