So in the eyes of the Church the denial of the icon of Christ appears as a denial of the truth and immutability of the fact of His manolo blahnik shoes becoming nun and therefore of the whole Divine dispenurion. Defending the icon in the period of iconoclasm. the Church was no: Reebok Easytone defending merely its educational role, and, still less, its aesthetic value; it was fighting for the very foundations of the Christian faidt. the visible testi¬mony of Cod become man, as the basis of our sals-ation. "I have Ken the human image of God. and my soul reebok zig pulse is saved" says St. John of Damascus.1 Such an under¬standing of the icon explains the Steadfastness ansl in¬transigence with Reebok Shoes which its defenders faced torture and death in the period of iconoclasm.
If the first part of the Kontakion of the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy formulites the dogmatic basis of the icon, its second part, as we have said, by revealing the essence of the Divine dispensation—the fulfilment of God's design concerning nun—at the same time re¬veals also jimmy choo shoes the manolo blahnik meaning ami significance of the icon.
The Divine Person of Jesus Christ, Who possessed all the fullness of Divine life, zigtech and easytone Who at the same time became perfect Man (i.e. man in all things but sin), not only re-establishes in its original purity the image of Cod defiled by Reebok man in his fall ("having refashioned the soiled image to its former estate")4* but also conjoins the Reebok Easy Tone human nature assumed by Hun with the Divine life— "suffused it with Divine beauty". The Fathers of the Reebok Zig Pulse Vllth Oecumenical Council say. "He (God) recreated him (man) into immortality by giving him this inalien¬able gift. This recreation was more tn God's likeness and better than the first creation—this gift is eternal"3, the Zig Pulse gift ofcommunion with theDivinebs-auty and glory. Christ, the new Adam, the beginning of the new creature —tlie heavenly man bearing the 1 loly Spirit within him—brings nun ti» that aim for svhich tlie first Adam was created and from which he turned away through his fall; He brings him to the fulfilment of the design of the Holy Trinity concerning him: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness" (Gen. i. 26). Ac¬cording to this design, nun should be not only an image of Cod, his Cre-ator, but should also bear His likeness. Yet in the description of jimmy choo d:c accomplished act of creation "And God made man, according to the image of Cod he nude him" (Gen. i. 27). nothing is said about like¬ness. It is given to nuti as a task, to be fulfilled by the action of the grace of the Holy Spirit, with the free participitkm reebok zig of man himself. Freely and consciously, "since the expression 'according to the image' indicates capacity of mind Reebok and freedom".
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