The reading presents giants as creatures whose combination of acute intelligence, evil will, and massive power makes ordinary human defense impossible.
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Evil will
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and prudent. And where the mind's acutest reasoning is joined to evil will and evil power, there are human beings can't defend themselves. His..."
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Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
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"...and prudent. And where the mind's acutest reasoning is joined to evil will and evil power, there are human beings can't defend themselves. His..."
"...they would not have arrived at the evil act if an evil will had not preceded it why did they do this evil act..."
"that's important to understand they were not tricked by the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start..."
"...rain as soon as it has climbed where cold unfolds his evil will which only seeks out evil conjoined with intellect and with the..."
"...the world, and the principle, the power, and the existence of evil will then cease. And this will be brought about by such means..."
"...is this moral truth where if you do evil onto others, evil will come onto you."
"...So he's done evil onto Patroclus. And because he's done that, evil will now come onto Achilles. Okay? So, yeah. So we think prophets..."
"...is by far the worst in Poland. Therefore it stands that evil will open from the north. Everything else will be revealed from there..."
"...Now, could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? For pride is the start of every kind of sin."
"...is in the world of today, psychopaths will always war. Only evil will war because that's just the structure of this universe. In this..."
"...So the concept here is karma, right? If you do evil, evil will come to you, okay? So it's important to maintain harmony. All..."
"Could anything but pride happen at the start of the evil will? Why did we disobey God? Why did we eat that fruit? Because..."
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