Sentences with phrase «better image of god»

That, I maintain, is not possible without a restored sense of sexual identity; a sense of what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, what it can mean to show together a better image of God.

I came across a sarcastic poster that sums up well the image of God one ends up with if they view a personified deity as behind forces of nature and natural disasters: http://www.patheos.com/community/exploringourmatrix/2011/08/27/the-connection-between-hurricane-irene-and-gay-marriage/

Yet a man's best is so marvelously revealed in Jesus Christ that he is the best picture, the best symbol, the best image of God.

Not exact matches

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

Creation is beautiful and good, and humanity upholds God's image within it; creation is fallen, evil, corrupt; creation can be, and will be, restored — that triune intuition of Christian faith provides a template of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's questions.

The good news that Jesus practiced and that mormonism malpractices is that spiritual man is always the image and likeness of God, who is all the life there is.

By giving up my sexuality to God, I mean I want God to transform it, as well as every part of me to his image.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

(2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine througod of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine throuGod, might not shine through.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

this is so much more real and fits so much better with the image of a kind and loving god... thumpers would have u believe that god is the angriest, most spiteful, micro controlling, bitter, nasty character ever put out to this world... we must remember that the god thing is supposed to produce caring, inclusion, peace and love ~ not murder, hatred, exclusion and bullying..

I guess its not their fault, perhaps atheists have a deeper understanding of evolution since there ancestors are apes and Christians well, are built in the image of God.

Perhaps that god did his best to make the God of Abraham in his own imagod did his best to make the God of Abraham in his own imaGod of Abraham in his own image.

«Satan, the god of [this system of things] has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4god of [this system of things] has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4:4)

it seems that many of us want to create a God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributGod in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributgod, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributGod and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributes.

For it to be designed implies there is a designer and to be in the image of God to be created and seen as being good meaning that in your truest sense of who you are, you are good and if that is brought to the for you can't help but do good — it being like breathing,

It is an integration of the various dimensions of the person into a well - balanced being; made in God's image, so that each dimension can be what it was created to beand assist the person in living an abundant life.

The Bible speaks about marriage and intercourse as an image of the church's relation to God — very intimate, deep and joyful, as well as truthful and faithful.

«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.

If I were trying to make up a sympathy sob story I would make up better details, more believable ones, than the grinding, boring, crushing, and banal reality of what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom linof what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom linOf God protecting their image and bottom line.

When creatures who are gifted as the image and likeness of God misuse love, corrupting what God made good, then the love of God goes to them to heal them.

In the earliest Christian images, Christ appears in different guises, often as a Good Shepherd, or like one of the youthful, savior gods from the Roman iconography of late antiquity.

It causes me to quickly forget that the referee who makes a bad call is still made in the image of a good God.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

t cotton i actually think you are right because our motivation is wrong generally it is to meet our own needs or wants like a parent he gives us what will help us mature spiritually that frustrates us.God is loving and caring and knows what is best for us a lot of our disapointment comes from a wrong image of who God is.brentnz

«I feel like part of being made in the image of God is that we have an ability to see that which is good.

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).

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

If one considers that such God - maligning thoughts as those in the image above spring from a common root (the supposed injustice of God), addressing that root would seem to be the best response.

Though revelation stands at the center and the proper study for the Jew is not simply man, but man confronted by God, we encounter the image of God when we encounter the Arnoldian best that has been thought and said, and we understand ourselves and others better when we confront the voice of the other.

But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention: sons of God, made in his image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.

When we are facing a fleshly weakness, but resist it and submit to the Spirit of God out of love for Him, God always works it together for good so that we are conformed to His image.

We seem to have a persistent habit, collectively as well as individually, of conceiving a * God * in our own image.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

I have been arguing that good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God, and that urbanism — for good reason — is a privileged symbol in the Christian imagination.

Good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of Good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4: 3,4 3 If, in fact, the good news we declare is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of Ggod of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of GodGod,

To establish justice on the basis of sectarian authority alone is to do violence to our very confession that all persons bear the image of God, and that all persons carry a knowledge of the good.

Well according to the Bible, which is the word of God as he breathed it and therefore not open to interpretation, He made Man in his image so he must be a Man.

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

It would be odd if a creature such as man and woman, made in the image of God to be creative and inventive, and made to be provident over our own earthly good, were unable to discover the natural laws of ordered liberty and fruitful creativity.

• 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).

He is the image of God the Father who does good works and heals people every day... including amputees.

Our revelations of God and purpose of life as expressed by the great thinkers today reflect the image of God in us as well.

«In the beginning, Adam was created in the image of God and lived in a dimension in which every herb and tree was for meat and it was «very good».

I quote from Process and Reality: «The image — and it is but an image — the image under which [God's creative working] is best conceived, is that of a tender care that nothing be lost.

I'm struck by the wisdom of the image — the inner dress being fundamental, like the heart, while the outer clothing, charity, comes from a heart that knows it needs God in order to do anything good.

There are other Latin patristic bridal mystics as well, and, contra Messrs. Clark and Schrader, they use the image of spiritual marriage to describe the individual believer's union with God.

and so if we're created in the image of God, it stands to reason that we are Spirits as well.

«Good Shepherd» to us means what we seen in a stained glass window, but in this country Good Shepherds come in all sizes, shapes, ages and colors — Men in jeans, boys in cowboy hats, a Navajo with lamb in hand keeping it from the coyotes — to Ezekiel, all are images of God.