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- god–awful /gɑd ˈ ɑːfəl/ adjective Britannica Dictionary definition of GOD–AWFUL [more god–awful; most god–awful] informal + sometimes offensive
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Definition. Divine transcendence and immanence are the related Christian doctrines that while God is exalted in his royal dignity and exercises both control and authority in his creation (transcendence), he is, by virtue of this control and authority, very present to his creation, especially his people, in a personal and intimate way (immanence).
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Yes, God is a person. But, when we say that God is a “person,” we do not mean that He is a human being. We mean that God possesses “personality” and that He is a rational Being with self-awareness. Theologians often define person as “an individual being with a mind, emotions, and a will.”
Apr 22, 2022 · Anger at God is a result of an inability or unwillingness to trust God even when we do not understand what He is doing. Anger at God is essentially telling God that He has done something wrong, which He never does. Does God understand when we are angry, frustrated, or disappointed with Him?
Jun 6, 2023 · - Biola Magazine - Biola University. What Does it Mean for Us to be the ‘Image of God’? Jason Newell — June 06, 2023. On the first page of the Bible, we read that humanity is created “in the image of God” — a phrase that has inspired a great deal of theorizing and theologizing throughout the centuries.
- Influential Views of The Image of God
- A Moral-Interpersonal Perspective
- An Analysis of The Imagoqualities
- Modern Psychology and Cultural Anthropology
- Implications For Ministry and Mission
The view that God’s image in humanity reflects certain physical characteristics has dominated various periods of church history but is now almost universally abandoned, inasmuch as Scripture, apart from anthropomorphic language, consistently denies bodily attributes to God the Father.5 The first occurrence of the expression ‘the image of God’ appea...
After the incident of the golden calf, Moses despairs of his ability to continue to lead the children of Israel. He asks God for reassurance that Yahweh’s personal presence will continue to guide him and requests further insight into the nature of that presence. Specifically, he asks to know God’s ways (Ex. 33:13) and to experience God’s glory (33:...
Merciful26
A merciful person is not only emotionally compassionate but also active at meeting others’ needs. These include the primary needs which psychologists stress as well as higher-level needs according to hierarchies of self-actualization. Mercy assumes that the caregiver is wise and sensitive to others’ conditions and willing to make interpersonal contact and to use one’s resources to meet needs. The merciful person will also try to influence others who could help the needy. God’s compassion or m...
Gracious27
Gracious persons are interpersonally warm and relaxing—people feel at home in their presence. The Psalmist praises the advantages of a person who is gracious and compassionate in right relationships out of respect for Yahweh (Ps. 112:4–5). Jesus’ beneficial manner of dealing with friend, enquirer and critic helped those who accepted his style of relationship to develop a sense of fulfilment. So impressed was John, who labelled himself Jesus’ beloved disciple, with Jesus’ graciousness, that he...
Slow to anger28
God is very patient with people about their sin, giving time for repentance and change. He predicted the destruction of many cities’ (e.g. Tyre and Jerusalem) and empires (e.g.Assyria and Babylon) generations before judgment fell, trying to get them to do what they knew was good according to God’s image in them. The prophet Jonah predicted Nineveh’s destruction for their evil, but when they repented God relented, explaining to Jonah that he was a ‘gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger...
Psychology
The major contemporary psychological theories of the human person are humanistic in essence and disagree with the biblical doctrines and world-view in important ways. For Carl Rogers, each human is basically good, with a tendency to actualize his or her potentialities. This self-fulfilling force may be constricted by one’s evil social environment, resulting in maladjustment, or it may be freed by other fully-functioning people. The major self-expressed values in the fully-functioning person (...
Cultural anthropology
After premature claims earlier in this century that anthropology had proved that there were no cross-cultural moral or interpersonal absolutes common to humanity, recent research has tended to refute these claims. A spate of studies enables one to compile a fairly lengthy list of universally desirable moral or ethical behaviour traits and/or sanctions against failing to exhibit these traits.50The following list culls from these sources those cross-cultural ethical universals which most closel...
If a moral and interpersonal image of God remains, however distorted, in all human beings, then Christian witness and evangelism, especially in cross-cultural contexts, ought to utilize this fact to its best advantage. We can expect the characteristics of compassion, love, truthfulness, forgiveness, justice, and so on, to be desired, to varying deg...
Nov 14, 2019 · Owen Strachan examines what it means to be made in God’s image, and what the gospel does to our humanity—it makes us more truly human as God created us. In Adam you are fully human, but only in Christ can you be truly human.
Dec 21, 2019 · NLT. This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength. ESV. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
