Sentences with phrase «spiritual image of god»

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The good news that Jesus practiced and that mormonism malpractices is that spiritual man is always the image and likeness of God, who is all the life there is.

Of course, the great new dispensation will occur in that fabulous place imaged in the spiritual songs as «heaven» where God reigns supremely and with justice.

«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.

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.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

because we are all spiritual beings we, too, can expand our spiritual consciousness and be more of the image and likeness of God that we were meant to be.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

We are made in the image of God as a spiritual being.

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.

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.»

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.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

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.

There are other Latin patristic bridal mystics as well, and, contra Messrs. Clark and Schrader, they use the image of spiritual marriage to describe the individual believer's union with God.

exactly — people pick and choose bits and pieces of whatever faiths, ideas or memes help them build the picture of their god in their minds, the parts that * feel right *; brick by brick they're just building a spiritual alter - ego of their own selves, we create god in their own image;

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: «Man occupies a unique place in creation: (I) he is «in the image of God»; (II) in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material worlds» (91).

Created in the image and likeness of God, principally in the soul, he yearns for more; he yearns for the soul's trueenvironment which is the love and knowledge of God, for the goal and purpose of all spiritual nature is to rest in God.

If we affirm, however, the apostolic confession about Christ, that «in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell» (Col. 1:19), then we can neither look for God in the heights nor construct well - reasoned images of the spiritual; rather, our focus must be wholly directed to the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us.

These spiritual aspects (called the «image of God» in traditional language) are what make man human.

First he emphasized that man's self - transcendence in his spiritual nature is the biblical doctrine of the «image of God.»

In the creation of the world through long evolutionary processes, God has made man «in his own image» — that is, with spiritual qualities akin to those of God.

(2) The biblical view also «emphasizes the height of self - transcendence in man's» spiritual stature in its doctrine of «image of God.»»

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.

Physical matter is intrinsically determined, and spiritual mind, whether of man or of the Transcendent God in whose image he is made, is intrinsically a free determiner.

Human beings, who are the unification of physical matter and spiritual mind in one personality, are at the top of this cosmic pyramid in which we, uniquely, and primarily in our spiritual souls, are made in the image and likeness of God.

He spoke on the value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.

In John's image of God, moreover, it is clear why in the Synoptic gospels the first and greatest commandment is always the commandment to love, and why John echoes this in the final commandment which Jesus gives his disciples, and why Paul singled out love as the greatest of the spiritual gifts.

Rather, it is for him a profoundly spiritual question, because he finds behind authoritarianism an image of God which refers to a severe ruler who does not support humans in their own being but hinders them.

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.

For it is possible to think that man is the image of God only insofar as man is a spiritual being, as indeed so many Christians have thought over the centuries.

I would only hope we recognize that our new nature (which can not sin) is alien to our old - nature we drag with us, and it is by God's grace any of us are subject to God's conforming us into the image of The Son and building us up as a whole with all the saints into the full measure of spiritual adulthood belonging to the Humanity of our great God and Savior Jesus our Lord and Master.

A law which properly has only this meaning: to release man from the world, to separate him from any interest in an independent cultural development, and to humble him in obedience to the transcendent power of God — of a God, whose image is not in any sense determined by the conception that man has of his own highest spiritual life.

If we don't remember that the battle is not against the flesh (as in other human beings) but is against the spiritual forces of darkness, aren't we at risk of diminishing the image of God in the other person?

The truth about man is that while he is indeed created «in the image of God», he is in a state of spiritual insufficiency so pervasive and so disturbing that he can not live authentically as a man, much less as a «son of God».

That is our true, spiritual nature; the image of God.

Here's a description from the dust jacket:... Marty pursues the metaphor of «winter in the heart» to trace the spiritual journey that has been described in many images: the dark night of the soul, the cloud of unknowing, the negative way to God.

Jesus lived a life that had uniquely matured into the full human divinity that is the apex of human spiritual evolution; the divinity which it is our destiny to ultimately grow into as humans «in the image of God» (or the gods, or however you care to translate it).

Objective intelligibility is something known immediately and actively by the spiritual mind — in the image of God's creative fiat.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church confirms the Penny Catechism's emphasis that we are primarily («most especially» CCC 363) in the image of God in our spiritual soul.

Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal woGods During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal wogods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world.

At the moment of the advent of man, this necessary mediation of control and direction is taken over by the spiritual soul, which is in the image of God.

Man, created in God's image, has spiritual existence, not as something added to his bodily substance, but as the expression of that concrete body - mind unity which he is as a person.

It is in the struggle for economic justice that one can begin to grow to the fullness of one's moral and spiritual stature with freedom and dignity, created in the image of God to be creator of the good.

We are made in the image and likeness of God, and the spiritual reality of the universe is that we are in the midst of a cosmic struggle between heaven and hell, between right and wrong.

«When we took a closer look, we found that patients with stronger spiritual well - being, more benign images of God (such as perceptions of a benevolent rather than an angry or distant God), or stronger beliefs (such as convictions that a personal God can be called upon for assistance) reported better social health,» said lead author Allen Sherman, PhD, of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

An extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers «a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God.»

A diminished image of the A-bomb, Nietzsche's furrowed brow, a-maze-ing Jesus, orgone accumulators, omnipotent gods, Tibetan Buddhist prayer... all are used to discuss a sense of spiritual bankruptcy and a perceived usurpation of religious faith by faith in power, science, violence and state.

He pulls at the threads of a particular narrative of spiritual bankruptcy, in which modern man has killed the old gods and replaced them with his own image — which is not necessarily a good thing.