Sentences with phrase «living image of god»
America's founding began with the Pilgrims» vision of a new Exodus and a new mission in the wilderness, and the new nation learned from the Jews to regard every human being as a living image of God.
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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».
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.»
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The good news that Jesus practiced and that mormonism malpractices is that spiritual man is always the image and likeness of God, who is all the life there is.
Apart from Christ (the risen and living God — the image of the invisible Father) you are hopeless, lifeless and dead.
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.
Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.
We humans make God contemptible because of our prejudice, taught / learned hate, and our desire to make God over into our image (you know, the cool dad who lives with his perfect family in the cul de sac and belongs to the same golf club you do, etc, etc.).
The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless
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.
We are living in a time when the images of gods and idols are crashing all about us.
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.
If we're saying — which we are — that life in the womb is life made in the image of God, then it makes perfect sense that battles for the dignity and honor of that life should extend wherever possible.
-- After creating the entire universe containing billions of stars, God focuses all his attention on one planet revolving around one star, terraforms it, and creates life, one form of which he claims is in «his image.»
You are putting them in touch with the image of God within them, which connects them with the living God who put it there.
It is an integration of the various dimensions of the person into a well - balanced being; made in God's image, so that each dimension can be what it was created to beand assist the person in living an abundant life.
This also means that, flowing from Mary's role in God's plan, all womanhood is sacred and sacramentally (physically and spiritually) expresses the whole created world's call to co-operate with God in bringing God's children to birth and maturity in the life of God in the image of Jesus.
But these texts call us to re-imagine our life together as the people of God, and the texts» images are of sheep and shepherds.
It is to protect the life, liberty, and property of the individual, created in God's image, from those who would rob him or her of these things.
The man who chooses to live in our destiny can neither know the reality of God's presence nor understand the world as his creation; or, at least, he can no longer respond — either interiorly or cognitively — to the classical Christian images of the Creator and the creation.
The images become «mental idols» that distract us from the mystery of the Living God.
It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.
From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with life gradually emerging after billions of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate universe we see today.32 To think of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.
A conception of God as «in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in and around us,» as Whitehead put it toward the end of his life, is the starting place for any viable revision of the divine image.
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.
The marriage covenant between two spouses is the living image of this faithful love of God.
It is not the violence of terror or coercion, but the violence that makes us intransigent toward ourselves and insistent in our demand that the other live — I might say, «that the other live in a manner worthy of God's image.»
Male and female God made them; and the closer they are, the more they live in mutual understanding, the more they reflect something of the image of God.
And because Christ has plainly declared that the way in which we treat people is a mirror - image of the way in which we treat God, the most ardent atheist or thoroughgoing agnostic can no more escape from Christianity than he can escape from life itself.
Yet, the verse begins, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...» Human rule of the animal creation and the natural world should mirror what I believe to be God's loving care for all life.
if you recall, God said, «Let us make man in our image AND after our likeness...... yes, every man still bears the image of God and deserves respect, but every man deserves to be pitied for the likeness of God which he has lost and which can only be restored through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is more than a book, He is the Living Word of God, and any relationship with Him demands an obedience to the Word He represents, thus, how can a man «walk humbly with God» while at the same time rejecting the His very Word?
We have to confess that the truth of God's image bearers being dignified only by the fact that they bear His image is what is driving Black Lives Matter.
And the more fear we have and the more we all blame each other for life's problems (whether it's athiests vs. Christians, or Christians vs. Jews, or baptists vs Catholics), the more we all fall farther from the image of God inside us.
To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.
I've seen humans as nothing more than highly evolved primates, but I've also seen them as made in the image of God; I've seen children suffering and been convinced there is no God, but I've also sensed God's presence as I've reached into that same suffering; I've convinced myself that doing whatever I wanted was the most exciting way to live, but I've also found abundant life in being humbly obedient to Jesus.
We are made in Gods image and thus we need to reflect this image and His character outwards into the lives of people... at their edge of life and personal hell reflecting Gods grace, mercy, justice, compassion and forgiveness.
She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»
Faith in the God revealed in Jesus Christ that is secure enough to live with changing images of God.
Religion in human life is the voice which expresses that image of God in us.
I have been arguing that good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God, and that urbanism — for good reason — is a privileged symbol in the Christian imagination.
They are not one - dimensional archetypes but people, which means that Lance Armstrong, despite his celebrity, is really one of us — a human being, made in the image of God, marred by sin and living in a broken world.
The American Lutherans state that «a qualitative distinction must be made between [the fetus's] claims and the rights of a responsible person made in God's image who is living in relationships.»
Good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God.
In reclaiming the woman, feminist hermeneutics gives new life to the image of God female.
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.
Part 1: I will do a brief sketch of the older way of seeing God and the Bible and the image of the Christian life that went with it.
What is needed, she says, is a way of thinking about God that enables Christians to accept responsibility for protecting life, and that provides us with images of shared power, not dominating power.
Nils» overriding goal in life is to be further transformed into the image of Christ and to help bring God's new society into this world.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekkinaha's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image.
Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»