Sentences with phrase «unique image of god»

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

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We would expect that since Humans are created in the image of God, they would be unique and clearly distinguishable from other animals.

Rather, the soul consists of content, the totally unique creation — truly the image of God — that we call the person.

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

All people — male and female — are made in the image of God, and therefore have dignity, worth and unique strengths to contribute.

The Ten Commandments: 1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

Three decisive points are made in the three images here: the heavens are opened; the Spirit descends, giving Jesus power to perform his work; and the voice of God speaks, defining Jesus as a unique Son of God.

He is the only, the unique case of a human being as the image of God.

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).

However, even if the results turn out not to be significant enough to indicate the discovery of the Higgs boson, the intellectual and technological work involved in looking for it are a testament to the unique brilliance of the human mind, which is itself a reflection, we believe, of the Mind of God in whose image we are made.

There is a sense in which they are not all God intended for them to be; they are marred, but they are still people who bear in a unique way the image of God.

There isn't one god... And there isn't even one god for every religion... Every religious person creates a god in their own image, and prays to it... So there are actually billions and billions of different gods, each one being a unique figment of someone's imagination.

• Problems with the Origin of Biological Membranes in an Early Earth Environment • Man, Created in the Image of God - How Man is Unique Among All Other Creatures on Earth

This way of understanding the human person, which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6

It honors that person's unique dignity as a creature made in the image of God.

This notion requires much more elaboration, but the main point is that the «image of God» is not an uncorrupted one in human nature as it actually exists, and this fact prevents us from taking too sanguine a view of our divinely given, unique powers.

For life in a highly fragmented and specialized society, the pastor as theological integrator can perform a socially unique role in building provisional bridges to enable us to stay in touch with our common humanity fashioned in the image of God.

HawiiGuest When God made man in His image is what most consider to be that unique attribute of man that allows man to create.

= > Made in the image of God we posses creative capacity which opens an infinite array of expression (artistic, emotive, mechanical, etc) unique at the individual and corporate level.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

Maleness and femaleness are essential components of our unique dignity as human beings created in the image of God, for through these realities we participate in the divine creativity and its fruitfulness.

Your Jesuit education is unique in that it fosters not just the mind, but encourages you to grow in the image of God.

There is a comprehensive programme of relationships and moral education in all Catholic schools that promotes the unique dignity of each person, made in the image and likeness of God.

In such works one can trace the roots of core elements of U.S. identity such as «American exceptionalism», the still pervasive and potent belief that the US is a unique democratic nation with a God - given mission to transform the world in its own image.