Sentences with phrase «image of a god who»

[22] Once that image of love was desecrated by sin, it had to be recast in the furnace of divine love.The Incarnation marks the moment when the image of the invisible God became man, renewing man's image in a new creation so that men might become in Him who they were forever intended to be in God's eyes, the image of the God who is love (Eph.

The Incarnation marks the moment when the image ofthe invisible God became man, renewing man's image in a new creation so that men might become in Him who they were forever intended to be in God's eyes, the image of the God who is love (Eph.

Indeed, we may not cherish each other's body and life as we ought unless we discern in one another the image of the God who calls us to himself.

It exhorts Christians to act out the implications of the human being made in the image of God who has become incarnate.

By our indwelling the image of a God who identifies with the lost, we are — at least in principle — delivered of the need to exaggerate our performances or to lie to ourselves about our shortcomings.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

The image of a God who renounces omnipotence enters into our consciousness with such unexpectedness that we can not help but see it as a revelation.

Man bears the image of God who is love.

An imperial governmental style contradicts the image of a God who treats us as adult partners in bringing in his kingdom.

Not exact matches

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

It was humans who were created in the image of God, not animals.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

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.

I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex individuals who are trying to figure out, like all of us, what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God and yet have a whole intact personal identity which can include same - sex attraction.

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.

that's Satan 2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto thgod of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto thGod, should shine unto them.

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)

(2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine througod of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine throuGod, might not shine through.

We humans make God contemptible because of our prejudice, taught / learned hate, and our desire to make God over into our image (you know, the cool dad who lives with his perfect family in the cul de sac and belongs to the same golf club you do, etc, etc.).

We live in a system where elections matter because they determine who will make decisions that impact people — people created in the image of God and with infinite worth.

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?

The vicar who led the funeral of fundraiser Kirsty Howard has said she was «an image of God's goodness... More

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image 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.

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).

The image of the first human in Genesis 2, who is either male with a female element or sexually undifferentiated (the adam or earthling), from whom God then extracts a part to form woman, is no endorsement of attempts to erase one's birth sex in order to transition to the opposite sex.

Thus it is far more problematic when someone who believes in God and that people are created in his image and have souls kills an innocent person than for someone who thinks of people as really smart animals to kill an innocent person.

If inclusive language and the ordained ministry of women can help change our image and experience of God to include the God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our time.

Christians who want to defend our faith are being duped by the Father of Lies into falling for a story that says Islam is the enemy and therefore anything we do to fight Islam (including posting obvious lies, including inciting hatred for men and women made in God's image) is justified.

«Satan, the god of [this system of things] has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4god of [this system of things] has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4God, might not shine through» (2Corr 4:4)

Saint Paul uses the same image: «God who said «Let light shine out of darkness,» has shone in our hearts» (2 Cor 4:6).

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.

Calling Jesus the image of God squares beautifully with his statement that, «Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father» (John 14:9 and 10).

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

An aberration against the very nature of man who was created in the image of God.

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

Finally, when men of God will have been reduced to nothing but the love of and for God, women, who are the image of Christs bride / wife, will be appreciated by us as the Christ like servants they have always been.

But this image jars with the scene of shame and powerlessness in Luke, who describes the death of the Son of God, the King of the Jews.

In co-creation with the creator, you're a namer, a maker, an altar builder, a lifter - up of the name and the Cross, and you are a pilgrim, a disciple, made in the image of God, you are the one who walks with God.

In European society today, thank goodness, anyone who dishonors the faith of Israel, its image of God, or its great figures must pay a fine.

It is to protect the life, liberty, and property of the individual, created in God's image, from those who would rob him or her of these things.

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.

As members of the Christian community, we endeavor collectively to bring the love of Christ and authentic Christian freedom and justice to all» especially the weak and helpless who, too often, are denied the respect due all who are created in God's image.

And as a woman, referring to God as She or as Mother serves as an important, liberating reminder that I am indeed created in the image of God, not as some lesser being who exists in perpetual subordination to men, but as an expression of God's very self.

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.

And it is this God who consistently fails to appear in Process and Reality, other than as a negative or a kind of after - image.

A truly dialectical image of God (or of the Kingdom of God) will appear only after the most radical negation, just as a genuinely eschatological form of faith can now be reborn only upon the grave of the God who is the symbol of the transcendence of Being.

Of course, by «in His image» the bible is referring to our natural orientation and inclination toward love and truth (i.e., toward God, who is Love and is the Truth).

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.