Sentences with phrase «other images of god»

Not exact matches

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

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

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

None of the other creatures was Created like Adam in the image and likeness of God.

According to a legend, when Muhammad eliminated all the images of other gods in the Ka» bah, he refused to destroy the statue of Mary and the infant Christ.

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.

That's the danger with the anthropomorphism of God... one people making self idolizing images of themselves of a human God vis - à - vis Jesus, making graven images of themselves, blonde hair blue eyed Jesus»... then elevating themselves above all other men, a self reinforcing feedback to oneselfs, as if they are Gods, which is blasphemy.

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.

After the other animals Genesis 1:25 - 27 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and the cattle after their kind... And God said, Let us make man... So God created man in his own image.

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.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

And yet what is equally true is that we are each made in the Image of God, which means (among many other things) that our worth as humans is never diminished by our actions.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

And it is this God who consistently fails to appear in Process and Reality, other than as a negative or a kind of after - image.

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.

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

All are in the same situation and no authority — not scriptural status, liturgical longevity, or ecclesiastical fiat — can decree that some types of language, or some images, refer literally to God while others do not.

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.

Though revelation stands at the center and the proper study for the Jew is not simply man, but man confronted by God, we encounter the image of God when we encounter the Arnoldian best that has been thought and said, and we understand ourselves and others better when we confront the voice of the other.

On the other hand, don't most of us know people who look and act nothing like what we suppose someone created in God's image should look and act like?

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.»

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

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.

He was repeating the old story: the first birth of all peoples in God's image, stamped with reason and able to see each other as a neighbor, to be awakened in the second birth» in water and fire» of Christian charity that brooks no injustice.

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.»

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.

In the 1800s, Norman Macleod, in the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»»

A question for Timelesswheelman: Why is it that, unlike other religious believers who are faced with images of their prophets, gods, etc, Muslims appear to be the only religious group that goes absolutely bat - shaft crazy and murderous when someone, for example, publishes a cartoon of the prophet?

When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.

Even though the image of the cross has been misused to subordinate women and other Christians, the NT»S understanding of faithful obedience to God is impossible without it.

Similarly, in James 3:8 - 9, we read that we should not curse other people because all are made after the likeness or image of God.

When Genesis talks about Adam (and all of Adam's descendants) bearing the image of God, it refers to something other than our physical appearance.

Indeed, we may not cherish each other's body and life as we ought unless we discern in one another the image of the God who calls us to himself.

Human beings differ from other creatures in that we are made in the image of God.

In the Reformation preaching image the Word of God may wrongly be equated with the solid lines of type in the book; the solidity of the pulpit may be misrepresented as the authoritativeness of something or other; and the preacher's power to interpret may be mistakenly equated with some kind of weight — not necessarily the girth of his stomach, but perhaps the athletic cut of his shoulders, or more probably the weightiness of his voice.

To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»

Is it possible that the image of God is revealed through us, those who follow Jesus, and is it possible that it reveals itself when we love and honor others, including and especially those who we might consider the unlovely?

Is it possible to honor and respect others and learn to love them because we remember that they too were created in God's image, regardless of the situation in which they may be now?

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Even though that image may not always be easy to see in me and in others, I choose to honor others and the image of God in them by getting to know them so that I may learn to care about them and love them with the love of Jesus.

I would put it the other way and say that God deifies himself in us when we become perfectly detached, and that's the nature of God's creation of humanity as the image and likeness of God — imago Dei.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that God desires to reveal himself, and would contend that the fact that humans are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), even if fallen, provides some basis for some understanding of his character.

Nevertheless, each can acknowledge the other's relation to truth when each cares more for God than for his image of God.

But man is created in the image of God, and both our own life and the lives of others belong to God.

The Ten Commandments: 1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

And I had to work through those other things — which had to do with being female, and leaming that I really am made in the image of God, that God really does have a preference for the oppressed and the outcast.

In Colossians 1:15 - 20, along with some other versions, we see that Christ is the perfect image of God.