Sentences with phrase «as image bearers»

If we believe in the worth and dignity of all human beings — both male and female — as image bearers of the living God, then we know full well the work that must be done.

The vision in the creation narrative in Genesis is that of women and men created to work together as image bearers of God and coworkers tasked with caring for the earth.

I long for a world where God helps us to do that and restores our place as his image bearers.

In the present field of discussion the only points of certainty seem to be these: (a) both creation and redemption establish the equality of men and women before God, as both image bearers and children of God through Christ (Gen. 1:26 - 27; Gal.

If the Trinity is real, various truths in other religions must be real as well, as these image bearers tune themselves to knowing God.

A woman who is held back, minimized, or downplayed is not walking in the fullness God intended for her as an image bearer (for instance, take a look at Carolyn Custis James» excellent discussion about being an «ezer kenegdo» in her book, «Half the Church.»)

Not exact matches

The Bible doesn't simply address man as a cognitive process but as a complex image - bearer who recognizes truth not only through categorizing syllogisms but through imagination, beauty, wonder, awe.

Humans, as God's image - bearers, are able to interact with God through any of these dimensions.

In departing from the clear teaching of the Church on our sexual identity, we do injury to our personal dignity as being male or female image - bearers of God and prevent ourselves from resolving the most fundamental question each of us strives to answer: «Who am I?»

We were, after all, created as God's image bearers, yet we've lost some of that image through our rebellion.

Nor is the special status that most people ascribe to humanity explained by the Judeo - Christian belief in humans as image - bearers of God.

Technically speaking, the hope is that I'd arrive at that conclusion because of having been trained in the school of thought that sees them as gifts from God, image - bearers, and that dying for another is to demonstrate and glorify the cross.

God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity as bearer of the divine image.

She calls us back to our truest identities as men and women: «The Hebrew connotation is that the creation of God's image bearers — a blessed male / female alliance with God at the center — is «emphatically,» or «exceedingly,» or «forcefully» good — the grand equivalent of a divine fist bump!»

Praying the Lord's Prayer in the midst of tragedy is a timely reminder of the unity we all share as image - bearers of God.

If we believe it right to defend the dignity of those created by God, we need to be consistent and protect our own dignity as image - bearers.

Each marriage is as unique as the image - bearers who entered into a covenant with each other.

When we teach men that they can't control themselves, we demean their dignity as image - bearers and give them a pre-emptive excuse to abuse others.

I am a Christian — much of why I am motivated to «fast from fashion» is because I believe that the messages having to do with clothing in our society are a scandal to the wide and inclusive love that God has for us as bearers of God's divine image.

Later, bioscientific works such as Gary Schneider's Genetic Self - Portraits (1997 — 1998) or Marc Quinn's A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston (2001)-- in which a sample of the sitter's DNA in agar jelly is mounted in stainless steel — took the bearers of identity to be images of chromosomes, enlargements of microscopic hair samples, retinal images, and even mounted DNA itself.

Since my paintings are not images, are not pictures, I can see that the conventions that define the «right» place for a painting relate to its original function as a bearer of images.