Irenaeus believed the first stage is complete, but the second stage requires humans to develop and grow into the likeness of God, a stage which Irenaeus believed is still in progress.
This is because what passes for myself does not, always, feel quite like the self that is framed in the image of God and is thus united with those around me and is, allegedly, growing with them into His Likeness.
Perhaps the description is a bit overstated: Artists aren't being hauled into court every time they include a recognizable face in their work, but the growing sense that one's likeness is a "property" that can be commercially exploited has led many artists to feel less secure in pursuing realistic figurative images.
We are, in no uncertain terms, called to be like Christ, and if we will choose to allow it, we will grow into His holy likeness, increasingly and forever.
However, growing evidence based on clinical and metabolic studies suggests its high phenotypical likeness to type 2 diabetes, and "ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes" has been proposed as a provisional name and is being used elsewhere (4, 8, 12).
Ari's one of a growing number of actors who have confronted near-perfect replications of their own likenesses.
There is a growing body of literature describing the properties of marketed drugs, the concept of drug-likeness and the vastness of chemical space.
The growing worldwide aversion to unifying bodies such as the E.U. is based on tribalism, and tribalism draws on the perception of likeness.
Due to the number of possible combinations growing exponentially with the number of molecular fragments, a modified Rule-of-Five is applied to exclude those compounds that do not satisfy drug-likeness criteria.
After learning of the growing nocturnal culture of gueules cassees, Anna repurposed her sculptural skills to create extremely lifelike electroplate masks that she would then paint to the likeness of the soldier's former self.
