Rather than interacting with a single male father - figure, Mackenzie interacts with 1) Papa (a big black woman who
represents God the Father), 2) Jesus (an ordinary - looking Jewish man who obviously represents Christ), and 3) Sarayu (an ethereal female presence who represents the Holy Spirit).
Second, Jesus came and exactly
represented God the Father while He was on earth, and Jesus was a grace wholesaler.
Not exact matches
Gary, when are you going to learn, no man can
represent God, Only His Spirit can
represent Himself in and through man, Jesus ascended to be with our
Father, then He sent down His Holy Spirit for them that
Father gave to Him: I do not
represent GOD, it is His Spirit in and through man that
represents Himself, To
GOD be all the GLORY: Man get's none!!!
«In Early Christian art and Early Medieval art it is found in both the East and Western churches, and
represents either Christ, or sometimes
God the
Father as part of the Trinity.
«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.»
God the
Father represents the transcendent aspect of
God: creator of the universe, beyond all that we know.
he is neither identified biological as male or female... I only refer to He since
God is
represented as my
Father... He is LIKE a
Father to me
In the Old Testament we read of Tamar's desperate evening with her
father - in - law Judah, Hosea marrying the prostitute Gomer to prophetically
represent Israel's unfaithfulness to
God, and Rahab, a prostitute and brothel owner in Jericho, who heroically enabled Joshua's spies to escape.
Mormons neither believe in the trinity or the deity, they
represent Jesus as a prophet, not the son of man or
God the
father.
As a result, the son told his
father that he could never believe in or follow a
God like that or trust anyone who
represented him.
The cross, and Jesus dying there, reinforces the welcome that it
represents — we are invited into intimacy with
God the
Father, and with our family in Christ.
Jesus Christ sacrifice
represented 4 very important points: (A) channel for us when praying in forgiving our sins (B) The opportunity to learn the truth about Jehovah
God's Universal Soverign Government and the role Jesus would play as King of the government along side his
Father Jehovah
God.
The film — which is based on a novel by William Paul Young — tells the story of a grieving
father who meets
God in the form of three individuals who
represent members of the trinity.
There is only one
God (The
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - The Great I AM) and he is manifest in three distinct personages;
God the
Father who is the head and sits on the throne, The Son who is the creator of everything seen and unseen, the savior of mankind (the last sacrifice for sin) and redeemer of all the whole earth who is the only legitimate heir, and The Spirit who
represents the very power of The Holy
God.
Out of loyalty to both the
gods and to the memory of the murdered
father, the mother must be destroyed, the mother who
represents security, warmth, religion, authority, but who has become corrupt and an evil bearer of all that she is supposed to
represent.
Substantial truth may lie in the Scripture's verbal anachronism which
represents Yahweh as saying: «I am the
God of thy
father, the
God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob.»
Happily, this debate has appreciably subsided, although in certain quarters there are still those ready to tilt to the death on behalf of what is, alas, an idol — a deified book
representing the reduction of Israel's Yahweh (and in the New Testament Christ's
God and
Father) to a particular combination of ink letters preserved on lifeless sheets of paper bound together between a pair of cardboard or leather covers and known as the Bible.
Sixthly, Christ's threefold prayer upon the cross is
represented; one for His persecutors when He said,
Father, forgive them; the second for deliverance from death, when He cried, My
God, My
God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?
A character like Viktor Frankenstein
represents not only a
father figure but a
god capable of creating life without the presence of a female.
The
father in that story
represents God who is always on the lookout for us to come back to our true home.