Sentences with phrase «seeing images of gods»

I see an image of God in the wonder and awe of this very existence.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

I see the image of God in the Bible as through the generations a remnant is continually brought through the wickedness that longs for the promise of God.

Unlike many of the early church fathers who, under the influence of Greek philosophy, sought to identify the image of God with human reason, Niebuhr, following Augustine, saw the image of God as the self - conscious and self - transcendent character of man's whole self.

For a theology of nature from a Reformed perspective not directly influenced by process thought but one that sees the image of God in relational terms, see Hall, Douglas John, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1966).

We need God to take our blinders off — to help us see how we are all connected — to help us see the image of God in «the other» — to help us stand in the gap like Nehemiah and Jeremiah — to own the reality that the forbearers of our Christian American faith were not transformed in these respects and the consequences still live with us.

They saw the image of God as constituted by the «original righteousness» with which God endowed Adam.

Convinced that she can see the image of God in the stucco, she needles Henry into letting her bring over her priest (George Lopez) to substantiate her discovery.

Not exact matches

For example, I've seen a lot of «man was created in God's image» interpretations to help you think you've validated your position, but I can clear that one up for you right now.

These people that proclaim that they have seen an image of Mary of God are as lost and crazy as all of these Anti-Christ (Atheists / Agnostics) are.

We each have different wonder and awe within and physically as this is the image of God, this is why each of us sees a slightly different vision.

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.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

When we look at the Book of Genesis, we see that the first thing God is looking for is quite simply «images» by which to communicate who - God - is (Genesis 1:26 - 27).

For it to be designed implies there is a designer and to be in the image of God to be created and seen as being good meaning that in your truest sense of who you are, you are good and if that is brought to the for you can't help but do good — it being like breathing,

God sees our current sins and corrects us BECAUSE His purpose with adopting us is to restore us back to our original purpose in Genesis pre sin of reflecting His image, which we have all following short of.

Their purpose, as Nouwen explained, is to pull one into the image in order to see through it and beyond it to the heart of God, to the reality of the great Mystery.

Calling Jesus the image of God squares beautifully with his statement that, «Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father» (John 14:9 and 10).

But most days, at heart I see myself as shepherd, as caretaker, as fortunate steward of these small people, these images of God.

The Aramaic roots of the verb for «to see God» evoke the image of a flash of lightning that appears suddenly across the sky.

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?

I see the salvation process as part coming to an awareness of what you already are, created in the image of God or what some may call being born of the Spirit and given the gift of faith.

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.

«I feel like part of being made in the image of God is that we have an ability to see that which is good.

I would suggest also that one way into such a new doctrine of analogy is a new understanding of man or history as the image of God, wherein historical development and evolution could be seen as a reflection or embodiment of the development and evolution 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.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.&raqgod of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.&raqGod.»

Our dual images of God in the Testaments start to merge together when we see that the suffering of Christ began in his Father's heart at the dawn of creation, when we see God our Father bearing the cross for our sins.

For Genesis, my view is that God wants to communicate that he is the Creator of all that there is, that he has given humanity a special image - bearing role within it, but our sinfulness has broken that relationship, et cetera — but that he doesn't see a need to give them a science lesson first.

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.)

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.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God - 2 Corinthians god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they can not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God - 2 Corinthians God - 2 Corinthians 4:4

In the image of the crucified man, Jesus the Christ, the Christian may see the historical revelation of this self - sacrificing God out of whose absolute generosity the world is allowed to be.

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.

2 Corinthians 4:4, NET: «among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.&raqgod of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.&raqGod.»

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.

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This was not, as we shall see on further analysis of the image, a naive biblicism that equated God's Word with the literal words of the Bible.

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.

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

It is a bizarre image, but it sometimes seems to me that the Hartshornians conceive of God as a rickshaw boy rather than a charioteer, as Whitehead himself saw it.

As we have seen several times before, the criterion of genuine hope in God's promise consists of a willingness to temper the sacramen - talism of our dreams by a willingness to look mystically into the future symbolized by our images, by a steady posture of patience and silence, and by a transformative praxis that refuses to escape from the troubles of present history.

snif Christ was the full reflected image of God so we could see and understand the full attributes of God.

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«Good Shepherd» to us means what we seen in a stained glass window, but in this country Good Shepherds come in all sizes, shapes, ages and colors — Men in jeans, boys in cowboy hats, a Navajo with lamb in hand keeping it from the coyotes — to Ezekiel, all are images of God.

Seeing from Scripture that we were made in the image of God, we argue that the goal of life is to empty ourselves and become more like God.

He is the only possible way of seeing God, and at the same time he is the true image of humanity.

Hearing the Word of God no longer matters; now seeing and looking at an image are central.

It is not so much God who is seen as it is the image of a man (as in the book of Revelation).

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.