• The "image of God" (Hebrew: צֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים, romanized: ṣelem ʾĔlōhīm; Greek: εἰκών τοῦ Θεοῦ, romanized: eikón toú Theoú; Latin: imago Dei) is a concept...
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    Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. Christians believe in a monotheistic conception of God, which is both...
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    representation of a god used as an object of worship, while idolatry is the worship of an "idol" as though it were God. The use of images in the Ancient...
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    belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or...
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    sanctified the human image, noting that the humanity of Christ formed an image of God; therefore, artists could use human images to depict the incarnate...
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  • like the soul, it is also created by God in his image. This is considered important even today, as the existence of a soul is the basis for much Church...
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  • The gender of God can be viewed as a literal or as an allegorical aspect of a deity. In polytheistic religions, gods often have genders which would enable...
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  • "image of God". From the biblical perspective, "to be human is to bear the image of God.": 18  "Two main modes of conceiving human nature—the one of which...
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    Robert Smith (priest) (category Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni)
    scientific, cultural, and religious perspectives. He was the author of In the Image of God. Born on February 7, 1932, in St. Albans, New York, a neighborhood...
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    Herman Bavinck (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    of what constitutes the image of God in humanity, "the idea that a human being does not bear or have the image of God but that he or she is the image...
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  • In Christianity, the title Son of God refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father or the lord. It derives from several uses in the...
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    then written on stone tablets by the Finger of God. It continues, "... any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that...
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    Ubuntu theology (category Politics of South Africa)
    are drawn from the image of God. Human beings are called to be persons because they are created in the image of God. The idea of Ubuntu has always existed...
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    translations of the phrase include "my cup overflows" and "my cup is completely full". The 23rd psalm, in which this phrase appears, uses the image of God as a...
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  • theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share...
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    tradition teaches that while images of God, the Father, remain prohibited, depictions of Jesus as the incarnation of God as a visible human are permissible...
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    dispose of their dead. It is dishonoring to the body, intended as a temple of the Holy Ghost and to bear the image of God. It is an insidious denial of the...
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    For instance, the phrase false god is a derogatory term used in Abrahamic religions to indicate cult images or deities of non-Abrahamic Pagan religions...
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    created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful...
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    form of "God the Mother", a female image of God. They believe that there are two images of God: God the Father and God the Mother. They base this doctrine...
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    associating attributes of God with a created being. According to Vincent J. Cornell, the Quran also provides a monist image of God by describing the reality...
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    God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity. In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the First Person of the...
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  • Image of God Must Go". Some of the letters and articles for and against Robinson's views were published by the end of the year in The Honest to God Debate...
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  • concept of imitatio Dei—generally taken to be a mitzvah—in Judaism is derived, in part, from the concept of imago Dei, being made in the image of God. Not...
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    include depictions of God the Father. For instance, while the 82nd canon of the Council of Trullo in 692 did not specifically condemn images of the Father, it...
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    of the Image of God. The biblical basis for the belief is generally found in Genesis 3 (the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of...
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    the image of God underneath it all. The old, dying female werewolf can be interpreted as a personification of Ireland and a symbol of the passing of the...
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    friends represents God rejoicing with the angels. The image of God rejoicing at the recovery of lost sinners contrasts with the criticism of the religious...
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  • alienation from God and the image of God in oneself and others, resulting in spiritual ignorance and rebellion, the progressive loss of divine likeness...
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    the firmament (Hebrew: רָקִ֫יעַ‎ rāqīaʿ) is the vast solid dome created by God during the Genesis creation narrative to separate the primal sea into upper...
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