Sentences with phrase «perfect image of god»

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

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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.).

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.

She became for me the perfect image of the deep indwelling truth of creation, the divine Wisdom or Sophia who resides in the very heart of the world, the stainless image of God, the unfallen.

For in the first account, humankind is created in perfect equality, the final act of creation: on the sixth day «God created man in the image of himself,... male and female he created them» (Gen. 1:27).

He is the perfect image and revelation of who God is.

Jesus Christ is fully human and such is the perfect expression of the image of God.

In the same way, if humanity was created as the image of God, and if the only perfect image is Jesus Christ, this means that the living God can not tolerate sterile material images.

To be God — not just to share a spark of the divine, nor to be in God's image, nor to be a lesser divine being like the angels, nor any of the other possible subversions of the orthodox doctrine, 2 but really to be God — in any Christian understanding, this means to be eternal and unlimited, to be perfect in love and understanding.

Once this cerebral organic «supercomputer» evolves to become too big for the surrounding environment to mediate naturally the control and direction which it needs, we would think it makes perfect sense for God to infuse a free principle of control and direction, the spiritual soul, which is directly in the image of the creative spiritual Mind of God.

In him was revealed the image of God as he glorified his Father in a perfect obedience.

As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.

Man is made to the image and likeness of God but the perfect likeness is given by Christ through the incarnation.

If we believe, as Christian's, that all are created uniquely equal to one another in the image of God, as we say we do, how can we be so self - absorbed to think that God makes straight people more perfect than gay people?

If humans are miniature images of God, our decisions should likewise be perfect.

Many things in the Bible reflect this image of God, especially the confession that the person of Jesus is somehow a perfect expression of who God is.

Yet if our images of God were to assume a form corresponding to our experience of the «tender elements in the world,» we would be able to envision God's radical causal efficacy in a manner consistent with both perfect power and infinite love.

Hence, heaven is the moving image of the perfect society which lures all of life upward and forward toward that end for which God strives.