Sentences with phrase «images of gods»

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.

The sculpture of Ancient Greece, often of Olympian deities, was admired but the exuberance of much Hindu art was puzzling and Pöhlmann writes that «what is annoying about many images of the gods is their kitsch», although he adds that kitsch is a very relative term.

We are living in a time when the images of gods and idols are crashing all about us.

In the beautiful expression of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of God the Father.»

Many faiths today have carved (could be physical or in their mind / soul) an image of God that reflects the people of that faith.

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

Second, the image of God entails that men must be allowed freedom in their own minds («soul liberty») from coercion from other men.

I see an image of God in the wonder and awe of this very existence.

Older accounts grounded in the dignity of the person created in the image of God are, in my view, far stronger.

We would expect that since Humans are created in the image of God, they would be unique and clearly distinguishable from other animals.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

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.

Jesus was the brightness and express image of God the Father.

Reality, This is precisely what Scripture reveals about Jesus: «He is the image of the invisible God, the first - born of all creation» (Colossians 1:15)... which fits nicely with what you said the Saint Ignatius of Antioch said, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of God the Father».

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 them.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

The belief that all are made in the image of God carries with it profound moral implications for the church.

The Puritans and some other early settlers of America tried not to employ visual representations of God, although they surely must have had some mental image of God or Jesus as they spoke to him in prayer.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

I see the image of God in the Bible as through the generations a remnant is continually brought through the wickedness that longs for the promise of God.

First, men are created in the image of God.

David Bowie, made in the image of God.

That was the image of God put into man.

(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 through.

This has nothing to do with reflecting the image of God we were all created with.

We have a three in one essence which mirrors the image of God in the trinity.

«All humans are made in the image of God.

Gender is not a consideration when we talk about the image of God.

To suggest that women can not reflect the image of God does great violence to the scriptures.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

They are valuable because they are created by God and in the image of God.

In terms of gender, God's original design was for men and women as co-rulers, co-inheritors, and equally carriers of the divine image of God.

As humans created in the image of God we are capable of divine expression even in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume killing each other.

Everything is thus an image of God, for the perfection of a thing would be to be God.

We are each embodied male or female, and it is in our communion with one another that we are «images of God.»

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.

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

That scenario of injustice became systemic, social injustice in a wicked institution like slavery, in which the very opportunity of the enslaved to reflect the imago dei (image of God) was compromised by exploitation and violence.

Theologies were written to suggest that non-white people did not bear the image of God like white people did and were therefore not worthy of basic human dignity.

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

Gen 1:27 «So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them»

If those in the rain forest were given the image of God they have opportunity if they have not the image of God they are a blank slate as to soul i.e. they do not have capacity to love

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.

However, many people also operate from a toxic and negative image of God.

Nor is avoiding questions compatible with our nature as rational beings made in the image of God.

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

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.

Just as the form and structure of the milky way, our Sun and Earth was refined by the natural so too is the image of God.

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.