Sentences with phrase «invisible gods»

People believing in «invisible gods» to provide for them are just as bad as those who feel they should have whatever they need provided to them by the government.

Dear honest Muslims, keep on seeking the invisible God, but be honest, and admit that the commandments only increase your passion to sin, but do not reduce it.

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 you worship an invisible god, you'd better damn well keep your religion invisible as well and quit using it as a justification for every evil thing you do to other people.

I may believe in an invisible god but I do not worship worldly goods as most people do.

Taken that the reality is an invisible God that isn't evident to everyone, and a plain declaration in the Bible that God is supposedly so alien that no human could possibly know his mind, I frankly find it puzzling how any believer can have confidence in what this being actually thinks without falling to wishful thinking, can you?

Col 1:15 - 16 These verses can not be affirming the Trinity because they open with Christ being «the image [eikon] of the invisible God.»

It was his heart (and He is the image of the invisible God) to protect Jerusalem, not to do it violence.

The apostle Paul called Jesus «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation».

Muslims to this day do not accept images and such in their worship and it is confusing as to why Christianity can't follow suit in worshipping an invisible God in doing the same, especially when their history preceded Islam and wrote the book (so to speak) on such pure worship.

Through this revelation, therefore, the invisible God out of the abundance of His love speaks to men as friends and lives among them, so that He may invite and take them into fellowship with Himself.

«He is the image of the invisible God, the first - born of all creation, for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible.»

This will require spreading our own evangelical creed: that we are not disembodied subjects but fleshly icons of the invisible God; whose worth comes not from extorted approval of our personal choices but from His infinite, undeserved love.

If a basic rule of hermeneutics is that the simpler and clearer texts should override the more difficult and troubling texts, and if Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God so that He can say «if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father,» why do we choose to let the more troubling, difficult, and violent texts override and trump the loving, merciful, and Christlike texts?

Such I live of love must be the actual adoration of the invisible God.

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

Was the human face of Jesus thus a manifestation of the invisible God?

The Lord Jesus Christ alone is the image of the invisible God.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

you can not apply this same kind of thinking to an invisible god.

Other interpreters looked to verses in the New Testament presenting Christ as the «image of the invisible God» (Col. 1:15).

Prayer makes you expect something, and when it happens by chance or otherwise, you give credit to an invisible god who had NOTHING to do with it.

Perhaps in another 20 years we will have new scripture about David Koresh being the son of God and how his mom was impregnated by an invisible god that was really him.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

[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.

He is the image of the invisible God, the first - born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... all things were created through him and for him.

My life is great following basic morals and laws without having to pay homage to the invisible god and the silly rules that his creators have invented over the years to keep people in line while getting rich.

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.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Christ is the face or the image of the invisible God.

He is the image of the invisible God, the one who holds all things together, the glue that makes Christ the King Sunday so important.

Paul writes that Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15) and that in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of God (Col 1:19).

He is also, as St. Paul says, the end of the Law and its fulfillment: «He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

If Jesus is the exact representation of God and is the image of the invisible God (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), but during His life and ministry never revealed the aspect of God as a warrior, then there are only two options: either God is not a warrior and Jesus did truly reveal the Father to us, or Jesus was being deceptive.

Colossians 1:15 — 17, NET:» He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

3 Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15), reflecting the glory of God and bearing the very stamp of God's nature (Heb.

The letter to the Colossians tells us that «Christ is the image of the invisible God.»

It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?

The text was Colossians 1:15: Christ is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all...

Well, where is the Invisible god that you christians believes in?

He is «the image of the invisible God.»

Twelfth - century sculpture does not claim to represent the real Jesus as he was; rather it tries to show in a purely symbolic manner an incarnation of the glory of the invisible God.

The world comes into being through the Word, the Word which is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.»

I can't wait until people wake up and realize that this «invisible god, and book» they externalize everything in their life to, doesn't exist..

John's prologue is illumined with the words from Colossians 1 about Jesus being the «image of the invisible God.»

Certainly, some of you may really seek the invisible God, and I wish you would find him.

And when we look at Jesus, and recognize the truth... that He is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15) and the exact representation of God (Heb 1:3), we will discover that we start to become more Christlike as well.

Colossians 1:15: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Paul articulately asserts the truth of the Incarnation in Colossians 1, but his use of «firstborn» does not mean that there was a time when the Son of God wasn't (any more than John 3:16's use....

Christ is the «icon of the invisible God» (Col. 1:15).

Christology — I have had to learn to refocus all my theology upon the cross of Jesus Christ, and have come to see Jesus as the center of God's revelation, the lens by which Scripture is read, and truly the «image of the invisible God.»