Sentences with phrase «express image of god»

Jesus was the brightness and express image of God the Father.

For when our life expresses the image of God and is in touch with the infinite, life - giving, self - fulfilling love of God, when God is the source and goal of our deepest desire, then and only then do we children of God live out creation's purpose.

Not exact matches

For a Christian, the natural world provides a medium to express and even discover the image of God.

The scene of the Cratchets welcoming a reformed Scrooge to their family hearth is more than an image for Christmas cards; it is an embodiment of man's desire for God expressed in familial love.

Blessed are us who express our inexpressible gratitude to God by giving to those made in the image of God.

This also means that, flowing from Mary's role in God's plan, all womanhood is sacred and sacramentally (physically and spiritually) expresses the whole created world's call to co-operate with God in bringing God's children to birth and maturity in the life of God in the image of Jesus.

But, of course, the way we image God is an image that expresses our distinctive history and experience.

And when we reject the desires of gay Christians to express their sexuality within a lifelong covenant, we separate them from our covenantal God, and we tarnish their ability to bear his image.»

First, we come to realise that our vocation, our mission in the body of Christ, is also our way of expressing God's image and acquiring God's likeness.

In both genders being «made in the image of God,» we understand that the fullness of God's personhood is expressed in not only in masculinity, but also in femininity.

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.

If some Westerners find the images of gods off - putting, they may also express surprise at finding that the lingam, the male organ, is the focus of worship in many temples dedicated to Siva, the third god of the Hindu trinity.

Religion in human life is the voice which expresses that image of God in us.

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.

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

At the heart of Christian faith is the figure of Jesus Christ as «the Express Image» of God.

Images are incapable of expressing anything at all about God.

In this sense God is incarnated in every religious tradition through every image or symbol which effectively expresses its deepest response to God's leading, although the Christian can confess that for him Christ, the incarnation of God, is supremely exemplified in Jesus.

The yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the experience of physical longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.

Christ was the «Son,» «appointed heir of all things,» «by whom also God made the worlds,» — being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person,» «upholding all things by the word of his power.»

While Silence «s Rodrigues ultimately renounces his faith to alleviate the suffering of Japanese Christians, he does so in direct accordance with the will of God expressed by the image of Christ Jesus that appears before him.

Paul's whole conception of man — his creation in God's own image with the law of God written in his heart, his losing battle with a demonic enemy, the shameful captivity in which he is now held and the doom of death which awaits him — this whole conception, as well as the despair of one who awakes to the realities for which the conception stands, is expressed in the words with which Paul ends what we know as the seventh chapter of Romans:

The author of Hebrews says that Jesus is the exact representation of God, the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:3).

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.

But if Christ and his community of «creative transformation» (Cobb) are an embodiment of God's love in the world, and therefore exert causal efficacy within it, they will tend to produce the kinds of changes in the world expressed in some biblical images of the eschaton.

When we give to assist others, we are expressing that solidarity with all people which comes from recognising our common dignity as human persons made to the image and likeness of God.

These are only some among the many pictures which Christians were already using in the first century to express their belief that God encountered men through the acts and words of Jesus; that in the end it was not merely possible but necessary to say that Jesus is God, not only that he is the image or mirror of God; and that Christians may and should pray to God through him (which means, to pray to God as made known in Jesus) and even pray to Jesus as God.

And its end or goal is that men and women shall realize and be enabled to express their God - intended potentialities as they are being «made toward the image of God,» in cooperation with and sharing in the divine Love.

i wonder could that have something to do with the fact that your religion has no image of what your god was suppose to look like, or is it more along the lines your god can only express itself through modern images that the whole of your faith have imprinted into your minds?

And pity humanity, ever finding fresh ways to express its depths of depravity, and desperately in need of redemption by the God whose image we repeatedly deface in our inhumanity to one another.

The image of God in man has been defaced, so that there remains only an awareness of God's power and law, and therefore of condemnation and wrath; but there is not in unregenerate man any power to know, express or share the love which alone can restore him to his true humanity.

In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has created.

Colossians 1:16 says, ``... by him were all things created...» Consider Hebrews 1:1 - 3: «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;» You see, by Jesus Christ the worlds were made, and by Jesus Christ all things are upheld.

This assertion derives from the clue of Genesis 1:26 that the image of God in us is expressed in that we are created male and female.

I assume they cut this out at the behest of the leagues in question for brand - image reasons, but I'm happy that 2K Sports seemed to find another, and perhaps better, way of expressing, «God, your team is so shitty.»

It is my desire to utilize the creative process of watercolor to express God's gifts through images of design and color.

Learning to appreciate and respect the beliefs of their spouse and how they uniquely express God's image within themselves is fundamental for growing together in this arena.