Sentences with phrase «about god the father»

Go immerse them in the teachings about God the Father, about Me, and about the Holy Spirit, which are the things I have taught you.

It is also a historical fact that Jesus was a Jew who preached about God the Father, who claimed to be God, worked miracles, and was crucified during Pilate's reign.

Having committed Himself to His Sacrifice by instituting the Holy Eucharist, that is, having entered upon His Passion, Jesus could say, about God the Father, «Henceforth you know him and have seen him» (John 14:7).

On the strictest biblical terms there must be something in common between the words we use to speak about God's being and about our being, otherwise it is impossible to see how language about God the Father, and God the Son can be meaningful at all.

Not exact matches

What did our Founding Fathers have to say about religion: «Question with boldness even the existence of a god.»

Reality, This is precisely what Scripture reveals about Jesus: «He is the image of the invisible God, the first - born of all creation» (Colossians 1:15)... which fits nicely with what you said the Saint Ignatius of Antioch said, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of God the Father».

As someone who has sat by the death bed of a sister, father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think about their loved ones not God.

... but if one is also part of God's family then I assure you, one would be talking about meeting one's Heavenly Father.

We should learn from those who are dying that the best way to teach our children about God is by loving each other wholly and forgiving each other fully - just as each of us longs to be loved and forgiven by our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.

You make things better by doing something about them, by taking your life into your own hands — not by asking an invisible, unprovable, and non-existent fairy «god» father to fix your issues.

my point was a different one: if the findings show that people tend to talk about their family before they die, then the people who are part of God's family (and thus have two families) would definitely be inclined to talk about BOTH of their families, especially as they are about to meet their Heavenly Father who is... GOD!

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

Hmm — whose prayers change things, and why doesn't all prayer change things... a friend asked for a new house — got one; another friend asked to be cured from leukemia, God didn't answer her prayers — she died; another friend asked for wisdom on how to care for her elderly father, an alcoholic — still drinks, she still has no knowledge on what to do about it — never thought to maybe look up information about elder care.

(as opposed to «outsiders») There maybe other gods but to us, only our Father in Heaven is the ONLY God we care about and worship.

The Book of Hosea in the OT reveals this same Divine perspective that Jesus» testimony about his Father reveals, a God of Unconditional Love & Mercy who always keeps his covenant with us even when we fail fulfill our obligations to God.

But beware of the more outlandish claims about the son of God (he fathered children, he was married to Mary Magdalene, he spent time in India and so on.)

I am a real Christian not a church on Sunday forget about God the rest of the week Christian.You and the others here have insulted a friend a Father to me.

Who would be interested in a book supporting and trying to gain acceptance for the doctrine based on biblical and historical evidence that Jesus died on March 25, 31 CE, at 15.00 hours, on a TUESDAY and was resurrected by His Father, Yahweh God, at about 18.00 hours, on a FRIDAY, thus fulfilling His own prophecy contained in Mat 12:40, whereas He would be three days and three nights in the tomb?

At confirmation class, this pastor spoke about being «children of God» and looked for an example to illustrate this special relationship between father and children.

I agree that God didn't pursue Adam to smash his face in, never suggested that or alluded to it, but there is no confusion where sin leads and there is no doubt about the consequences off those who love their lives, they will lose it where as those that hate their lives will find it... So to conclude, Jesus and the father are not two different things, they are both the very same in as much as God desires all to be saved and has shown the way to salvation.

If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have heard about Jesus, and that God is our father and loves us.»

Everything we read in the Bible surely has to absorbed and considered in line with our experience of God — for those of us who have travelled with God for a long time this experience (I hope) bears out a loving, caring, intimately involved Father whose example in the life of Jesus is all about love — tough, body - taking - the - brunt - of - whatever - life - throws, with the deeper soul fixed to God's promises of what lies beyond.

Hmmm, let us see what some of the experts (NT, historical Jesus scholars) have to say about the «Son of God / the Father references in the NT:

Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the point most provocatively: «As a father, God does not care enough about his children: human fathers do this better.

«For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility» Whenever Christians seriously grapple with the question of who should be included as full and equal partners in the commonwealth of the God and Father of Jesus Christ, Paul's words about Christ having «broken down...

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.

Most often this scripture passage is used to preach or teach about God's unconditional love and his patient mercy, etc., and the primary focus is usually upon the father.

St John Paul II wrote, «Christ... is the one who reveals God's plan for all creation and... «fully reveals man to man»... In him the Father has spoken the definitive word about mankind and its history....

When he heard that I was a priest he laughed and said, «Gee, Father, I hope you didn't think this was a play about God.»

But I love theology (reading and writing and discussing it) because it changed my life... how I think about God, how I interact with people, how I go about being a father and a husband, etc..

He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father.»

Nephi, for example, who is said to have written the first two books of the Book of Mormon and to have been part of the migration from Jerusalem, already knew all about Jesus: «For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God» (2 Nephi 25:19).

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

And just as fathers were telling their children about God being with them, during this feast of tabernacles, during late September, five miles away, in the little town of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ was born.

Through the examples of our parents, we learn about the love God the Father has for his children.

However, the fact that the Father himself was involved in the suffering that the Son had to bear, that the crucifixion was the result of God's «definite plan and foreknowledge» (Acts 2:23), inspires in us, if we dare to think about so dreadful a matter, a dizzying terror.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could think otherwise about how God the Father and God the Son felt about the consequences they would have to pay for our sin as somehow being a rather jolly thing to do.

Fathers and Mothers in the Christian tradition wrote long ago about this God: «God was being.

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

When writing elsewhere about living in community she said: «The Community of the Trinity is simply the Community of Love: God the Father loving God the Son, and this love bringing forth the Holy Spirit.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

The Incarnation was intended to bring about the perfection of the individual and of human society through the integration of the whole human race as a family which takes its name from God the Father.

By the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Church.

I'm not certain why it is OK for you to insult people who disagree with you and then take offense at my casual comment about the misuse of a car and the profession of loving a father being contradictory (comparing it to bringing «God» into the conversation).

The early Church read the Old Testament as the Word of God, a book about the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the God who «was and is and is to come.»

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Still the fact remains that we do know quite enough about the historic life of Jesus to catch something of his filial obedience to God, his loving concern for men, his unceasing following of the will of his Father, and his equally unceasing desire to bring the Father's shepherding care home to his children.

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.