Sentence examples for god of evil from inspiring English sources

Parallel legends exist in the figures of Antichrist and of Ahriman, the Persian god of evil.

"The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made," wrote Roland Barthes, the French philosopher, pioneer of semiotics, sometimes windbag and full-time bicycle racing fan.

The devil idea is supposed to exonerate God from complicity in evil, and it could do that in ancient Persian dualism, where the God of good and the God of evil are equally powerful.

This lump of lead replaces "Joan of Arcadia," an entertaining show that actually grappled with issues of life and death and the existence of God and of evil; the explanation that Leslie Moonves, the chairman and C.E.O. of CBS, gave when he cancelled "Joan" was "I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God".

In the 1980s, Alvin Plantinga presented a version of the free will defence which, he argued, demonstrated that the existence of an omnipotent benevolent God and of evil are not inconsistent.

It may seem obvious that neither can survive: that once the operations of creaturely wills are subordinated to God's will, libertarian freedom disappears, and with it any hope of absolving God of moral evil.

Griffin argues that traditional theism makes God the source of evil because God's will establishes the general principles of the universe (2004, 37).

Another strategy redefines the nature of God or the nature of evil: God is not really all-powerful, for example, or evil is really illusory.

The philosopher Josiah Royce, whom Miles does not mention, labored at a theodicy — the formal term for the justification of God's tolerance of evil — holding thatwhen we suffer God suffers, too.

The second, "the holiness problem," is raised by the critic who would argue that God's intimate causal entanglements with the world make God the cause of evil.

The third approach emphasizes the "cognitive distance" between human understanding and God's will, noting that humans cannot know in detail what the justification of God's permission of evil might be.