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Verse Greek Romanization Type Translation Vulgate 405 Wycliffe 1395 Tyndale 1525 ESV 2001 Acts 17:29 θεῖον: theion [4] adjective "divine, godly" divinum: that godli thing: godhed: the divine being Romans 1:20 θειότης: theiotēs [5] noun "divinity, divine nature" divinitas: godhed: godhed: divine nature Colossians 2:9 θεότης ...
The word translated as either "deity", "Godhead", or "divinity" in the Greek New Testament is also the Greek word θεότητος (theotētos), and the one verse that contains it is this: Colossians 2:9 "Quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis [divinity] corporaliter." (Vulgate) "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead ...
The Catholic Church states that idolatry is consistently prohibited in the Hebrew Bible, including as one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3–4) and in the New Testament (for example 1 John 5:21, most significantly in the Apostolic Decree recorded in Acts 15:19–21). There is a great deal of controversy over the question of what constitutes ...
The phrase "image of God" is found in three passages in the Hebrew Bible, all in the Book of Genesis 1–11: . And God said: 'Let us make man in our image/b'tsalmeinu, after our likeness/kid'muteinu; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
Images of God the Father were not directly addressed in Constantinople in 869. A list of permitted icons was enumerated at this Council, but symbols of God the Father were not among them. [90] However, the general acceptance of icons and holy images began to create an atmosphere in which God the Father could be symbolized.
For example, in Genesis 1:26, it is written: "Then Elohim (translated as God) said (singular verb), 'Let us (plural) make (plural verb) man in our (plural) image, after our (plural) likeness '". In the traditional Jewish understanding of the verse, the plural refers to God taking council with His angels (who He had created by this point) before ...
The word is used to denote the Supreme Divinity/Supreme Soul. Isvara ( ईश्वर ) shortened as Isha ( ईश ) is applied to mean 'God' in both religious and secular context (for example in the Gita , Arjuna is referred to as Manujeshvara which is a compound of the two words manuja , 'human' and Ishvara , thus the word means 'God of ...
Bible – a collection of writings by early Christians, believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ, written in first-century Koine Greek. Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about what should be included in the canon, primarily about the Apocrypha, a list of works that are regarded with varying levels of respect.