People are created in the image of God, which means that they have moral agency.
It is another way in which you and I can work out the image of God that resides in us.
"I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart, " said Brownback, a Roman Catholic.
The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.
These arguments and evidence are based on the dignity of all human persons and the fact that each individual is created in the image and likeness of God.
And so when I realized that, well, if he says that we were created in the image and likeliness of God, then I have the same ability.
In one mailing, replacing an image of Michelangelo's God's hand with one depicting the ruins of Petra produced a 21.8% lift in sales from its Great Courses catalog.
It carries an image of Moctezuma himself, flanking that of Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and the sun.
This is perhaps the most radical teaching of faith that the value of life is not contingent on wealth or strength or skill, that value is a reflection of God's image.
John, finding himself before the Throne of God, sees a lamb, an image of Christ, who receives a scroll sealed by seven seals.
But he seems like a man who would seek to define a clear message, tackling problems with a stern glee, a missionary zeal to challenge a world he feels has gone badly, sadly wrong, and that needs to be re-made in God's image, with the authority of Rome.
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