There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;

and, being left carnal, he will be an imperfect being, possessing the image ( of God ) in his formation, but not receiving the similitude ( of God ) through the Spirit ''.

the similitude of God, by contrast, is that which makes a man a child of God and not merely a rational creature.

He does not mean to say that Adam lost the similitude of God and his immortality through the fall ; ;

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ).

Of the correspondence or similitude between our ideas of the primary qualities of things and the things themselves God alone can be assigned as the cause.

" And John Damascene says: " But furthermore, who can make a similitude of the invisible, incorporeal, uncircumscribed and undepictable God?

All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity.

It is one of the most important dimensionless numbers in fluid dynamics and is used, usually along with other dimensionless numbers, to provide a criterion for determining dynamic similitude.

Affinity laws are derived by requiring similitude between the test model and the application.

If q is the product of that curvature with the circle's radius, signed positive for epi-and negative for hypo -, then the curve: evolute similitude ratio is 1 + 2q.

In these cases the physical models require dynamic similitude.

: Is an imaginal lamp of which we have knowledge by similitude.

This generated othocentric system is always homothetic to the original system of four points with the common nine-point center as the homothetic center and α the ratio of similitude.

This similitude has been effected by Him through a law of nature.

He can also cause love and show the similitude of any person, show the same by means of a vision, and let them be in any part of the world they will.

In this paper, Vieta made use of the center of similitude of two circles.

The first number is called the ratio of magnification or dilation factor or scale factor or similitude ratio.

From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it inherited a wealth of symbols whose meanings and interrelationships — both of similitude ( مراعات نظير mura ' ât-i nazîr / تناسب tenâsüb ) and opposition ( تضاد tezâd )— were more or less prescribed.

Transplant rejection can be lessened by determining the molecular similitude between donor and recipient and by use of immunosuppressant drugs after transplant.

Bernard von NotHaus is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess and sell coins in resemblance and similitude of coins of a denomination higher than five cents, and silver coins in resemblance of genuine coins of the United States in denominations of five dollars and greater, in violation of,, and ; one count of mail fraud in violation of and ; one count of selling, and possessing with intent to defraud, coins of resemblance and similitude of United States coins in denominations of five cents and higher, in violation of and ; and one count of uttering, passing, and attempting to utter and pass, silver coins in resemblance of genuine U. S. coins in denominations of five dollars or greater, in violation of and.

Halhed's observation of Sanskrit in the preface of his book stated that he had been " astonished to find the similitude of Shanscrit words with those of Persian and Arabic, and even of Latin and Greek: and these not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutation of refined arts and improved manner might have occasionally introduced ; but in the main ground-work of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated as the immediate dawn of civilisation.

Religion and the churches were institutions which had been created by man, not God.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history.

The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: `` So God created man in his own image ; ;

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by — and is therefore distinct from — God the Father.

" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logos — as either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Also in these books, Athanasius put forward the belief that the Son of God, the eternal Word through whom God created the world, entered that world in human form to lead men back into the harmony from which they had earlier fallen away.

Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies: " We now have the whole summer before us ," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, " and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

These could be the classical virtues — courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom — that promoted the Greek ideal of man as the " rational animal ", or the theological virtues — faith, hope, and love — that distinguished the Christian ideal of man as a being created in the image of God.

Piepsam's fatal rage arises not only because he cannot stop the cyclist, but also because God will not stop him ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

For him to divorce God and wife simultaneously would be bad publicity.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him '' ; ;

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

The cold, mysterious presence of God was all around him.

Someday God would choose him.

Unless God expected a man to believe the Holy Scriptures, why had He given them to him??

-- Let me help him, for the love of God!!

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.