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How much of the evils should be referred to the one , and how much to the other , is the principal theoretic question which has to be resolved . Significantly for our present theme , Ezekiel insists that this renewing of the fruitfulness of the earth should provoke the people of Israel to remember and repent of their evil ways.7 Significant too is God ’ s further admonition that it is not for Israel ’ s own sake that these things will be done . And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight , and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden , and the tree of knowledge of good and evil . " Again , respect of persons , in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation , was a practice I had been much in the use of ; and this , being one of the vain customs of the world , introduced by the spirit of the world , instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of , and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another , who bear no real respect one to another ; and besides this , being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God , and which all of all sorts , who take upon them the Christian name , appear in when they offer their prayers to him , and therefore should not be given to men ; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing ; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it . To these great evils nothing more than very imperfect palliatives had seemed possible ; but Mr Hare 's system affords a radical cure . Nevertheless , Court 's book is well written and insightful and one can hear the influence of Frederick Douglass in his call to action : " Small evils quickly become large ones when nourished by institutions as powerful as modern corporations and not responded to by individuals . Our faith teaches us about good and evil , free will and responsibility . Revolutions are remedies , sour , yes , but sometimes the only remedies to correct evils . That this Logos , therefore , should confront on the cross humanity ’ s tragic efforts to foist upon the world an order of its own making and to wrest from God , by crucifying his Son , the prerogative to preserve the world and guide it to its fulfilment - that Christ should confront this evil at the greatest depths to which it may sink , establishes and confirms his sovereignty at the point of humanity ’ s most profound rebellion against it . Putting these two propositions into a shape more special to their present application ; human beings are only secure from evil at the hands of others in proportion as they have the power of being , and are , self-protecting ; and they only achieve a high degree of success in their struggle with Nature in proportion as they are self-dependent , relying on what they themselves can do , either separately or in concert , rather than on what others do for them .