The phrase
"to become flesh" is a biblical expression that refers to the incarnation or embodiment of a divine being in human form.
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What was new was that the
word became flesh, flesh which died and was laid in a tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
The ghosts of
empire become flesh and blood in this awe - inspiring, exciting and provocative exhibition.
32 The Word
becoming flesh in Jesus «is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original sacred, the death of God himself.»
It's because the Son of
God became flesh and emptied himself of his omniscience.
All good gifts, both physical and spiritual, descend from the Father of mercies, through the Eternal Word
who becomes flesh in Jesus Christ.
In contrast to the religious way of world - negation, «What is distinctive to Christianity is a witness to an incarnation in which
Spirit becomes flesh in such a manner as to continue to exist and to act as flesh.
The word of God
which became flesh in Jesus Christ moves in human life, often secretly, often unrecognized, yet persistently becoming the luminous word through which we begin to understand what every love really is.
Christ became flesh to remain flesh, to become a living symbol for the man of radical faith living in the time of the death of God.
This theology emphasizes that the most decisive experience of God is not in doctrine, creed or ideas but in the Word made flesh — and in the Word
still becoming flesh.
They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal
Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
I obviously dissagree with the Catholic church's stance on hmoosxeuality, and I think their belief in transubstantion (in church you are genuinely supposed to believ that the
waifer becomes flesh and the wine becomes blood) is down right ridiculous; but that is not the point of my objections here.
Love, joy, peace, and
hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.
Then, this
plan became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and tabernacled among us.»
If Jesus Christ is the model of God's being in the world, if the word does
indeed become flesh, then God addresses us in person, as «you»; God comes to us through human beings, and God has touched the whole of human experience.
Though the Word
now becomes flesh, the fleshly become unaware of their own understanding ways... For as one sees one does nary understand yet as one thinks one dares to know things and while one and all beget themselves they become set apart and distanced from each others ways.
In that household he discovered that the word
rarely became flesh — that the teaching of Jesus rarely became the reality of Jesus.
In Paul the preexistent Son of God surrenders his divine nature and status to become a man, even a slave, for man's sake; in Mark he becomes a man, but without surrendering so completely his divine powers — they are only held in abeyance for a while; in John the Word
becomes flesh without any significant surrender of divine prerogatives.
However, while in his earliest work he thinks it «probable» on balance that the Word would not have
become flesh unless we had fallen [5] in the later De Veritate he says that the primacy of Christ is the end to which the whole of creation is ordered and is the principle of our predestination into the supernatural life.
On the anniversary of Chávez's death, the current Venezuelan president declared that «Christ the
Redeemer became flesh, became spirit, became truth in Chávez» and was «the Christ of the poor, the Christ of the humble, he who came to protect those who have had nothing.»
This is the concern motivating the contemplative life, and it is a concern of spiritual theology: to focus attention on the way we live, the means that we employ to embody the reality and carry out the demands of Jesus who
became flesh among us.
April 14, 2012 at 9:46 am God the conceptualization was long before
man became flesh and bones!
Only the Christian can celebrate an Incarnation in which God has
actually become flesh, and radical theology must finally understand the Incarnation itself as effecting the death of God.
This
synthesis became flesh in the gastronomic world which produced the new Mexican foods for which Mexico is famous today.
Just as male and female were split into duality, so they chose duality through the «Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil» (read: they chose to
become flesh on the material plane in the «solid earth» that we live in currently), in order to come to this plane to «work back» to the original divine androgyny originally intended.
The church fathers would read of humanity made in the image of God and think: Yes, we all bear the image of the divine Logos that was in the beginning, who in due
time became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1, 1:14).
He writes as though he knew that God never bends physical fact into special conformity with divine intention; the Word
never becomes flesh by making physical fact as immediately pliable to his expression as spoken symbols are.
What we said: «In general, Death of the Outsider occasionally feels like a Dishonored 3 that hasn't
quite become flesh and perhaps, never will, going by sales of the second game and of Arkane's most recent immersive sim, Prey.
The Guggenheim retrospective is titled «The Trauma of Painting»: to those seeking literal trauma Burri is, to use another of Sweeney's phrases, «St Januarius of the Collage», whose discarded
materials become flesh and blood in the presence of the living; to those looking for a more figurative trauma, he deconstructs the flatness and purity of modernist painting.
Up close and personal, leaning away from the viewer but her deep blue eyes directly confronting us, Branded is an uncompromising self - portrait by Jenny Saville in which thickly - impastoed
paint becomes flesh spread across the canvas for us all to see.
«There are no single brains... Through the biochemical alchemy of template and transcription genetics,
experience becomes flesh, love takes material form, and culture is passed through a group and carried forward through time.»