Hence Paul, though in Judaism he had learned to
call God Father, felt that because of Christ he could approach the Father in the spirit of an adopted son, not of a slave (Romans 8:15 - 17).
Everyone can worship their Creator... the Lord of the Universe... who Christians
call God the Father... so say the Lord's Prayer it was Jesus's answer when His disciples asked Him «How to pray?»
Besides summing up in one great word what the Bible is trying throughout to say, to
call God Father, in addition, shifts the emphasis from God's concern for the nation to his love for the individual.
the Son of God called Jesus, even if only a man by ordinary generation, yet on account of His wisdom, is worthy to be called the Son of God; for all writers
call God the Father of men and of gods.
For years and years I couldn't
call God Father in my prayer because my relationship with my human father was so painful.
The others
he called God the father and God the holy spirit.
By
calling God his Father, Jesus is «objectivizing an unworldly reality and making it worldly».
They have been given the great privilege of
calling God Father, therefore they must walk in godly fear (1:17).
Two persons
calling God Father may express by that name widely divergent meanings.
They prayed without ceasing and
called God our Father.
Not exact matches
The plainest reason why the Son of
God is
called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of
God sent in order to reveal his
Father's mind to the world.
Only infantile humans who seem to need some kind of invisible «
father figure» gravitate towards this ridiculous fantasy
called «
god»!
The
God of Israel is the One whom Jesus
calls Father and teaches us to
call Father (John 17:1 - 5; Matthew 6:6 - 13).
They worship the one whom the Son of
God calls the prince of darkness, the
father of lies and a murderer from the beginning.
He's certainly a religious man, he knows the prophets, he
calls out to
Father Abraham and yet
God says, «This person suffered just outside your gate and you received everything in this world that you needed.»
In Isaiah 9:6, He is
called «The mighty
God» and «The everlasting
Father,» and we read in Micah 5:2 that Jesus is «from everlasting.»
Only
God is to be
called Holy
Father, or
Father.
They wanted to say that Jesus was truly one with that
God whom he
called Father, lest it should seem that what he had accomplished did not really overcome the gulf that separates us from
God.
He
calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that
God is his
Father.
I don't want to go to a service that
calls God «
Father» all the time, uses male chauvinistic language, and doesn't respect feminists.
The
Father is plainly
called «
God» in dozens of places, and this would have been a good place to say that Jesus was
God.
That One, Only and True
God WE Christians
call Him
Father, the
Father, our
Father.
God will be
calling him back home, I just hope he responds to our
Fathers call when the time comes.
God also has a name
called Abba
Father; Which means Daddy
There are several locations in OT and NT describing how Jesus would be referred to: «He shall be
called,» Isaiah said the Messiah would:, «His name shall be
called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty
God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace» (Isaiah 9:6).
The
Father is
God, and that is why there is no verse that
calls the
Father the image of
God.
Human Beings — Created by
God (
call Jesus &
God Father)-- Don't
call Jesus Brother?
Jesus was with
God in the beginning when
God said, Let us make... Jesus is the second person of the Godhead which we
call the Holy Trinity being the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit» Please look up the following Scriptures: John 1:3, Romans 11:36, 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15 - 16.
Dear friends in Jesus Christ, I believe that
God has
called me to build a Church for him, not with bricks and mud, but with people's hearts, for may be
God is speaking to you through me in the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of
father to theirs children and the children to their
father's to prepare the way for our Lord.
The priest probably came to the part in the ceremony where the baby boy was named, and began to pray, «Our
God and the
God of our
fathers, raise up this child to his
father and mother, and let his name be
called in Israel, Zacharias, the son of Zacharias.»
Calling Jesus the image of
God squares beautifully with his statement that, «Anyone who has seen me has seen the
Father» (John 14:9 and 10).
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
And he will be
called: Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty
God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
The Christian is
called, not to reproduce the externals of the life of Jesus, but to live in the spirit of Jesus: as St. Paul would say, to know the indwelling presence of the Spirit whom
God has sent into our hearts, by whom we can venture to
call God «
Father».
In that same Scripture, Isaiah 9:6 also says that «his name will be
called...» and then goes on to list a bunch of names: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
The familiar passage where Yahweh
calls himself «a jealous
God» and threatens to visit «the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,» (Exodus 20:5.)
The Jesus we see in Matthew's Gospel is the person who is perfectly obedient to the will of
God, so that the one who
calls us is the one who himself hears and truly obeys the
Father's will.
Isaiah says that «his name will be
called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.»
It should also be noted that Jesus instructed his followers to not
call anyone
father, since we have only one Father, God in heaven (Matt 23:8
father, since we have only one
Father, God in heaven (Matt 23:8
Father,
God in heaven (Matt 23:8 - 11).
They had made a priority of focusing on what they
call the «upward» and «inward» journeys — to
God as
Father and into the heart to bring healing.
The Holy
Father describes in similar terms Jesus» Ascension into heaven: «He, who has eternally opened up within
God a space for humanity, now
calls the whole world into this open space» (p. 287).
Considering the incredibly enormous number of innocent people killed by
God, the
father, son, holy ghost, or whatever you want to
call him, your argument is worthless.
Isaiah 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be
called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God, Eternal
Father, Prince of Peace.
* 1Corinthians 8:5 - 6: «For even if there are so -
called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many «
gods» and many «lords»), yet for us there is but one
God, the
Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.»
When
God calls Abram out of his
father's house, Abram is clearly enticed by the promise of greatness and prosperity.
Jesus, who made known
God to the world,
called him a «
Father.»
God is not literally a
Father and there is no reason not to picture
God as a mother or to
call on «
God, our Parent.»
Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is
called and which is
God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
This is the maturity of sonship to which
God the
Father is
calling us, and for which he has prepared us by means of the very heritage which has led to the advent of the new world.
Peter is paralleled to Abraham who also had his name changed, was a
Father to
God's people, and was
called the Rock (Isaiah 51:1 - 2; Gen 17:5).