Sentences with phrase «against images of god»

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on creaturely puppets.

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on the creaturely puppets.

Whitehead also reacted against that image of God, but he thought a quite different image was possible, and his reflection on creaturely decision led him to affirm it.

Not exact matches

2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies (Irrelevent.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

Surrounding this were the «waters of chaos», the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image «of anything that is in the waters under the earth»).

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

An aberration against the very nature of man who was created in the image of God.

In the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the council.

Irenaeus championed this understanding explicitly: «The Father of all» [47] is no less than «He who is impassible» (Against Heresies, 2.12.1).30 For Clement of Alexandria, this is true both for the nature of God (Stromata, 2.16) and for the highest achievable good of those who would truly embody the divine image: «Endurance also itself forces its way to the divine likeness, reaping as its fruit impassibility» (2.20).

For the state without due process to repress that right is a grave offense against human rights, a disfigurement of the image of God in humans, and a serious step in social retardation.

I'm guessing, as Willow implies, that you are subconsciously rebelling against an image of a threatening, fearsome, judgmental, vindictive and hurtful god, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were boGod is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were born.

It goes against what the Bible says about us being created in the image of God, and in the Bible we are called children of God.

He sinned against God, and as a result, along with the image of God, was also stamped with the mark of death (Gen 2:17; 3:23).

Thankfully, some Christian leaders are recognizing the level of hate against Muslims has to stop — for the love of God and people made in His image.

I am not concerned either with graven images or the kind of idolatry against which so many of my profession rail: the substitution of something like wealth or success for God.

• Intentional physical violence of any kind against a person made in the image of God solely for entertainment and recreation can not be justified (some pro-lobbyists and Christians cite the Just War thesis, which is at best woefully naive).

The contest of God against Satan is based upon the image of warfare.

(Goux, in Les Iconoclastes, needs of course to find a psychoanalytical basis for the biblical prohibition against representing God and adoring images.

He is against an assertion of self which distorts or even substitutes the image of God in man and in society.

How can this universal actuality of sin against God in whose image we are created be understood?

This implies, however, that Satan is not dualistically conceived, but images the dark side of God himself, and that monotheism does not mean unity against multiplicity but the unity of multiplicity within the Godhead.

But we must not simply dismiss the images of the prison or the fire; instead we should set them against the understanding that nothing unworthy can enter the presence of God.

But my hope is that every Christian who has decided to vote for Trump has, at some point, spoken out against his comments regarding sexual assault, immigrants, women, and additional issues that defile all people who are made in the image of God.

The soldier is sacred, made in the image of God, and I can not think what it does to a person to commit acts of war, to lift up arms against another, to kill another human being.

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.

1 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me 2 - Thou shalt not make a graven image 3 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain 4 - Thou shalt remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy 5 - Thou shalt honor thy Father and thy Mother 6 - Thou shalt not murder 7 - Thou shalt not commit adultery 8 - Thou shalt not steal 9 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor 10 - Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house, or his car, or his wife, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor

It projects and recaptures Dalit and Adivasi images of God, their views of God's relatedness to God's creation, their visions of the future, their hurts and aspirations, and their ability to hope in spite of the odds against them.

If we don't remember that the battle is not against the flesh (as in other human beings) but is against the spiritual forces of darkness, aren't we at risk of diminishing the image of God in the other person?

Since I have been created in the image of God I am forced to conclude that a Holy God would not commit such unimaginably unjust atrocities against those who simply lost some heavenly lottery and did not receive this «gift» of faith.

John Cena, hero to man and beast and created in God's own image, has carved out a niche for himself since WrestleMania of putting his United States Championship on the line against all comers and having spectacular matches every single week.

In images that address a silent God against the terrifying beauty of nature, Scorsese again proves himself an essential filmmaker.

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.

Do Not Commit Murder or Injury The edict against murder, and the punishment for this transgression, is stated in Genesis 9:6: «Whoever sheds the blood of man, among man, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God, He made man.»