In the mature apocalyptic of Daniel, the kingdom of God is that stone, not
cut by human hands, that falls on all earthly kingdoms and demolishes them, supplanting them by an everlasting kingdom (Dan.
The statue is broken to bits by a stone, not
cut by human hands; the eschatological kingdom of God brings to an end the succession of earthly kingdoms (Daniel 2).
Not exact matches
On the other
hand, there is no God of a religious tradition
cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in
human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized
by this transcendence.
On the other
hand,
by refusing we may harden our heart and
cut off the bonds of
human sympathy.
Some Neanderthal remains from Goyet have been worked
by human hands, as evidenced
by cut marks, pits and notches.
Every
cut is picked manually
by human hand, trimmed and carefully prepared in small batches to ensure extraordinary and perfect quality.
As she states: The inescapable imperfection of something
cut by hand (or drawn
by hand) has its own irregular, flawed beauty that gives the work a
human quality I find necessary and inevitable.
Inspired
by traditional folk tales from Russia and beyond, Ukrainian paper artist Eugenia Zoloto creates these gorgeous
hand -
cut works of art, which combine dream - like images of
humans and animals living in harmony.