Sentences with phrase «image of god at»

The refusal of much traditional theology to place the kenotic image of God at its center has led to impossible tangles in its attempts to interpret the world and human experience.

Not exact matches

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.

But we... with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)

But I believe, and am of strong conviction at this, that this country is provoking the judgment of God on itself, by treating it's poor, under - privileged and those who fall through the cracks as a burden, and as a nuisance that is only in the way of it's «at all cost» coveted image of «greatness», instead of giving a hard and honest look WHY is it the way it is in this country?

Whatever that may mean entirely, it at least means that to be created in the image of God means to be imbued to some degree with godly power to manage the world.

At the heart of all of this is a passionate conviction that every human is created in the image and likeness of God.

When we look at the Book of Genesis, we see that the first thing God is looking for is quite simply «images» by which to communicate who - God - is (Genesis 1:26 - 27).

I'm angry at the patriarchal worldly attitude that centres fathers, forgetting that male and female are made in the image of God.

But most days, at heart I see myself as shepherd, as caretaker, as fortunate steward of these small people, these images of God.

In the previous study of Genesis 1:26, we began to look at what it means to be made in the image of God.

At what point did the idea that all people are created in the image of God lose its currency and appeal?

What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».

The man who chooses to live in our destiny can neither know the reality of God's presence nor understand the world as his creation; or, at least, he can no longer respond — either interiorly or cognitively — to the classical Christian images of the Creator and the creation.

Second, I believe Scripture teaches that both men and women are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), which means both masculinity and femininity are - at some level - part of God's nature.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

The man who can not feel at least some faint intimation of this grief is a paltry soul of base coinage, bearing neither the image of Caesar nor the image of God.

Because we are created in God's image and the grace of God is extended equally to women, we can join the company of those women who first wept in the shadow of the cross and later rejoiced at the empty tomb.

If mankind is made in the image and likeness of God, don't we have, at the core of our being, the qualities of God?

What Lynch is driving at with his insistence on the analogical imagination, which finds in the images of limitation «the path to whatever the self is seeking: to insight, or beauty, or, for that matter, to God,» is directly related to what I have called metaphor as method.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

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.

Surely, however, the basic affirmation of Christian theism, founded (once we have got behind the images in which often it was phrased) on the biblical witness to the faithfulness and consistency of God and to his unfailing maintenance of the creation in being, is that all things at all times and in all places are present to God, that he is always at work in them, that he constantly energizes through them, that he never ceases to move in the creation towards the accomplishment of his holy will and the revelation of his holy purpose.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Our dual images of God in the Testaments start to merge together when we see that the suffering of Christ began in his Father's heart at the dawn of creation, when we see God our Father bearing the cross for our sins.

Fallon points out, «the devout worshipper believes that something has happened, the statue or image has been transformed into the very body of god or at least, into his abode.»

At the annual Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Kentucky, megachurch pastor Matt Chandler said he's «deeply concerned» that Christian leaders today are more concerned with projecting a cool image than leaning into the Word of God.

The concerns of those who are more informed should at least prompt us to stay mindful of our reliance on technology and how developments could end up undermining the worth, purpose and safety of human beings, who have been created in God's image.

if you recall, God said, «Let us make man in our image AND after our likeness...... yes, every man still bears the image of God and deserves respect, but every man deserves to be pitied for the likeness of God which he has lost and which can only be restored through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is more than a book, He is the Living Word of God, and any relationship with Him demands an obedience to the Word He represents, thus, how can a man «walk humbly with God» while at the same time rejecting the His very Word?

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.

We are made in Gods image and thus we need to reflect this image and His character outwards into the lives of people... at their edge of life and personal hell reflecting Gods grace, mercy, justice, compassion and forgiveness.

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.

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.

What it means to be made in the image of God may become clearer if we take a look at our most distinctive traits — those that set us apart from the sub-human world and prompt us to speak of «the human soul» or «the human spirit.»

• 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).

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

At its worst, this notion takes the form of the image of God as divine lawgiver and judge, who has proclaimed an arbitrary set of moral rules, who keeps records of offences, and who will punish offenders.

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

Invoking a scriptural image of man created as the image and likeness of God, he redeployed reason and will, securing — at least for believers — an enduring human nucleus.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

The Church's own failure in this respect is itself rooted in a refusal to be informed by the image of God's humility that lies at the center of Christian revelation.

Pagan mythology it is, ensconced in our time and embraced in our church, where we have supposed that we can know the glory of immortal God while worshiping also at the altar of our powerful and overwhelmingly impressive national Baal, an image, in the final analysis, simply made by human minds and hands.

Pearson, who described himself at the time as a «fundamentalist, Pentecostal, evangelical» Christian, asked God what he could do to help while images of human suffering flashed on the TV screen.

He is the only possible way of seeing God, and at the same time he is the true image of humanity.

Hearing the Word of God no longer matters; now seeing and looking at an image are central.

When officers of the Rabbinical Council ofAmerica balked at participating in a Catholic - sponsored conference on «Man as the Image of God,» on the grounds that this was «theology,» the Rav wryly remarked that a conference on «Man as a Purely Naturalistic Being» would not have set off the same alarms.

Images are incapable of expressing anything at all about God.

It didn't happen millions of billions of years ago, but at the same time, a «day» isn't really a 24 - hour day (p. 65) and the only real point of the creation account is to tell us that God made mankind in His image (p. 70).

Here the adoration of false gods is not at issue so much as the confusion that amounts to claiming to represent by an image what one is going to worship.

Perhaps this is one of the meanings of the image of God: one who responds and is responsible; a counterpart who will dialogue, who is both at a certain distance and has the ability to communicate.