He is the Father who married the Mother and fathered Jesus the Son Individual human beings can aspire to become other
Gods the Father holding sway over their own swaths of the universe.
It is
God the Father holding «dominion over all things,» a dominion he «exercises through his Word.»
Luther's distinction between law and gospel seems to express this view, as does the vision of the twentieth «century Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska, which portrays a wrathful
God the Father holding back from the application of terrible justice only because He sees man through the wounds of His Son.
Not exact matches
I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my
father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my
father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging
God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in
God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that
God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my
father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will
hold... so many things like that..
The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were
held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with
God the
Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.
We let the tinies read the Bible verses and I looked down the table at my
father, his once curly red hair now a close - cropped white,
holding the Bible open for my son, listening to Joe read about the love of
God towards us all.
Similarly, the apostle Paul declares that there's «one
God and
Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all,» and that Jesus Christ
holds all things together.
On the contrary, if
God is the loving
Father Jesus
held him to be, it is irrational to doubt
God's ability or willingness to deal with individuals.
John 20:17, RS: «Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalene], «Do not
hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the
Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my
Father and your
Father, to my
God and your
God.
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the
father decides what they should do, how
God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please
God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take
hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
I know which one is my
God, and my
Father, and what my future
holds.
There is something going on, before
God grabs a
hold of us through His Word, and His Spirit... but it is other than the authentic relationship of a
Father to child.
In the third century Church
fathers like Tertullian and Cyprian
held that sins committed after baptism dishonour
God and that we need to offer him some «satisfaction» by way of compensation.
It is he who has left for us that striking and charming picture of
God as a loving
father leading his people as though
holding the hand of a toddling infant in its first uncertain steps:
Anyone who wishes to call himself a Christian must
hold that the statements «
God is good» or «
God is our
Father» are more adequate to the reality of
God than is the statement «
God is made of Tupperware.»
The cosmos takes on a new lustre as
held in being by the One
God who is
Father, Son and Spirit.
20, 10) still discernible in Augustine's City of
God and political writings — perhaps the best (i.e., most well — executed) instance of a Church
Father justifying war in the face of the «nonviolent assumptions»
held by his forebears and some contemporaries.
This reading
holds that
God the
Father has two sons: the Jewish elder brother and the Gentile younger.
Similarly, Baptists
hold that «the eternal triune
God reveals Himself to us as
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.»
But 1 Pet and others
hold the answer: «Praise the
God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has CAUSED US TO BE BORN AGAIN.»
That said, he continued, «Christians
hold that Jews and Muslims are not worshiping
God rightly - as the
Father who revealed Himself in the Son and is understood by the guidance of the Spirit in Christ's body the Church.»
She and I were discussing the Christian doctrine that
holds that one
God subsists in three persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The earliest
Father's, even before Origen but he taught this too, taught that these people (the one's
God ordered killed including children, etc) went to the
holding place and that they are the ones that Christ spoke too when He, «descended into hell» (The Apostles Creed).
Fortunately the Founding
Fathers were wise enough to insist on our freedom to pray to whatever
God helps us keep our lives in some kind of perspective but at the same time insist on there being something that we
hold true above all else that we don't create.
Jesus Christ's wisdom You believing something doesn't make it true I'm not
holding my breath You own those labels Humble yourself and ask Jesus for forgiveness Reprobate minds Jesus told us he would give you reprobate minds After their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears Satan's lies causes confusion Atheists write this garbage Satan is death You are fooling yourself if you don't tell gays they suffer for eternity Tortured for eternity Pathetic Blame it on the Christians for having the guts to tell idiots
God's truth Your
father Satan End of days taught in Jesus» truth is nothing new to Christians Another rock.
Why is it that you break so many of
God's commandments, yet
hold the traditions of your
fathers in such high regards, that you teach them as doctrine?»
I continue to
hold to the scripture's principle, «
God makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good; his rain to fall on the just and the unjust... be as perfect as your heavenly
father is perfect» [Matt 5] So, all the «blessings» that church institutions control — from greetings to church welcoming — should be extended to the LGBT.
To be sure, Yahweh was not a new
god; at least the Kenites had been acquainted with him; the Judean Document, which scholars call «J,» in its final form
holds that the
fathers had known him, and he may have been a deity of the tribe of Judah.
Later in the OT,
God says that children will not be
held accountable for the sins of the
father.
Listen, I get that the Bible says, «And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God the
Father through him,» (Colossians 3:17) but I highly doubt putting someone in a choke
hold and simultaneously punching them in the temple is what was intended when that was written - especially considering that the verse follows the commands to «let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.»
In the same passage, the Council
Fathers stress that the «one true religion subsists in the Catholic and Apostolic Church,» and that «all men are bound to seek the truth, especially in what concerns
God and his Church, and to embrace the truth they come to know, and to
hold fast to it.»
Along the lines of self - corrective: I find Hildegard's images of the Trinity are great, especially the one where
God the
Father looks like Jesus (Jesus: the icon of the
Father), the Holy Spirit is a shining angel
holding the lamb (Jesus).
In his opinion we are counterfeit; he
holds aloof from our doings as though from filth; he proclaims the final end of the virtuous as happy and boasts of having
God for his
father.
Metaphors for
God include those of governance: the righteous judge committed to just rule and opposed to exploitation; the noble king who rules wisely and righteously in undoing the wiles of the wicked and protecting the innocent and victims from abuse; the loving
father who cares for and yet
holds Israel accountable; and the warrior who implements a rule that is both just and compassionate.
The Christian position does not
hold by such views; and so assertions about
God the Creator of Heaven and earth, the Almighty One, were placed in the Creed to safeguard the Fatherhood of
God by making clear that He who is our
Father is also the Ruler of all things.
Believe we shouldn't be underestimating being colored nor feel inferior... but rather cling a good
hold of those languages culture traditions that are felt for with pride... Why I will tell you that as a Muslim believer I believe that
God has created our
fathers Adam and Eve from a multicolored earth (Clay).
God is real, Jesus is real, satan is real, good is real, evil is real, sin is real and so is salvation & man's need for it... we all have a choice to make & it is a choice that we will be
held accountable for: believe
God & receive salvation through His Son, or reject them... I simply pray for all who don't believe in Our Heavenly
Father & His Son; I pray you will come to His marvelous light
Whether or not you find this position, one
held for centuries by countless Christians (church
fathers, saints, and regular Christian folk like me), to be valid, I trust that we can peacefully disagree on theological points and affirm others like the Triune
God (albeit there are differences here as well — Athanasian Creed, anyone?)
The ability to employ this sort of metaphor, however, seems to rest on a confidence that things really are associated, that the center
holds, that the web is not broken — that, in other words, the universe is in some sense sacramental, that
God is somehow the true and original
father, that all things are connected among themselves because they are connected in
God.
Sometimes they
held that, since the true
God can never suffer, the spiritual Christ descended upon the man Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism; Jesus then perfected his virtues and announced the
Father; but before his sufferings and death the Christ withdrew again from the man Jesus, and it was only the man Jesus who suffered and died and rose again.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite
god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the abo
god comprised of
God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the abo
God the
Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply
held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
«I think
God has really blessed him with his dad's good's looks, his dad's name, and then
God gave up on him,» he added, referring to Mr. Powell's
father, who
held Mr. Rangel's seat before him.
When a few Giants disrupt the ceremony intended to promote Thor (Chris Hemstreet) to the throne
held by his
father Odin (Anthony Hopkins), the younger
god wants to strike at them.
The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under
God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by
holding that a California
father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.
Dressed like soccer referees, the trinity is also, for Roccasalva, a depiction of Zurvan, the Persian
god of infinite time, space, and fate,
father of twin brothers, who are the personification of good and evil.Finally, all the elements are
held together by a text in violet neon that can only be read by looking at it in the mirror.
His mother is a Protestant and his
father is a Catholic, and since both of his parents do not go to church and do not
hold the same practices in their household, they both end up not taking their children to church or teaching them spiritual values or even about
God.