G to T = > «29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to
the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
For what it's worth, I would apply this to both genders — for instance, I'm not sure that I would be too comfortable with
the image of my son going out in public wearing clothing with his underwear showing, half his backside sticking out, and displaying a relief of his genitalia a la some cheap Vegas costume.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of our Father's love for us and our real capacity to become
the image of his Son.»
That is part of what Paul means when he says that those whom God calls are to be «conformed to
the image of his Son» (Rom.
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,
Think things through, for we are given a renewing mind for the purposes of being conformed into
the image of the Son of God, the Logos become flesh.
You realize, I'm sure, that God * does * want us to be like Him («conformed to
the image of His Son», etc.), that this is our ultimate goal.
[2] Rather, He predestined, He decided beforehand, not that some would receive eternal life and others be condemned to eternal death, but that those who placed faith in Jesus Christ would be adopted as God's sons — would be eternally secure, would make it finally to heaven, and would be conformed to
the image of His Son.
The community can not be enclosed within an institutional framework of this world; it must stretch ever upwards in the power of the Spirit, in order that it may be conformed to
the image of the Son and filled with all the fullness of God.
In Romans 8:29, Paul states that those whom God foreknew, He predestined to be conformed to
the image of His Son.
Romans similarly affirms that we were «predestined before time began to become conformed to
the image of His Son, that He should be the firstborn among many brethren.»
I would only hope we recognize that our new nature (which can not sin) is alien to our old - nature we drag with us, and it is by God's grace any of us are subject to God's conforming us into
the image of The Son and building us up as a whole with all the saints into the full measure of spiritual adulthood belonging to the Humanity of our great God and Savior Jesus our Lord and Master.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into
the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
There remains the deep mystery of divine predestination: «Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to
the image of his son... And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justifed» (Rom.
That love is so beautifully pervasive in the incredible naptime
images of her son Beau and rescued puppy Theo; some of these images now can be found in Jessica's new picture book, Naptime with Theo & Beau, which I'm sharing as this week's Friday Find.
We actually had a great
image of my son's tower when he laid it down on the sidewalk and propped it up, but I recently had a fiasco with my camera memory card that I'd rather not go into right now (let's just say it involved 3000 images and 100 videos).
After Anthony Weiner's latest sext scandal — which included
an image of their son — Huma Abedin decides to call it a day.
Further, believers can share the ways in which God uses struggles and successes to form us into
the image of His Son.
With the help of his 4 - year - old son, Sheldon captures
images of his son on adventures in what would be considered an alien landscape to wondering eyes.
Josephine Livingstone and Lovia Gyarkye of the New Republic argued Open Casket is a form of cultural appropriation disrespectful toward Mobley's intention for
the images of her son.
Although D'Souza didn't say so explicitly, it became clear that Mamie Till Mobley, who agreed to publish
the images of her son's open coffin in Jet, was in her own way an agent — a woman controlling the visual narrative in a time of extraordinary pain.
You have painted a beautiful
image of your son in my mind.
I have
an image of my son printed on canvas.
Not exact matches
I was really struck by the
image of Katrina Lake holding her
son during her IPO, and there are a number
of women entrepreneurs out there who are saying, «I want that to be me too.»
Gurney managed to save one plate, which was shown to the president's oldest
son, Robert Todd Lincoln, in hopes that he might want to preserve the
image for the sake
of posterity.
«And my 2 - month - old
son, who we had just brought home from the hospital and he was holding him and it was the most beautiful
image, like it's burned in my mind for the rest
of my life.»
Schwarzenegger admitted that he thinks about his affair «every so often,» but he does have a healthy relationship with his
son Joseph Baena (who really is the spitting
image of his famous father).
He appears to have used the Thompsons» photos to manufacture a Facebook page using
images of the older
son that made him appear to be homosexual, hoping to engage the young man online.
Because the
image of this farm boy from Smaland — hardworking, thrifty, with all this mythology around him, close to the common folk... the Kamprad
sons, who grew up in a very different world, don't represent that at all.
In spite
of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven
images» (and the worship
of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations
of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture
of the
Son of God.
This is what we must know: We are first and foremost
image bearers, and we are beloved
sons and daughters
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.
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.
«The second person
of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal
Son not daughter; the Father and the
Son create man and woman in His
image and give them the name man, the name
of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the
Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers
of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»
But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention:
sons of God, made in his
image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.
And it tells us, finally, that everyone's most basic identity is not as single, married or divorced; as gay or straight; as member
of this or that family or household — but as
son or daughter
of God, made in his
image, destined for his household, and for the glory
of his kingdom.
The relation
of Father and
Son is the
image of that communion in God.
To Eric.G, to answer your question, It is my point
of view that Jesus (PBUH) is the
Son of God based on the simple statement that reads «god made man in his own
image».
So again in the New Testament, the love
of God means the complete spiritual communion for which the human
image of father and
son offers the most important analogy.
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.
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.
Thus God takes away our sins, restores His
image in our hearts, and grants to us a new birth, another chance, through the unmerited love
of His
Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thus God takes away our sins, restores His
image in our hearts, and grants us a new birth, another chance, through the unmerited love
of His
Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
We are made in God's
image to respond to him with the God - breathed spirit that gives life to our finite bodies; and we are called by name in the waters
of baptism, in which we are incorporated into the life
of the One whom the Father calls his beloved
Son.
Can even God tolerate a people and a preacher who have presumably taken his work in the sacrificial and costly atonement
of Jesus Christ, his
Son and our Lord, if their leading
image of ministry and servanthood is devoid
of genuflection?
These
images and actions are but visible, embodied signs
of an invisible promise — «God so loved the world that he gave his only
Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.»
So what is the biblical
image» in reality», Jesus The
Son of Man, Jesus the
Son of God, Jesus the lamb
of God, Jesus the gate, Jesus the shepherd, Jesus the light
of the world, Jesus the resurrection and the life, Jesus the vine, Jesus the king
of Israel, Jesus the humble foot washer, Jesus the bridegroom, Jesus the Word.
The story
of the rich fool (Luke 12:13 - 21) is a mirror
image of the prodigal
son.
The relationship
of Yahweh to Israel is expressed in the father /
son image (for example, in addition to Hos.