Sentences with phrase «loving images of god»

If God is love the image of God in man defines the forms of love in human existence.

Not exact matches

Transformed into something that becomes praise of God for the joy of being alive, the joy of love, the joy of being created male and female in his image and being given, in our creation, this stunning and amazing invitation to eternal ecstasy and union with God.»

I realize that your beliefs are very important to you but the Bible does contain some portrayals of God that don't fit the image of the loving God that is portrayed by many Evangelicals.

this is so much more real and fits so much better with the image of a kind and loving god... thumpers would have u believe that god is the angriest, most spiteful, micro controlling, bitter, nasty character ever put out to this world... we must remember that the god thing is supposed to produce caring, inclusion, peace and love ~ not murder, hatred, exclusion and bullying..

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.

«I think we're made in the image of God regardless,» he added, «I don't think the circumstances dictate whether God knows us and loves us, regardless of how our conception comes about.»

Barbara and Randy: I think that all human beings — regardless of their acceptance of an existent God or any religious belief — are capable of kindness, generousity, and unselfish love because all human beings are created in God's image.

So we have to love God fully, but we can't love God fully without loving our neighbor fully, and without loving ourselves in the image of God fully.

If inclusive language and the ordained ministry of women can help change our image and experience of God to include the God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our time.

After all, have you ever sat down with a LGBTQ person and just heard their story, simply because they are created in the image of God and loved by Him?

The image of God in Eden was the ability to love, and it was this ability to love that was lost in the fall.

Augustine observes that this doesn't seem to give guidance on how you're meant to love yourself, but you're meant to love yourself as in the image of God.

The scene of the Cratchets welcoming a reformed Scrooge to their family hearth is more than an image for Christmas cards; it is an embodiment of man's desire for God expressed in familial love.

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

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.

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?

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.

As members of the Christian community, we endeavor collectively to bring the love of Christ and authentic Christian freedom and justice to all» especially the weak and helpless who, too often, are denied the respect due all who are created in God's image.

Images that twist the meaning of love to paint God as a cruel and hateful abuser do not do God justice.

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

Of course, by «in His image» the bible is referring to our natural orientation and inclination toward love and truth (i.e., toward God, who is Love and is the Trulove and truth (i.e., toward God, who is Love and is the TruLove and is the Truth).

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.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

t cotton i actually think you are right because our motivation is wrong generally it is to meet our own needs or wants like a parent he gives us what will help us mature spiritually that frustrates us.God is loving and caring and knows what is best for us a lot of our disapointment comes from a wrong image of who God is.brentnz

that «The truth, Benedict asserts, is that love leavens the very architecture of creation; that creation is a realm of abundance, and humanity the image and likeness of a triune and infinitely loving God.»

It is a New Testament theme which Miss Krook here rightly articulates, the love of man and woman is an image of the love of God.

[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 marriage covenant between two spouses is the living image of this faithful love of God.

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

Man is the image of God, i.e. the analogy of God, for in loving each other men love God.

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.

Also human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, we can know and love, through the power of our spiritual soul - we are very different from animals, not in our physical bodies but in our souls.

But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention: sons of God, made in his image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.

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.

God's work of love in history requires a reconception of its meaning, the discovery of new forms of its expression, and the transformation of those images of love which have become stereotyped and impotent in this epoch.

The difficulty with accepting the Lukan interpretation as essentially correct and seeing the shepherd as Jesus» «image of God's activity of love», as does Jeremias, (J. Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], p. 133.)

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.»

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.

On the contrary, affirmation of the other is based on truth claims: love of God and of neighbor, for example, is not just a polite suggestion, but the exacting absolute injunction of God who created us «in the image and resemblance of God.»

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.

While I agree we can't go making demands and bending God into our own image, it doesn't make sense to me that a God whose defining characteristic is supposed to be love would present Himself to His creation in a way that looks nothing like our understanding of love.

So again in the New Testament, the love of God means the complete spiritual communion for which the human image of father and son offers the most important analogy.

I'm guessing, as Willow implies, that you are subconsciously rebelling against an image of a threatening, fearsome, judgmental, vindictive and hurtful god, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod, a false god; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were bogod; because you know somewhere deep inside that God is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were boGod is nothing but Love, and that you were created and born from that Love; no matter how painful the personal world may have been, may still be, into which you were born.

God creates a realm of rational freedom that allows for a union between Creator and creature that is properly analogous to the Trinity's eternal union of love; or, stated otherwise, God creates his own image in his creatures, with all that that may entail.

I love to hear preachers talking about how much God values us, made us in his image, and is willing to walk alongside of us as a loving, joyful friend.

Bunge recalls the gentle images Francke uses to describe the Word's work of breaking the self - will: «igniting a spark of true piety,» «implanting piety,» «instilling piety,» «awakening faith and love» and «giving space and room for the working of God's grace.»

Thus God takes away our sins, restores His image in our hearts, and grants to us a new birth, another chance, through the unmerited love of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Thankfully, some Christian leaders are recognizing the level of hate against Muslims has to stop — for the love of God and people made in His image.

Thus God takes away our sins, restores His image in our hearts, and grants us a new birth, another chance, through the unmerited love of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.