that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

Although human morphology is not necessarily the ideal form for working robots, the fascination in developing robots that can mimic it can be found historically in the assimilation of two concepts: simulacra ( devices that exhibit likeness ) and automata ( devices that have independence ).

But this universal agent, whilst it is not univocal, nevertheless is not altogether equivocal, otherwise it could not produce its own likeness, but rather it is to be called an analogical agent, as all univocal predications are reduced to one first non-univocal analogical predication, which is being.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness.

Although Christ, like man, is made in the image of God, he alone shares the likeness of God the Father.

The Church Fathers interpret Ezekiel's vision of the human likeness upon the sapphire throne () as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos from the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who in many ancient church hymns is called the " living Throne of God ".

* " You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

It has been suggested that the image portrays Hannibal as Melqart, however there are no known authentic images of Hannibal and there is no proof that even Carthaginian coins such as this one show his likeness.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

" Later in the passage John says, " But this that you have now done is childish and imperfect: you have drawn a dead likeness of the dead.

The essence of this plan is a process of maturation: Irenaeus believes that humanity was created immature, and God intended his creatures to take a long time to grow into or assume the divine likeness.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

Contrary to mainstream Islam, the Ahmadis do not believe that Jesus is alive in heaven, but that he survived the crucifixion and migrated towards the east where he died a natural death and that Ghulam Ahmad was only the promised spiritual second coming and likeness of Jesus, the promised Messiah and Mahdi.

In addition, the likenesses of the characters in the comics do not bear any resemblance to their prior movie counterparts, except for Ash, who still maintains the likeness of Bruce Campbell.

On the west side of the building near the top is a carved likeness of President Grover Cleveland and Vice President Hendricks, which may still be seen today.

He drummed up work in both Franklin and Arrow Rock and, while his painting abilities were still developing, succeeded in impressing his patrons with his strong draftsmanship and ability to capture the likeness of his subject.

However, there may still be a concern that if the external world is only to be inferred, its ' true likeness ' might be quite different from our idea of it.

After the Bourbon Restoration the statue was pulled down and melted down to provide the bronze for the recast equestrian statue of Henry IV on the Pont Neuf ( as was bronze from sculptures on the Column of the Grande Armée at Boulogne-sur-Mer ), though the statuette of Victory is still to be seen in the salon Napoléon of the Hôtel des Monnaies ( which also contains a model of the column and a likeness of Napoleon's face copied from his death mask ).

The Thunderbolt eventually stops displaying Johnny's likeness while still speaking as him.

The Thunderbolt eventually stops displaying Johnny's likeness while still speaking as him.

The art in a comics adaptation can vary from original perspectives to directly copying still scenes from the film, though issues of actors ' personality rights may prevent exact likeness of film characters.

The Hi-top fade was and still is commonly called just a flattop, due to the great likeness of the two styles.

Although it was released four years after Timothy Dalton's last outing as James Bond ( in Licence to Kill ) his likeness is used in the game, most notably the opening screens ( presumably as Dalton was still under contract to appear in future films ), thus making it Dalton's last appearance in a Bond game to date.

But most importantly, the film had a flair of Eastern mystical philosophy that was not ( and is still not ) understood by most Westerners, which involves a likeness to Hindu fairytale fancy and especially Buddhism.

The Zoological Gardens of London for example once successfully managed to mate a male European wolf to an Indian female, resulting in a pup bearing an almost exact likeness to its sire.

An expression ( word, phrase ) that by implication suggests the likeness of one entity to another entity gives style to an item of speech or writing, whether the entities consist of objects, events, ideas, activities, attributes, or almost anything expressible in language.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

Biehn, upon learning of his character's demise, demanded and received almost as much money for the use of his likeness in one scene as he had been paid for his role in Aliens.

Here, Death is a cold unmerciful character and Delight has not yet become Delirium ( though her speech-bubbles have a very faint and almost imperceptible likeness to those of Delirium ).

Earlier in the year the elder Tonson was in town, and Pope, writing to Lord Oxford, said that if he would come to see him he would show him a phenomenon worth seeing, " old Jacob Tonson, who is the perfect image and likeness of Bayle's Dictionary ; so full of matter, secret history, and wit and spirit, at almost fourscore.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

His drawings always manage to capture a likeness using the minimum number of lines.

The representational realist would answer to this that ' true likeness ' is an intuitive concept that falls in the face of logic, since a likeness must always depend on the way in which something is considered.

Former chief financial officer, Joseph L. Donnelly ( who bore the nickname " Orville Redenbacher " because of his likeness to the popcorn king and always wearing a bowtie ), has been credited with preventing the company from filing for Chapter 11 and was its CEO.

It was the mixture of monstrous strangeness and unwelcome likeness that made Gemmy Fairley so disturbing to them, since at any moment he could show either one face or the other ; as if he were always standing there at one of those meetings, but in his case willingly and the encounter was an embrace.

In many instances, existing portraits of Domitian, such as those found on the Cancelleria Reliefs, were simply recarved to fit the likeness of Nerva, which allowed quick production of new images and recycling of previous material.

Convinced by her own study of the Bible, especially Genesis 1, and through experimentation, Mary claimed to have found healing power through a higher sense of God as Spirit and man as God's spiritual " image and likeness.

The scheme of colour is reticent ; had the picture been exhibited at the time of the Second Boer War of 1900, the colour would have been called khaki ; the design is simple, uniting nature to art with a rare felicity, with the likeness being found satisfactory by the sitter's friends.

Consequently, when Christian Scripture is interpreted according to the guide of divine simplicity, when it says that God is good for example, it should be taken to speak of a likeness to goodness as found in humanity and referred to in human speech.

The theory of utility, which became the keynote of his general theory of political economy, was practically formulated in a letter written in 1860 ; and the germ of his logical principles of the substitution of similars may be found in the view which he propounded in another letter written in 1861, that " philosophy would be found to consist solely in pointing out the likeness of things.

One of the four Egyptian alabaster canopic jars found in KV55, depicting what is thought to be the likeness of Queen Kiya.

" Pratt's account referred to " two glorious personages who exactly resembled each other in their features or likeness ", but this account does not include the proclamation by one of the personages " This is my beloved son, hear him ", which is found in the canonized version.

During 2000 the Royal Mail issued a commemorative stamp in his honour, but as no likeness of the discoverer of Antarctica could be found, the stamp depicted instead RRS Bransfield, an Antarctic surveying vessel named after him.

A large earthenware vessel in the likeness of Minerva was found near the modern church, which may therefore be the site of a temple of Minerva.

Kiel's likeness can also be found as the character Chuck Ferdon in the 2006 game Rugby 06 by Electronic Arts.

On the walls of the knights ’ room, not only the likeness of all the kings could be found, but also the Scythian ancestors.

A similar cake, found in Dutch cuisine, is called a Kerststol in Dutch, whilst in Italian cuisine the panettone also shows a likeness.

: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

According to local beliefs, the statue of Prajnaparamita, the goddess of transcendental wisdom in buddhist tradition, found in Cungkup Putri near Singhasari temple, was made in her likeness.

For let this mind be in you which also in Christ Jesus ; who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God ; but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in likeness of men ; and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and the death of cross.

Coins bearing the likeness of Nabatæan kings were found, along with storage jars and other vessels.

Twist won a $ 15 million verdict in 2004 when a St. Louis, Missouri jury found Todd McFarlane Productions had profited from Twist's likeness.

During this same time, the failed wizard Akar Kessel, left to die in the Spine of the World, found Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard, a magical, sentient crystal with the ability to lend power to its wielder, make tower sanctuaries in the likeness of itself, and insinuate itself into the minds of others, including that of its wielder.