Sentences with phrase «reject images of god»

They, too, reject images of God as spatially transcendent or above.

To reject this image of God is a radical theological act.

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Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

And when we reject the desires of gay Christians to express their sexuality within a lifelong covenant, we separate them from our covenantal God, and we tarnish their ability to bear his image.»

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?

First, to reject creation ordinances out of hand places our reason as creatures bearing the image of God.

Because God made the human being in His own image, the Calvinistic predestination doctrine implies that God decided to make a living being in His own image, of which he would beforehand already reject and condemn part?

You have made up God in your own image, and rejected the Spirit of Truth.

Alternatively, if the readers see that this concept of God is rejected and can not find a new one to which to relate the powerful images of political theology, they may decide that the meaning of what is said can be clarified without use of this word.

Christian feminists protest that the traditional trinitarian formulation, Father, Son and Spirit, should be rejected because it perpetuates the symbolic domination of males as the true image of God.

Becuase we see in The Book of Daniel with Nebachanezzar's dream where The Hand of God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himselfof Daniel with Nebachanezzar's dream where The Hand of God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himselfof God hewns out a ROCK to destroy the «image»»; we also see where Jesus says it is better that you «Fall upon THE ROCK and be broken (referring to Himself), than for THE ROCK to fall upon you and be crushed; we see Jesus saying THE ROCK (The Stone) that the builders rejected have become THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE (referring to Himself) and in all instances when we see THE ROCK or ROCK OF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to HimselfOF AGES or CHIEF CORNERSTONE, this is The Lord Jesus Christ being referred to OR referring to Himself).

Wills is even better on the Atonement, a doctrine now widely rejected by liberal Christians because of its alleged reliance on an image of God as patriarchal child - abuser.

Vatican II by no means rejected the image of Body of Christ, or Mystical Body, but it subordinated all the images, including «People of God,» to the theological concept of the Church as sacrament, which Karl Rahner called the Grundidee of Vatican II's ecclesiology.