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1 3 | patriarchal conception of God nourished by an essentially
2 3 | the fact that the Son of God assumed human nature in
3 4 | progressively manifested thanks to God's intervention on behalf
4 5 | the image and likeness' of God constitutes the immutable
5 5 | creative power of the Word of God, which makes distinctions
6 5 | human race takes place: “God said ‘Let us make man in
7 5 | Gn 1:26). And then: “God created man in his own image,
8 5 | own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
9 5 | explicitly declared “the image of God”. ~
10 6 | sexual difference. Formed by God and placed in the garden
11 6 | place, in the sense that God's creation of woman characterizes
12 6(5)| exploitation if we remember that God too is at times called ezer
13 6 | persons in the image of God”. 8 ~Through this same spousal
14 6 | similarity with the Triune God, whose Persons, with the
15 6 | itself, in accordance with God's will, the integration
16 6 | Here we find the heart of God's original plan and the
17 6 | created by him. Although God's original plan for man
18 7 | receive and live the Word of God as well as their relationship
19 7 | the gift of the garden, God gives them a positive command (
20 7 | essential difference between God and humanity is implicitly
21 7 | when humanity considers God its enemy, the relationship
22 7 | their access to the face of God risks being compromised
23 7 | being compromised in turn. ~God's decisive words to the
24 7 | man and woman according to God's original plan, are lost.~
25 8 | likeness of the personal God”. 10 Their equal dignity
26 8 | reflection and image of God who is Love – is disclosed
27 8 | original goodness, declared by God from the first moment of
28 8 | by the disharmony between God and humanity introduced
29 8 | correspond to the initial plan of God for man and woman, nor to
30 8 | third chapter of Genesis by God's promise of a Saviour,
31 9 | just man, who guided by God, avoids the flood with his
32 9 | But it is above all in God's choice of Abraham and
33 9 | salvation is confirmed. God begins in this way to unveil
34 9 | Among the many ways in which God reveals himself to his people (
35 9 | understanding the way in which God loves his people: God makes
36 9 | which God loves his people: God makes himself known as the
37 9 | If, in this relationship, God can be described as a “jealous
38 9 | described as a “jealous God” (cf. Ex 20:5; Nah 1:2)
39 9 | the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you” (Is 62:
40 9 | parallel to the mystery of God's action through the male
41 9 | the joy of mutual seeking, God's love for his people is
42 9 | of the relationship which God establishes with his people,
43 9 | work of salvation which God is about to undertake. This
44 9 | figure and the Servant of God, before culminating at the
45 9 | the great new things which God is about to do (cf. Is 48:
46 10 | had applied to the love of God for his people, described
47 11 | couple by the break with God caused by sin. For Christian
48 11 | man and woman as willed by God at the beginning, that is,
49 12 | referred to the plan of God, has been erased. He means
50 12 | face-to-face encounter with God. ~From the first moment
51 13 | learn to know the face of God inasmuch as they receive
52 14 | created in the image of God is one and indivisible.
53 15 | Church, as received from God and accepted in faith. It
54 15 | presence of this mystery of God's love, manifested in Jesus
55 15 | attitudes and the actions which God expects from her. ~The existence
56 15 | and receiving the Word of God, because faith is not so
57 15 | not so much the search for God on the part of human beings,
58 15 | recognition by men and women that God comes to us; he visits us
59 15 | nothing is impossible for God” (cf. Gn18:14; Lk 1:37),
60 15 | of trust in the Word of God. ~It is from Mary that the
61 15 | the infinite humility of God. She who received the broken
62 15 | of love, as revealed by God in the life of his beloved
63 15 | of praise for the work of God's hands: “The Almighty has
64 16 | Jn18:36). From the Son of God one learns that this “passivity”
65 17 | humanity's conversion to God, so that both men and women
66 17 | and women may come to know God as their “helper”, as the
67 17 | without humble prayer to God for that penetrating gaze
68 17 | accord with the heart of God, she who is “blessed among
69 17 | this way, can the “image of God”, the sacred likeness inscribed
70 17 | with the revelation that “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8,16).~
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