Sentences with phrase «revealing god the 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.

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».

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

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.

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.

The names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit point toward different revelations of the one God, which is most fully revealed in the name Lord (= Father) Jesus (= Son) Christ (= Spirit).

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

Father Ron developed his theme: Children look like their parents; Jesus as God's Son reveals what God is like.

He came to reveal the Father to us, to show us all the ways that we have misrepresented and misunderstood God.

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....

As has happened so often in the history of the Church, it is when something is attacked (in this instance male / female marriage, a male priesthood, the notion of God as a Father, to name just three things routinely savaged) that deeper insights are perceived and richer truths revealed.

To not believe that God has revealed himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is to not be a Christian any longer.

For them, the Incarnation was not an afterthought but is The Mystery at the heart of God's creative purpose hidden in the Father's heart from all eternity and revealed in Christ in the fullness of time.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

«God revealed Himself in the Bible pervasively as king not queen; father not mother,» Piper said.

The Scriptures contain much that is true, very much, but in the light of your present teaching, you know that these writings also contain much that is misrepresentative of the Father in heaven, the loving God I have come to reveal to all the worlds.

Third answer: Amen to both these claims with the addition that it is the same God — creator — also revealed in Jesus of Nazareth who has drawn near to our fathers and mothers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah and Rachel, and whose presence we ourselves feel here and now, day after day.

While it is true that the event of the Crucifixion, or the movement of the universal process of atonement, reveals the self - estrangement of God, a polarity manifesting itself in the yawning chasm between the Father and the Son, a consistent and radical form of faith must never fall into a nondialectical dualism by wholly isolating the alien God and the incarnate Word.

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.

As we get to the end of time, and the bible tells us to look for certain signs, then God the Father will Reveal the time.

Though innocent of all violence attributed to Him, God allowed the violence committed by others to be laid upon His head so that He might take the blame and thereby rescue and deliver mankind from most of the self - destructive consequences of their sin, and reveal Himself to mankind as a loving Father who takes our sin upon Himself for our deliverance from the consequences of sin and for the sake of our relationship with Him.

If Jesus is the exact representation of God and is the image of the invisible God (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), but during His life and ministry never revealed the aspect of God as a warrior, then there are only two options: either God is not a warrior and Jesus did truly reveal the Father to us, or Jesus was being deceptive.

In previous posts I have suggested that Jesus became sin for us (2 Cor 5:21), and since Jesus reveals the Father to us, it seems to follow that maybe this is what God was doing in the Old Testament in the violent sections.

It seems from such statements that Edwards knew not God, nor Jesus Christ who has revealed the Father to us (John 14:9; Col 1:15).

And it is sure to reinforce the growing, salutary conviction that Christians can not be children of their Father in heaven without their older brothers and sisters in the faith, the people of Israel to whom the living God revealed his proper name.

If God is revealed through Jesus, who said, «Father, forgive them for they know not what they do,» and «love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you», and we are made in his image — how could a loving father that looks like Jesus want to predestine some to hell and some to hFather, forgive them for they know not what they do,» and «love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you», and we are made in his image — how could a loving father that looks like Jesus want to predestine some to hell and some to hfather that looks like Jesus want to predestine some to hell and some to heaven.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the name of the Triune God, revealed to us by the incarnate Word Himself and the Holy Spirit, through Holy Tradition and Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the first seven Ecumenical Councils.

If one thinks of God only as the Father - Creator, he can be a long way off; if one thinks of God only as the Father - Creator revealed in Christ, the Historic Character, he can be a long way back; but when one perceives God as the Father - Creator, revealed in the Historic Character, and now become the Divine Spirit in us, our unseen Friend and abiding Companion, that is an experience to sing about.

God the Father - Creator, revealed in the Historic Character — period.

Most importantly, God revealed Himself by sending His Son, the incarnate God, who reveals His Father to us.

Jesus says to Peter, «My Father in heaven has revealed this to you,» and when Jesus predicts his fate, Peter's response is, «God forbid.»

This man, Jesus, is revealed as the Son of God by the Father Himself in the most solemn terms.

God revealed through Jesus» words and life and through the life and witness of the Apostles and Church Fathers who God is, Three Persons in One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that Jesus is God Incarnate, the Word made Flesh.!

Therefore, since Jesus Himself says that He reveals the Father to us, could it not be that just as Jesus was innocent, even though He appeared guilty, so also, God appears guilty of all the crimes that are ascribed to His name, even though He also is innocent?

«It is the one and the same God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility and reasonableness of the natural order of things upon which scientists confidently depend, and who reveals himself as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.»

«Christ, the Son who is of one being with the Father, is therefore the one who reveals God's plan for all creation and for man in particular.

God revealed Himself to him by reminding him of His eternal covenant with His grand father Abraham.

Jesus came to reveal to us God as our heavenly Abba / Daddy / Father.

On the Cross, the Word reveals the Father: Jesus is not the Man looking at an angry God, but God looking at angry men - with forgiveness, with compassion, not merely inviting our contrition but handing over the Spirit (John 19:30) to create our conversion so that Jesus may powerfully draw all things to Himself (John 12:32) and work a cosmic redemption.

Almighty God, father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, revealed to us so powerfully in your Son, Jesus Christ, we thank you for showering your blessings upon this our beloved nation.

What is particularly new, in contrast to pagan notions of God, is that the Son in showing us the Father has revealed that God is a Person whose very substance is love.

He revealed the Father who sent Him, above all by His Sacrifice, the New Covenant, God's irrevocable pledge of loyalty.

Father is how God has revealed himself to us in scripture, again, in a manner in which we can understand.

The Son's mission reveals that «God is Father in an unheard - of sense» (CCC 240).

«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).

I haven't elevated the Bible into some fourth member of the Trinity and I believe Jesus reveals God, that the Bible is often a story of how wrong we've gotten our understanding of God and how Jesus came to clearly reveal the heart of the Father.

In the events of Holy Week we have seen that in Jesus, God has been revealed as a Father who loves, and who desires to reconcile all human beings to Himself.

23 This points Gutiérrez in the direction of where God as love is to be recognized in our presence: «To believe in the God who reveals himself in history, and pitches his tent in its midst, means to live in this tent — in Christ Jesus — and to proclaim from there the liberating love of the Father.»

Secondly, in that situation there is made available to it, or revealed to it, a characteristic and meaning in the Object — the divine reality — unknown from other perspectives, namely, the reconciling nature and activity of a God who is Father and Son, and also Holy Spirit.

Christ is «of one substance with the Father»; but the utmost, and inmost, it is given us to know of God's «substance» is that he is love — as such he is revealed in Christ — and love is not a metaphysical essence but personal moral will and action.