Sentences with phrase «glory of creation»

In Genesis chapter 1, the presentation of the six days of creation is not capricious but progressive: from non-living matter, to living plants and animals, culminating in Adam and Eve, as the glory of creation.

He then traces the path to Jesus Christ as the fulfilment of all Science and all Religion, as the crowning glory of Creation.

Just as secular art in one sense gives glory to God by virtue of its very existence as it contributes to the manifold wonder and glory of creation — even if the artist does not acknowledge the creator — so also Christian art which intentionally points to God contributes to the beauty of creation and can be perceived as beautiful even to unbelief.

Yet if we truly believe that the Incarnation is the crowing glory of creation, of history and of humanity, then we have no need to fear that Church teaching will somehow rob us of our intellectual initiative or suppress our true selves.

Not only in the glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special characteristics of his love, but also in sending us a human model of it in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.

There are so many things to learn about God and His desires for us, that getting caught up on the Holy Trinity and explaining it as something scientific can take us away from the glory of His creation.

Science is never settled and we will never know all of the glories of the creation.

Not exact matches

Beginning with the creation of all matter and energy known to man down to the Garden all was created for the redemption of souls to the glory of God.

Jesus did not die to liberate us from norms for living but to save us from the power of sin so that we might live for his glory in his good creation empowered by the Holy Spirit.

And even though this universe is meticulously designed, God having infinite power did not exhaust or deplete any of His power to create it nor to sustain it, and rather than losing or wasting anything, this creation adds to His glory.

The entire cosmos groans for its redemption, yet all creation declares the glory of God.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Given these historical errors and oversights in both our biblical interpretation and our artistic engagement, we must support efforts to study and present a true, uncompromising picture of both the glory of God's creation and the depths of human folly.

Romans 8:20 - 22 — For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

He still wants all of His children to reflect Him and His glory to all creation.

This is quite a journey for the atheist mind to make, but through it all we can show a wonderful continuity of principle in all the works of God from creation to Christ in his final glory.

A theology based upon Whiteheadian thought differs radically from Thomistic theology in the way in which it describes the concepts of creation, grace, glory and the kingdom.

However, through the mercy of God and to the praise of his glorious grace, the mystery of his purpose in Christ is upheld by the Son, who takes upon Himself the burden of healing and reintegrating our broken nature and vindicating the glory of God in creation.

The order of creation and the glory of God needs to be re-established by some monumental act of human nature, not just of «kindness» but of absolute innocence, goodness and selflessness.

In Christ, what all of creation is ordered towards, that is the praise and glory of God in a communion of love, finds its centre and its highest meaning.

All the radiance of the glory of God was demonstrated in His creation.

The quotation from Romans 8 on the project's homepage — «For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God» — really is central to the biblical picture of redemption and really has been neglected in both theory and practice.

Whether you prefer to call it a Singularity or God, it resulted in or caused the Big Bang, which was the creation of the universe in all its glory.

That child's dance is nothing less than the eternal dance of divine Wisdom before God's throne, the dance of David and the angels and saints before his glory; it is the true face of creation, which God came to restore and which he will not suffer to see corruption..

He understands the kingdom of God as the glory of the Trinity demonstrated in God's rulership over creation.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

Another one was that when one of his verses that stated Jesus and God in heavens and that they created all creations, and in the next one about Jesus and God being one... Revelation 4:11 11 «You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.»

Finally we are deafened by the combined song of all creation, singing not to its own glory but to the glory of God, whose glory is above earth and heaven,

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

The glory and the holiness of the God of Mount Sinai calls forth in the Covenant people awe, wonder, and fear, which is expressed, finally, in their obedience to those principles through which God's presence is seen in human life, those principles through which life, love, and the fullness of God's creation are finally achieved.

Again (just as when God reveals himself to Moses), Paul can say of him afterward: «He was God present in our midst; Jesus was the eternal Christ,» «the glory of Christ who is the image of God,» or «as the firstborn of creation, all things were created in him,» etc..

Given the theological cast of her writing, one might expect to find in her memoir a portrait of the artist as a young Jonathan Edwards — someone who (shortly before he went off to college) observed the curiosities of the flying spider, analyzed the optics of the rainbow, and then celebrated the glory of the creator as revealed in the natural creation.

We have to tend the creation, use it for our own sustenance and flourishing, but we also have to respect it in itself as a manifestation of God's creative energy and cooperate with God in bringing out the full splendor of the created order as reflecting the glory of the Creator.

In the only clear case of a specifically Christian reading being given to an Old Testament text, the first chapter of Genesis features Paul's words about the glory of a transformed creation from 2 Corinthians in the margin.

That God's purpose in creation should be the manifestation of his glory is also an attribute which has definite relations to our practical life.

For the careful reader, the creation accounts are saying that however God fashioned the world — we are not made privy to the formation but only to the results and, in a general way, their cosmic purpose of displaying God's glory — he, his generous love, is its single ultimate source.

Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

(Isaiah 40:17, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Ephesians 5:2) And in order that He might demonstrate His love, and to bring glory and honor, and praise to Himself, and in order to demonstrate His relative attributes of mercy, grace, justice, and loving - kindness, He devised a plan in eternity past to create a universe where His creation would rebel against Him, and He would send forth His Son to the world to be born of a virgin, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die a subst.itutionary death on a cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins.

ALL GLORY TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN Do you want me to be mute when they slaughter my people, the widowed, the abandoned, the poor and the hapless?The hurt they inflict on my people, how can a father bear his children being killed and left for dead?Therefore, to reinstate love on Earth, hope and my life to sustain my creations, I'm pushed by the unrepentant nature of my creations.

They are texts that make the reality of the new creation readable; they are texts that glow with an ambiance of glory.

1 — God exists 2 — God desires an expression of His glory 3 — God creates mankind 4 — God loves His creation 5 — Mankind rebels against God 6 — God implements plan to redeem mankind (a demonstration of pure GRACE) back into communion with Him, not because of our worthiness, but only for His glory.

But they are not, and surely Christians, above all, should be working hard to proclaim the glory of God's Creation and doing their best to protect it - not leaving it to pagans and secular left - wingers.

So Paul is proud to bear in his body «the marks of the Lord Jesus,» (Galatians 6:17 [King James Version]-RRB- and behind this personal glorying in self - sacrifice he has a cosmic outlook upon suffering as belonging to the very warp and woof of the universe — «The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.»

Without a heart that sings the glory of God, perhaps we would not have the creation story, and certainly not the story of deliverance.

For the Creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of GodCreation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of Godcreation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.»

You said: «The theology of the cross (not of glory) keeps us grounded in reality, and hopeful of the New Creation that Christ promises when He will someday usher in His New Kingdom.»

Just as my God gives me unmeasurable love for those He puts in my path, and He causes me to see the need of their souls, loving them regardless of their status, color, or who they are, so He also REMOVES the pity from it for those who have crossed His line, and in their arrogance blaspheme the Name of Jesus, the Lord of glory, whom all creation praises and glorifies.

These biblical stories, while not being accounts of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection with actuality which stories of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the creation story is true only if God is in fact the Creator of the heavens and the earth and of man in his image, and the story of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated from God and thus actually falling short of the glory of his own true nature and destiny.

You can not wrap yourselves in professional mystery, for the glory of the Lord is such that it is preached with power throughout all the length and breadth of the world, by these investigators of his wondrous creation.

Christs death on the cross and the glory of God in the creation that surrounds man turns heads and hearts to this day.