Sentences with phrase «use images of god»

True, the Israelites did, from time to time, use images of God in worship (Exodus 32, I Kings 12:25 - 33, II Kings 21:1 - 18).

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In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture of the Son of God.

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

Saint Paul uses the same image: «God who said «Let light shine out of darkness,» has shone in our hearts» (2 Cor 4:6).

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

That is, you're using the whole of Scripture and you have passages that are «proofs,» but you also have passages that are more about what it means to be made in the image of God and, also, a woman.

Just as we have often succumbed to the danger of recasting the Scriptures in our own images through selective use of them, so we have also humanized the sacraments by making them our own acts rather than God's.

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

Though people may describe themselves by using terms like «gay» or «queer» which are commonly used in today's culture, as Christians who believe in man created in the image of God, we should ask if these cultural terms are, in fact, true ontological categories of the human person, in accord with the blueprint of human existence.

Bunge recalls the gentle images Francke uses to describe the Word's work of breaking the self - will: «igniting a spark of true piety,» «implanting piety,» «instilling piety,» «awakening faith and love» and «giving space and room for the working of God's grace.»

God's messengers used vulgar images to shock their religious audience out of complacency.

In fact, the use of such images by the missionaries to get across the Christian message obviously reinforced some of the Pulayas» pre-existing notions of God.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

The goodness of love as created by God is taken up again by the prophet Hosea, who uses the continuing infatuation and affection he has for his wife, Gomer, as an image of the love Yahweh has for his people Israel.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

The parables in Mark 4, based as they are in the context of agriculture, make use of several images derived from nature and the divine activity in the process of nature, to speak of the concept of the Kingdom of God.

Making use of images derived from familiar experience, Jesus subverts and explodes «myths that build or maintains structures, values, and expectations that thwart the actualization of God's rule... «85

They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom of God, to an audience predominantly consisting of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were in constant relationship with nature in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience of pathos and joy.

After describing in some detail the principle of complementarity in physics, Austin suggests that images of God as Father and as Judge are complementary models used to interpret individual and corporate experience.24 The prophet Amos, he points out, interpreted events in Israel's history primarily in terms of God's judgment, while Hosea understood events in terms of God's forgiveness.

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.

Secondly, we know that Jesus made use of the image of a feast to signify the blessings of the kingdom of God consummated in a world beyond this.

The Nature and Destiny of Man used the theological categories of image of God, original sin, original righteousness, grace, the Kingdom of God, and the last judgment.

Finally in this chapter we will touch briefly on the difference between speaking conceptually of God and speaking in images, and the appropriate use of each.

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.

In a number of cases we are told that they are «nothingnesses» — so we render the contemptuous word; but indeed it has common use as a normal term for foreign images: all alike, the gods and their symbols were nothing at all.

The third image used to understand God's consequent nature is that of the Poet.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.

Colossians 1:15: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Paul articulately asserts the truth of the Incarnation in Colossians 1, but his use of «firstborn» does not mean that there was a time when the Son of God wasn't (any more than John 3:16's use....

Anyabwile frequently uses terms like «dirty,» «yucky,» «repulsive,» «disgusting» and «icky» to describe fellow human beings, created in the image of God, and this is unacceptable.

Although Paul uses other figures to describe this saving work of Christ (as, for example, his having become a new Adam, a new representative man, thus restoring in the race the image of God which sin had marred), this is his most characteristic interpretation of the meaning of the man Jesus and his work.

In performing an act that is traditionally limited to God, as Job 9:8 indicates, Jesus by his use of «I AM» reveals the identity and destiny of the new humanity, that community of «life - giving spirits» that is willed by God to be transformed into the image and stature of the risen Lord.

They were not inconsistent; but, knowing that no particular image can really represent God, they felt free to use almost every kind of verbal imagery.

These are only some among the many pictures which Christians were already using in the first century to express their belief that God encountered men through the acts and words of Jesus; that in the end it was not merely possible but necessary to say that Jesus is God, not only that he is the image or mirror of God; and that Christians may and should pray to God through him (which means, to pray to God as made known in Jesus) and even pray to Jesus as God.

Sayings about anxiety used by Matthew in the Sermon on the Mount are presented next by Luke (Lk 12:22 - 32; Mt 6:25 - 33), coupled with one which combines the images of God as Shepherd, Father, and King.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

It is connected with God's whole use of law, of guilt, and of grace, but Brunner's interpretation does not arrive at the determinative nature of the image of God in man.

«Please do not tell girls or women that they share equally in God's image; that they are equal at the foot of the cross; that they are equal in the kingdom of God, that they should cultivate their minds equally, unless you are prepared to give them equal authority to use the gifts God has given them.

Dan Gilgoff's reference and use of the word «Christianity» is also very misleading as so - called Christians are followers of an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24; 2 Cor.

Therefore it is proper to use that image of love - in - the - making when we think of God himself.

I use the word narrative as a synonym for «god,» with a small «g.» I know it is risky to do so, not only because the word «god,» having an aura of sacredness, is not to be used lightly, but also because it calls to mind a fixed figure or image.

I think we have to be very careful of using God's name in vain, of creating Him in our image and using Him to win arguments.

Because God's grace is at work in marriage, Jesus teaches us that our marital unions are capable of lifelong fidelity, signified by the prophet's use of marriage as an image of God's enduring covenant with Israel: «I have loved you with an everlasting love» (Jer.

My findings indicate that all entreaties to make the family, now headed and directed by billionaire younger brother, Dr. Deji Adeleke, see the death of the lawmaker as act of God which should not be used to tarnish the image of the government fell on deaf ears.

The shot was used as the basis of a pop art screen print by Andy Warhol, as well as the image that helped make the cover design of punk band the Sex Pistols» hit, «God Save the Queen.»

These range from images of gods to objects used in worship.

Today, for the first time, Volvo is revealing images of the front end or «face» of the new XC90 SUV, which is distinguished by its T - shaped running lights, christened «Thor's Hammer» by the design team after the shape of the hammer used by the famous Norse god of thunder Thor.

Further, believers can share the ways in which God uses struggles and successes to form us into the image of His Son.

If you take the bus from Cusco to Puno, the first stop will be in the picturesque and cozy town of Andahuaylillas to visit the Sistine Chapel of America (named for its beautiful murals, paintings of the Cusco school, its beautiful images and its magnificent works in wood), then visit the Inca Temple of Raqchi dedicated to the god Inca Wiracocha, built in Inca imperial style (finely carved stones) and has pre Inca and Inca constructions that were used as religious, administrative and monitoring center in the ancient Inca empire.

Even if it was nothing else Titanfall would be a prime candidate to be used as an example of why the artificially created hype machine is a bitch that elevates games to God - like status, an image that they can never hope to truly live up to.