The phrase
"immortal gods" refers to gods or deities that cannot die and live forever.
Full definition
«exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.»
Accordingly, gentlemen, since
the immortal gods have either transferred to you their whole power or at least have allowed you to share it, I now commend to your protection the counsel whom I previously entrusted to the immortal gods.
If there is
an immortal God, we are immortal spiritual beings and this life is but a flash, much like a vaccination.
In Paul's words, people «exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or fourfooted animals or reptiles» (Rom.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles....
In his characteristically poetic style, he tells us, «Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.»
He can not acknowledge that we are less than
immortal gods — and that, therefore, our actions must have limits and our lives must recognize bonds of human community across the generations.
The affirmation that the Word of God has finally become man calls upon man to accept his own humanity and to abandon all mythological pretensions to be
an immortal god.
A passage of Paul's clarifies the problem somewhat: people «exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles» (Rom.
It is our hope and prayer as Evangelicals and Catholics that by rightly using the means of grace afforded to us in the Church here on earth, we will be more fully conformed to Christ and thus be drawn into more perfect communion with one another and with the communio sanctorum triumphant, to the glory of the one and
immortal God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
23 And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of
the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles.
1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
They can't deal with the prospect of not being here anymore, so they invented a heaven and a hell and
an immortal god.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Let us consider antiquity: Did not the Greeks know about Chiron, the wise centaur, who instructed Achilles in playing the lyre; who introduced the mortal son of
the immortal gods to the knowledge of the mysteries, guiding him out of the darkness of the Dionysian natural existence into the Apollonian kingdom of light; who showed him the way of transitoriness to immortal existence, himself a delivered deliverer?
First of all, chaos came into being, next broad - bosomed Earth, the solid and eternal home of all, and Eros, the most beautiful of
the immortal gods, who in every man and every god softens the sinews and overpowers the prudent purpose of the mind.13
they arent wenger will continue to manage arsenal for all eternity like
an immortal God manager
He is only a brilliant human, and not
an immortal god.
How many times can
an immortal god of thunder come of age and find his place in the universe?
You said; «How many times can
an immortal god of thunder come of age and find his place in the universe?»
In between his fights and Thor persuading everyone to save his home, Ragnarok keeps cutting back to a defeated Asgard where Thor's folks (are
they immortal gods or just citizens?)
With the gauntlet, Thanos is essentially
an immortal God who can snap his fingers and turn entire worlds to dust, but without it he's just another villain who wants to rule the universe.