The model for the paintings are the memories and
images of God when the artist was a child.
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.
Not exact matches
According to a legend,
when Muhammad eliminated all the
images of other
gods in the Ka» bah, he refused to destroy the statue
of Mary and the infant Christ.
When we understand these two bookends
of the Bible as framing the whole Christian mystery, the marriage
of man and woman takes on its true nature as an
image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to
God.
Gender is not a consideration
when we talk about the
image of God.
We are living in a time
when the
images of gods and idols are crashing all about us.
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.
lol» In the first and third creation accounts
of a man and woman in Ge 1:26 - 29 and Ge 5:1 - 2, the passages clearly states that
when the male and female were created, only the male was created in
God's
image.
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).
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.
(10:24) We will become truly human
when we are truly communal, we're made in the
image of God, a communal Trinity
God.
When we experience the deconstruction
of our faith and beliefs, one
of the most challenging deconstructions that we must endure is the one that demolishes, slowly or rapidly, our ideas and
images of God...
When Maine describes Noe's ordeal in traveling through a desert by saying, «Around him the land quivers and ripples as if still just an idea in
God's mind,» he is making a decision to admit the Platonic
image rather than impoverish the range
of language available to him.
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.
And
when we reject the desires
of gay Christians to express their sexuality within a lifelong covenant, we separate them from our covenantal
God, and we tarnish their ability to bear his
image.»
For example,
when Pope Benedict XVI was head
of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith, he penned the recent On the Collaboration
of Men and Women, concluding that feminine values are «above all human values: the human condition
of man and woman created in the
image of God is one and indivisible.
«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.»
That we pervert the
image of God in ourselves
when we do not love that which is beneath us is the critical spiritual insight
of St. Francis
of Assisi and
of Albert Schweitzer.
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.
Although her decision was based solely on personal preference, she said it makes sense that
when a woman learns to embrace her natural hair texture, she also learns to embrace herself as a creation in the
image of God.
Therefore,
when the Christian acknowledges his own existence in a truly Godless world he must repudiate both the name and
image of God.
When creatures who are gifted as the
image and likeness
of God misuse love, corrupting what
God made good, then the love
of God goes to them to heal them.
Our interpretation
of the self -
image becomes theological
when we speak from within the faith
of the Church and say that the objective reality which stands between persons is
God made personal and available to us in Jesus Christ.
But
when we miss out on trying new things and taking risks, we're missing out on what it looks like to live fully alive as humans made in the
image of God.
It is interesting because I am still in the middle
of a long series on how to understand the flood in light
of Jesus Christ, and the flood is exactly what this
image talks about
when comparing
God with Hitler.
[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.
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.
When the people sin in making an idol in the
image of the golden calf in Exodus 32, Moses» rebuke is about their «marital unfaithfulness» to
God.
You feel insulted and «dehumanized»
when creationists say that people were created in the
image and likeness
of God, but you have no problem with the evolutionist claim that we all evolved from slime by a cosmic accident.
It's only
when we focus the two
images into one that we gain spiritual «depth perception» and begin to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love
of God.»
Can we imagine how much
of the Catholic tradition has been forgotten
when it is said by a Catholic theologian that
God -
images have never been very important in Christian art?
When we are facing a fleshly weakness, but resist it and submit to the Spirit
of God out
of love for Him,
God always works it together for good so that we are conformed to His
image.
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.
God was clearly trying to protect a easily influenced group
of people (recall how easily they reverted to the making
of images of Gold
when Moses had left for a short time to receive the 10 commandments as one example).
A question for Timelesswheelman: Why is it that, unlike other religious believers who are faced with
images of their prophets,
gods, etc, Muslims appear to be the only religious group that goes absolutely bat - shaft crazy and murderous
when someone, for example, publishes a cartoon
of the prophet?
When the
image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because
of the presence
of that divine
image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.
If we evolved from the lower primates, then
when we reached the stage
of reflection and conscious choice (
when the
image of God entered into that line
of primates), we made the decision to «sin» — to dominate and to kill in order to serve our own ends, rather than to follow the call
of that «
image of God» which had entered into the human creature.
When Genesis talks about Adam (and all
of Adam's descendants) bearing the
image of God, it refers to something other than our physical appearance.
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.
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.
Is it possible that the
image of God is revealed through us, those who follow Jesus, and is it possible that it reveals itself
when we love and honor others, including and especially those who we might consider the unlovely?
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 E
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 E
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 E
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 E
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 E
when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden
of Eden.
And
when women, dancing Sarah's circle, affirm the importance
of relationships in human life, they are doing more than reflecting women's psychology; they are showing all Christians what it means to be created in
God's
image.
I think that our sense
of fairness and justice is part
of God's
image that he created in us, and
when we sense unfairness or injustice, we are reflecting His character.
I would put it the other way and say that
God deifies himself in us
when we become perfectly detached, and that's the nature
of God's creation
of humanity as the
image and likeness
of God — imago Dei.
When Isaiah speaks
of his encounter with
God and Moses speaks
of his encounter the presentation is different yet the
image for the reader leaves a clear picture.
Now that is faith:
when a man believes in
God, the Lord
of all, who made heaven and earth, and the seas and all that is in them; he made Adam in his
image; he gave the Law to Moses; he sent his spirit upon the prophets.
Nevertheless, each can acknowledge the other's relation to truth
when each cares more for
God than for his
image of God.
When the I
of the I - It relation comes in between man and
God, this glance is no longer possible, and, as a result, the
image - making power
of the human heart declines.