Sentences with phrase «image of god there»

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

In the image of God there is no limit in man we want it all.

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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.

sam stone Given we are made in the image of God our core «DNA» (as evidenced by 98 % of the world population) knows there is more to this existence than chemical reaction on organic matter.

If man is not created in the image of God, and if there is no God in heaven Who will judge the living and the dead, if there are no objective standards of right and wrong — then life becomes cheap.

They could, but you would get as many answers as there are people, because belief is a very personal thing and we all craft our gods in our own image... or in the image of what we fear most.

The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless

You are aware that there is also female imagery of God in the bible and that Genesis does tell us that God created male and female in his image.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

... If we are created in the image of God, is there in us the potential to be a little bit like him?

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.

In which tetragrammaton (Hebrew word meaning Yahweh [a singular god]-RRB- creates the garden of eden in the east, and creates a man in his own image and places him there, etc, etc..

The Father is God, and that is why there is no verse that calls the Father the image of God.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

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,

You are putting them in touch with the image of God within them, which connects them with the living God who put it there.

There are many things we do not understand, facets of god that has long been lost and long been rewritten by man in his own image to justify today's needs and actions.

I said there were four contextual keys to what it means to be made in the image of God.

By the time Goetz wrote, that theme — of God hanging there on the gallows with the innocent sufferer, in the timeless image Elie Wiesel offered in his book Night — had come to dominate many forms of Protestant theology.

While it may be possible to work from the idea of God making humankind in the image of God back to the Trinity, it requires the assumption that there is some threefold characteristic to us, either in our constitution or relationship to one another as male and female.

There is no possibility of understanding history as the image of God unless we reach a new theological understanding of both imagery and the imagination.

A radical Christian would interpret these words as meaning that the glory of the God of the old covenant is abolished, for apart from an abolition of the God of judgment, there remains no possibility of transforming humanity into the likeness or image of the glory of Christ.

For Genesis, my view is that God wants to communicate that he is the Creator of all that there is, that he has given humanity a special image - bearing role within it, but our sinfulness has broken that relationship, et cetera — but that he doesn't see a need to give them a science lesson first.

She now believes: «We're all made in the image of God, and within that image — whether we're Christians or not — there is a certain human wisdom.»

I've seen humans as nothing more than highly evolved primates, but I've also seen them as made in the image of God; I've seen children suffering and been convinced there is no God, but I've also sensed God's presence as I've reached into that same suffering; I've convinced myself that doing whatever I wanted was the most exciting way to live, but I've also found abundant life in being humbly obedient to Jesus.

If Jesus is the exact representation of God and is the image of the invisible God (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), but during His life and ministry never revealed the aspect of God as a warrior, then there are only two options: either God is not a warrior and Jesus did truly reveal the Father to us, or Jesus was being deceptive.

sqeptiq... That was a wonderfully «crafted» piece of «creative» writing... Hence, you have proved that you are indeed «made in the image» of the God who CREATED you... Your post reflects (and demands) creationism... unless you are now going to tell me that those words got there by «accident»...?

Whatever truth there may be in the assertion that man makes God in his own image, the affirmation of faith carries with it a clear distinction between the concept of God (which indeed is man - made, just as all human concepts are man - made) and God himself.

A Nair reported to the missionaries that after the arrival of Christianity among the Pulayas the «evil spirits were obliged to run away from the places» and there was «scarcely any instance of demonical possession» among them.49 Some of the priests of the Pulayas who converted to Christianity demolished the images of their deities in the presence of the missionaries, thereby suggesting belief in the power of the new God which they had found in Christianity.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

There are Churchianity buildings emblazoned with lurid scenes of a supposed image of God casting people into some burning pit of eternal torture.

Growing up with an overwhelming sense that God was calling you to be a leader in the Church, but where there are no images of what that looks like, you begin to have the little question mark in the back of your head.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. aptly said, «There are no gradations in the image of God... God made us to live together as brothers (and sisters) and to respect the dignity and worth of every human.»

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.

But there is one other facet that needs to be synthesised with this if we are to be able to refound Christian culture: the fact (and the Judaeo - Christian revelation) that my very power of intelligent observation is in the image of God's Mind.

This is a false claim as Mitt Romney and the followers of his church follow after an image of a false god and a false Christ in which there is no salvation (Matthew 24:24).

And at yet another point, we are told that, although evangelicals can not accept all of what process theists mean when they say that the world is «God's body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (111).

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There is a sense in which they are not all God intended for them to be; they are marred, but they are still people who bear in a unique way the image of God.

While there may be some truth in this, working this Step is more a matter of defining God in AA's image (Ragge, The Real AA, p. 117; bold face added).

Colossians 1:15: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Paul articulately asserts the truth of the Incarnation in Colossians 1, but his use of «firstborn» does not mean that there was a time when the Son of God wasn't (any more than John 3:16's use....

There isn't one god... And there isn't even one god for every religion... Every religious person creates a god in their own image, and prays to it... So there are actually billions and billions of different gods, each one being a unique figment of someone's imaginaThere isn't one god... And there isn't even one god for every religion... Every religious person creates a god in their own image, and prays to it... So there are actually billions and billions of different gods, each one being a unique figment of someone's imaginathere isn't even one god for every religion... Every religious person creates a god in their own image, and prays to it... So there are actually billions and billions of different gods, each one being a unique figment of someone's imaginathere are actually billions and billions of different gods, each one being a unique figment of someone's imagination.

And even where there has been progress toward a more humanizing view of the absolute, alienating elements still cling to our God - images.

I notice that you say that number one preparation approach is» There is a God (and He looks like Jesus)» I find this so difficult because as I look around I see a supposedly portrait image of Jesus that has been around for centuries and which I am sure is not only, not like Jesus, but is very misleading.

We were created to be image - bearers of the Almighty God together, so there is no room for that language or practice without some serious hermeneutical gymnastics and soul damage.

Again, the sticky wicket appears when we press the image of God as the future to ask if there is an absolute, pre-determined future toward which God is drawing us.

But in the making of images there is the danger of fomenting idolatry, and inviting the confusion of the reality with the image, when the original is, like God, unimaginable.

There are three implications of this way of understanding the image of God in man, which have important consequences for our understanding of man's estrangement from God and the consequent disorder in his existence.

Here, God appears as being absolutely sovereign and transcendent, so transcendent that there can be no human language about God, and so sovereign that God can be known only by way of the image of the Creator, and this is an «image» that negates all human vision of God, an image totally confining man to the creaturely realm, to the secular, or to the «world.»

In western Europe in the Middle Ages, for example, technology was directly spurred by a belief, namely that there are some kinds of work too degrading for creatures made in the image of God to do.16 The result of this view was a great increase in the invention of laborsaving devices.