Assertion: god | /r/HasProperty | the father
Facets:
value: in the new testament
type: LOCATION
value: in much
type: OTHER
value: father
type: OTHER
value: in the old testament
type: TEMPORAL
value: in transcendence
type: OTHER
value: in psalm
type: LOCATION
value: for does the will of god
type: PURPOSE
value: according to marianne thompson
type: OTHER
value: with a unique sense of familiarity
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: This is most probably because of how God "the Father" relates to Jesus, who is the Son of God.
text: The Trinity is an office held by three separate gods: a god called the father, a god called the son, and a god called the holy spirit.
text: According to Marianne Thompson, in the Old Testament, God is called "Father" with a unique sense of familiarity.
text: God and Deity: Father, Son, & Holy Spirit Bible teaching about the one true living God:
text: For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.
text: Because he called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
text: Since we have an issue of authority in discussion related to gender, it makes sense to say that we would have God the Father and not God the mother since the male gender, biblically, represents authority.
text: In Psalm 89:26 God is referred to as Father.
text: In transcendence, God is described as all-encompassing mother and father, full of love and happiness.
text: In much of modern Christianity, God is addressed as the Father, in part because of his active interest in human affairs, in the way that a father would take an interest in his children who are dependent on him and as a father, he will respond to humanity, his children, acting in their best interests.
text: ONE GOD, THE FATHER , of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.'
text: Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from GOD THE FATHER , and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father , in truth and love.'
text: The one true God is the Father of Jesus, GOD THE FATHER.
text: The Most Holy Trinity comprises God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.
text: However, this did not immediately translate into large scale depictions of God the Father.
text: Even supporters of the use of icons in the 8th century, such as Saint John of Damascus, drew a distinction between images of God the Father and those of Christ.
text: Prior to the 10th century no attempt was made to use a human to symbolize God the Father in Western art.
text: It appears that when early artists designed to represent God the Father, fear and awe restrained them from a usage of the whole human figure.
text: By the 12th century depictions of God the Father had started to appear in French illuminated manuscripts, which as a less public form could often be more adventurous in their iconography, and in stained glass church windows in England.
text: In the 14th century the Naples Bible carried a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush.
text: The Rohan Book of Hours of about 1430 also included depictions of God the Father in half-length human form, which were now becoming standard, and the Hand of God becoming rarer.
text: In the Annunciation by Benvenuto di Giovanni in 1470, God the Father is portrayed in the red robe and a hat that resembles that of a Cardinal.
text: God the Father with
text: The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father using an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal crown, specially in Northern Renaissance painting.
text: In a Trinitarian Pietà, God the Father is often symbolized using a man wearing a papal dress and a papal crown, supporting the dead Christ in his arms.
text: Representations of God the Father and the Trinity were attacked both by Protestants and within Catholicism, by the Jansenist and Baianist movements as well as more orthodox theologians.
text: Artistic depictions of God the Father were uncontroversial in Catholic art thereafter, but less common depictions of the Trinity were condemned.
text: God the Father is symbolized in several Genesis scenes in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, most famously
text: The Church of the Gesù in Rome includes a number of 16th-century depictions of God the Father.
text: In some of these paintings the Trinity is still alluded to in terms of three angels, but Giovanni Battista Fiammeri also depicted God the Father as a man riding on a cloud, above the scenes.
text: In both the Last Judgment and the Coronation of the Virgin paintings by Rubens he depicted God the Father using the image that by then had become widely accepted, a bearded patriarchal figure above the fray.
text: In the 17th century, the two Spanish artists Diego Velázquez (whose father-in-law Francisco Pacheco was in charge of the approval of new images for the Inquisition) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo both depicted God the Father using a patriarchal figure with a white beard in a purple robe.
text: While representations of God the Father were growing in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Low Countries, there was resistance elsewhere in Europe, even during the 17th century.
text: Later in the 17th century Sir Thomas Browne wrote that he considered the representation of God the Father using an old man "a dangerous act" that might lead to Egyptian symbolism.
text: In 1667 the 43rd chapter of the Great Moscow Council specifically included a ban on a number of symbolic depictions of God the Father and the Holy Spirit, which then also resulted in a whole range of other icons being placed on the forbidden list, mostly affecting Western-style depictions which had been gaining ground in Orthodox icons.
text: The Council also declared that the person of the Trinity who was the "Ancient of Days" was Christ, as Logos, not God the Father.
text: God the Father says regarding Jesus:
text: God the Father in glory Raphael 's famous 1518 depiction of Prophet Ezekiel 's vision ofin glory
text: God the Father is a title given to God in various religions, most prominently in Christianity.
text: In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and the third person, God the Holy Spirit.
text: An image of God the Father by Julius Schnorr , 1860
text: For instance, after completing his monumental work Summa Theologica, Catholic St. Thomas Aquinas concluded that he had not yet begun to understand 'God the Father'.
text: 1 Corinthians 8:6 shows the distinct Christian teaching about the agency of Christ by first stating: "there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him" and immediately continuing with "and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
text: To Trinitarian Christians (which include Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and most but not all Protestant denominations), God the Father is not a separate God from God the Son (of whom Jesus is the incarnation) and the Holy Spirit, the other hypostases of the Christian Godhead.
text: In Eastern Orthodox theology, God the Father is the arche or principium ("beginning"), the "source" or "origin" of both the Son and the Holy Spirit, and is considered the eternal source of the Godhead.
text: As a member of the Trinity, God the Father is one with, co-equal to, co-eternal, and consubstantial with the Son and the Holy Spirit, each Person being the one eternal God and in no way separated: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent.
text: The Trinitarian concept of God the Father is not pantheistic in that he is not viewed as identical to the universe or a vague notion that persists in it, but exists fully outside of creation, as its Creator.
text: The emergence of Trinitarian theology of God the Father in early Christianity was based on two key ideas: first the shared identity of the Yahweh of the Old Testament and the God of Jesus in the New Testament, and then the self-distinction and yet the unity between Jesus and his Father.
text: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' depiction of God the Father and the Son Jesus
text: A number of Christian groups reject the doctrine of the Trinity, but differ from one another in their views regarding God the Father.
text: LDS Church members believe God the Father presides over both the Son and Holy Spirit, where God the Father is greater than both, but they are one in the sense that they have a unity of purpose.
text: LDS Church members believe God the Father presides over both the Son and Holy Spirit, where God the Father is greater than both, but they are one in the sense that they have a unity of purpose.
text: In Jehovah's Witness theology, only God the Father (Jehovah) is the one true almighty God, even over his Son Jesus Christ.
text: While the Witnesses acknowledge Christ's pre-existence, perfection, and unique "Sonship" from God the Father, and believe that Christ had an essential role in creation and redemption, and is the Messiah, they believe that only the Father is without beginning.
text: God the Father is emphasized in Jehovah's Witness meetings and services more than Christ the Son, as they teach that the Father is greater than the Son.
text: God the Father is the title of the Supreme Creator.
text: For about a thousand years, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in human form, because early Christians believed that the words of Exodus 33:20
text: Central Italian School 16th century Head of God the Father
text: In the early medieval period God was often represented by Christ as the Logos, which continued to be very common even after the separate figure of God the Father appeared.
text: By the twelfth century depictions of a figure of God the Father, essentially based on the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel had started to appear in French manuscripts and in stained glass church windows in England.
text: In the 14th century the illustrated Naples Bible had a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush.
text: By the 15th century, the Rohan Book of Hours included depictions of God the Father in human form or anthropomorphic imagery.
text: The depiction remains rare and often controversial in Eastern Orthodox art, and by the time of the Renaissance artistic representations of God the Father were freely used in the Western Church.
text: Abba (Father in Hebrew) is a common term used for the creator within Christianity because it was a title Jesus used to refer to God the Father.
text: In Mormonism the name of God the Father is Elohim  and the name of Jesus in his pre-incarnate state was Jehovah.
text: Together, with the Holy Ghost they form the Godhead; God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
text: Although Mormonism views the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as three distinct beings, they are one in purpose and God the Father (Elohim) is worshipped and given all glory through his Son, Jesus Christ (Jehovah).
text: Despite the Godhead doctrine, which teaches that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three separate, divine beings, many Mormons (mainstream Latter-day Saints and otherwise, such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) view their beliefs as monotheist since Christ is the conduit through which humanity comes to the God the Father.
text: Despite the Godhead doctrine, which teaches that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three separate, divine beings, many Mormons (mainstream Latter-day Saints and otherwise, such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) view their beliefs as monotheist since Christ is the conduit through which humanity comes to the God the Father.
text: The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus as the incarnation of God, united in essence (consubstantial) but distinct in person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (the first and third persons of the Trinity).
text: The term is used by Saint Augustine in his On the Trinity, for example in discussion of the Son's obedience to God the Father: deo patri deus filius obediens.
text: For hold this fast as a firm and settled truth, if you would continue Catholics, that God the Father begot God the Son without time, and made Him of a Virgin in time.
text: Who would not be astonished', says he (A Plea for the Christians 10), 'to hear us called atheists, us who confess God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Ghost, and hold them one in power and distinct in order.'
text: Most Christian groups conceive of God as Triune, believing that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are distinct persons, but one being that is wholly God.
text: In contrast to most other Christian denominations, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) teaches that God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit are physically distinct while being one in purpose.
text: The LDS Church also teaches that God the Father is married to a divine woman, referred to as "Heavenly Mother.
text: Early Christian views of God were expressed in the Pauline epistles and the early creeds, which proclaimed one God and the divinity of Jesus, almost in the same breath as in 1 Corinthians (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."
text: "The One God exists in Three Persons and One Substance, as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
text: 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.
text: This is reflected in the first petition in the Lord's Prayer addressed to God the Father: "Hallowed be thy Name".
text: It was common in Late Antique art in both East and West, and remained the main way of symbolizing the actions or approval of God the Father in the West until about the end of the Romanesque period.
text: However, the increase in religious imagery did not include depictions of God the Father.
text: God the Father with
text: However, this did not immediately translate into large scale depictions of God the Father.
text: Even supporters of the use of icons in the 8th century, such as Saint John of Damascus, drew a distinction between images of God the Father and those of Christ.
text: The implication here is that insofar as God the Father or the Spirit did not become man, visible and tangible, images and portrait icons can not be depicted.
text: A list of permitted icons was enumerated at this Council, but symbols of God the Father were not among them.
text: However, the general acceptance of icons and holy images began to create an atmosphere in which God the Father could be symbolized.
text: Prior to the 10th century no attempt was made to use a human to symbolize God the Father in Western art.
text: It appears that when early artists designed to represent God the Father, fear and awe restrained them from a usage of the whole human figure.
text: By the 12th century depictions of God the Father had started to appear in French illuminated manuscripts, which as a less public form could often be more adventurous in their iconography, and in stained glass church windows in England.
text: In the 14th century the Naples Bible carried a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush.
text: The Rohan Book of Hours of about 1430 also included depictions of God the Father in half-length human form, which were now becoming standard, and the Hand of God becoming rarer.
text: In the Annunciation by Benvenuto di Giovanni in 1470, God the Father is portrayed in the red robe and a hat that resembles that of a Cardinal.
text: The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father using an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal crown, specially in Northern Renaissance painting.
text: In a Trinitarian Pietà, God the Father is often symbolized using a man wearing a papal dress and a papal crown, supporting the dead Christ in his arms.
text: Representations of God the Father and the Trinity were attacked both by Protestants and within Catholicism, by the Jansenist and Baianist movements as well as more orthodox theologians.
text: Artistic depictions of God the Father were uncontroversial in Catholic art thereafter, but less common depictions of the Trinity were condemned.
text: God the Father is symbolized in several Genesis scenes in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, most famously
text: The Church of the Gesù in Rome includes a number of 16th century depictions of God the Father.
text: In some of these paintings the Trinity is still alluded to in terms of three angels, but Giovanni Battista Fiammeri also depicted God the Father as a man riding on a cloud, above the scenes.
text: In both the Last Judgment and the Coronation of the Virgin paintings by Rubens he depicted God the Father using the image that by then had become widely accepted, a bearded patriarchal figure above the fray.
text: In the 17th century, the two Spanish artists Velázquez (whose father-in-law Francisco Pacheco was in charge of the approval of new images for the Inquisition) and Murillo both depicted God the Father using a patriarchal figure with a white beard in a purple robe.
text: While representations of God the Father were growing in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Low Countries, there was resistance elsewhere in Europe, even during the 17th century.
text: Later in the 17th century Sir Thomas Browne wrote that he considered the representation of God the Father using an old man "a dangerous act" that might lead to Egyptian symbolism.
text: In 1667 the 43rd chapter of the Great Moscow Council specifically included a ban on a number of symbolic depictions of God the Father and the Holy Spirit, which then also resulted in a whole range of other icons being placed on the forbidden list, mostly affecting Western-style depictions which had been gaining ground in Orthodox icons.
text: The Council also declared that the person of the Trinity who was the "Ancient of Days" was Christ, as Logos, not God the Father.
text: God the Father on a throne, Westphalia , Germany, late 15th century
text: To Trinitarian Christians (which include Catholic Christians, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and most Protestant denominations), God the Father is not at all a separate god from the Son (of whom Jesus is the incarnation) and the Holy Spirit, the other Hypostases of the Christian Godhead.
text: The emergence of Trinitarian theology of God the Father in early Christianity was based on two key ideas: first the shared identity of the Yahweh of the Old Testament and the God of Jesus in the New Testament, and then the self-distinction and yet the unity between Jesus and his Father.
text: In Trinitarian theology, God the Father is the "arche" or "principium" (beginning), the "source" or "origin" of both the Son and the Holy Spirit, and is considered the eternal source of the Godhead.
text: The Son is eternally born from God the Father, and the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father, and, in the Western tradition, also from the Son.
text: Thus, the Divine Unity consists of God the Father, with his Son and his Spirit distinct from God the Father and yet perfectly united together in him.
text: Thus, the Divine Unity consists of God the Father, with his Son and his Spirit distinct from God the Father and yet perfectly united together in him.
text: Trinitarians believe that God the Father is not pantheistic, in that he is not viewed as identical to the universe, but exists outside of creation, as its Creator.
text: In mainstream Christianity, the Holy Spirit is one of the three divine persons of the Holy Trinity who make up the single substance of God; that is, the Spirit is considered to act in concert with and share an essential nature with God the Father and God the Son (Jesus).
text: However, differences exist in that in Roman Catholic theology and teaching, God the Father is the eternal source of the Son (begot the Son by an eternal generation) and of the Holy Spirit (by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son) and the one who breathes the Holy Spirit with and through the Son, but the Eastern Orthodox consider the Spirit to proceed from the Father alone.
text: Most Protestant denominations and other traditions arising since the Protestant Reformation, hold general Trinitarian beliefs and theology regarding God the Father similar to that of Roman Catholicism.
text: These groups differ from one another in their views, variously depicting Jesus as a divine being second only to God the Father, Yahweh of the Old Testament in human form, God (but not eternally God), prophet, or simply a holy man.
text: In Jehovah's Witness theology, only God the Father is the one true and almighty God, even over his Son Jesus Christ.
text: While the Witnesses acknowledge Christ's pre-existence, perfection, and unique "Sonship" with God the Father, and believe that Christ had an essential role in creation and redemption, and is the Messiah, they believe that only the Father is without beginning.
text: Jesus (or God the Son) and God the Father are believed to be two persons or aspects of the same god.
text: Jesus is of the same ousia or substance as God the Father, manifested in three hypostases or persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit).
text: God is One, but He exists as three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16-17).
text: (2) There are many specific passages which teach us that there are three distinct persons who possess deity, God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but the Bible also teaches us with equal emphasis that there is but one true God or one divine essence or substance and being.
text: The early Christians knew themselves to be reconciled to God the Father, and that the reconciliation was secured for them by the atoning work of the Son, and that it was mediated to them as an experience by the Holy Spirit.
text: 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 are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
text: In the creation account, both God the Father and the Holy Spirit are seen in the work of creation.
text: Peter traces salvation to the same triunal source: ‘destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ’ (1 Pet. 1:2).
text: God the Father, in the power of God the Holy Spirit and through the agency of God the Son Jesus Christ, created everything that exists.
text: In the Bible, both members of the God family—God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son—are referred to as “God” (John 1:1-3, 14; John 4:24; John 20:17, 28; Ephesians 3:15; Hebrews 1:1-2).
text: Entrance into the God family is made possible for human beings by their accepting God the Father’s gift of the sacrifice of His Son (Jesus Christ) for the forgiveness of their sins (John 3:16; Galatians 1:4; Hebrews 2:9).
text: What Jesus revealed about God the Father and Himself
text: John 1:1 affirms that Jesus is God and, at the same time, that he was “with God,” thereby indicating that Jesus is a distinct Person from God the Father (see also John 1:18).
text: Thus, Jesus prayed to God the Father without praying to himself.
text: What does the Bible teach about God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit?
text: The free articles below give Bible answers to questions about God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
text: Trinity (from top to bottom God the Father, the Holy Spirit (dove) and the crucified Christ in an illuminated Italian manuscript by Cristoforo Majorana , before 1491.
text: Adoration of the Trinity by Theby Albrecht Dürer (1511): from top to bottom: Holy Spirit (dove), God the Father and the crucified Christ
text: However, in Eastern Orthodoxy the Ancient of Days is usually understood to be God the Son, not God the Father (see below)
text: Theologians sometimes use that term when they want to refer to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit as three divine Persons in one God.
text: In some sense we can never understand that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have forever communicated and loved each other.
text: We all know that God the Father is to be worshiped.
text: The effect of personal evil far transcends the repercussions humans cause to one another in the world, but affects one's relationship with God the Father, and that aspect of the self cannot be addressed through one's own self-improvement efforts, but requires God to intervene in order to set one right.
text: Along with God the Father and God the Son (Jesus Christ), God the Spirit is the third member of the Godhead or the Trinity Those who challenge the idea that the Holy Spirit is God suggest that the Holy Spirit may simply be an impersonal force of some kind, a source of power controlled by God but not fully a person Himself.
text: Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
text: Since we have an issue of authority in discussion related to gender, it makes sense to say that we would have God the Father and not God the mother since the male gender, biblically, represents authority.
text: The LDS Church also teaches that God the Father is married to a divine woman, referred to as "Heavenly Mother".
text: Jesus Christ is the Lord (Owner, Ruler or Master) of man and God the Father is Lord of the Christ
text: Through the power of His Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), God the Father impregnated Mary, and His Seed, Jesus, was called Immanuel, "God with us" (Matthew 1:23).
text: That is, they have a false understanding of God the Father, of God the Son, of the Holy Spirit, and the work of Christ on the Cross.
text: Jesus, the devil, and all of us are literal spirit children born in a pre-existence, the literal offspring of God the Father and his goddess wife (Mormon Doctrine p. 516; Journal of Discourse, Vol. 4, p. 218).
text: Jesus, the devil, and all of us are literal spirit children born in a pre-existence, the literal offspring of God the Father and his goddess wife (Mormon Doctrine p. 516; Journal of Discourse, Vol. 4, p. 218).
text: “ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [the Son] , and the love of God [the Father] , and the communion of the Holy Spirit [the Holy Spirit] be with you all.
text: Paul wrote, “ Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power ” ( 1 Corinthians 15:24 ).
text: Deuteronomy 33:27 explains to us that God the Father is eternal.
text: The Bible is quite clear—there is one true God, and He exists in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
text: God the Father, in the power of God the Holy Spirit, through the agency of God the Son
text: The fact that God is spirit means that God the Father does not have a human body.
text: God the Son came to earth in human form (John 1:1), but God the Father did not.
text: To say that God is spirit is to say that God the Father is invisible.
text: God the Father is not limited to the dimensional restrictions of created things but can exist in all places at one time.
text: They reason that if Jesus were truly God, then He would be completely equal to God the Father in all areas and would not, therefore, be subordinate to the Father in any way; but this objection is not logical.
text: 1:2, "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure.
text: Like God the Father, Jesus was revealed to humanity in a male form.
text: What if God the Father has not sent his children on a cosmic Easter egg hunt to discover his will while he sits back in heaven saying, “You’re getting colder . . .
text: The scriptures do not give us a personal name that belongs distinctly to God the Father.
text: While God the Father is the One called “Lord of lords” in Deuteronomy 10:17 and in Psalms, the New Testament writers use the same title to refer to God the Son, Jesus Christ.
text: God the Father is incorporeal (John 4:24).
text: That is, they have a false understanding of God the Father, of God the Son, of the Holy Spirit, and the work of Christ on the Cross.
text: Jesus, the devil, and all of us are literal spirit children born in a pre-existence, the literal offspring of God the Father and his goddess wife (Mormon Doctrine p. 516; Journal of Discourse, Vol. 4, p. 218).
text: : Jesus, the devil, and all of us are literal spirit children born in a pre-existence, the literal offspring of God the Father and his goddess wife (Mormon Doctrine p. 516; Journal of Discourse, Vol. 4, p. 218).
text: It is interesting to note that verses 6, 12, 13, and 18 of the same chapter refer unambiguously to God the Father and use an anarthrous noun, i.e., a noun without the article.(2)
text: The same Greek word was used in the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, as the translated word for the Hebrew words Yahweh and Adonai, two special names given to God the Father.
text: Belief in Jesus' essential equality with God the Father was communicated by the Apostles to the church fathers to whom they handed the task of leading the church.
text: Clement implies Jesus' equality with God the Father when he says "Have we not one God, and one Christ and one Spirit of grace poured upon us.
text: one God the Father, and one Christ Jesus our Lord, who . .
text: The Nicene Creed stated, "We believe in God the Father All-sovereign, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all the ages, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not created, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things came into being."(3)
text: The belief in Jesus Christ being of the same essence as God the Father began with Jesus himself, was taught to His Apostles, who in turn handed down this belief to the early church Fathers and apologists.
text: He is the Father who truly knows best, as Paul explains in Romans 11:33:
text: God the Father is a Person with a mind (Isaiah 55:8–9), emotions (Psalm 78:40), and a will (1 Peter 2:15).
text: lords’—yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through Him” (1 Corinthians 8:4-6 , HCSB).
text: So does the fact that “for us there is one God, the Father,” mean that Jesus cannot also be God?
text: that “there is one God, the Father”?
text: As elsewhere, Paul shows here that while “all things”—the entire created realm, both physical and spiritual—is ultimately from God the Father, it was all actually made through Jesus Christ.
text: So if both Father and Son are God and both are Lord, why does Paul divide Them out as “one God, the Father” and “one Lord, Jesus Christ”?
text: God the Father, who is supreme, working through the Son, who perfectly carries out His will, these two being one in unity.
text: Paul assumes his readers already knew Jesus to be equal with God, the Father.
text: Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
text: , God exists as one Triune God comprising God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit
text: The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus as God the Son, identical in essence but distinct in person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (the first and third Persons of the Trinity).
text: In Christianity, the title "Son of God" refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father.
text: (2) There are many specific passages which teach us there are three distinct Persons who possess deity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but the Bible also teaches us with equal emphasis that there is but one true God or one Divine Essence or Substance and Being.
text: The early Christians knew themselves to be reconciled to God the Father, and that the reconciliation was secured for them by the atoning work of the Son, and that it was mediated to them as an experience by the Holy Spirit.
text: 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 are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
text: In the creation account, both God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are seen in the work of creation.
text: Peter traces salvation to the same triunal source: ‘destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ’ (1 Pet. 1:2).
text: Since, for most this Person is God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are stripped of their genuine deity.
text: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure.
text: May the Lord bless you in your study of His precious Word and in your walk with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
text: There are numerous passages that teach that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are distinct persons and yet each hold the attributes of deity.
text: Theology Proper (also called Paterology, meaning the study of the Father) is the area of Christian Systematic Theology that investigates what the Bibles teaches regarding God the Father, the first Person of the Triune Godhead.
text: Theology Proper is the area of theology that provides much of this information, specifically as it relates to God the Father.
text: Right now, Christ is at the right hand of God the Father and reigning over all things until all his enemies are made his footstool (1 Corinthians 15:24–28; Psalm 110:1).
text: So, just as the name of God in the Old Testament spoke of the holy character of God the Father, so the name of Jesus in the New Testament speaks of the holy character of God the Son.3
text: God Most High (who is known to us now as God the Father) and the Word (the member of the God family who became the flesh-and-blood human being Jesus Christ
text: If we inherit life in God’s family, we will become like God the Father and Jesus Christ.
text: God is love” not only describes the nature of God the Father; “God is love” also describes the nature of God the Son (Jesus Christ).
text: The doctrine of the Trinity — that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each equally and eternally the one true God
text: God , the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him.
text: It is not until far later that it is revealed that the Being who became Jesus was used by God the Father to create everything (Colossians 1:16 - 19).
text: Jesus says, for example, that He is “the first and the last” ( ), which God the Father says in .
text: He has made it clear that He and God the Father are one ( ), and says in , “I am the way and the truth and the life.
text: Calling Jesus God’s Son is an expression of His role in relation to God the Father.
text: In John 14:31 Jesus expresses his love for God the Father.
text: This verse includes the only direct statement by Jesus in the New Testament about Jesus' love for God the Father.
text: "He [God the Father] made Him who knew no sin (i.e. Jesus, God the Son) to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
text: The one true God which Jesus and the apostles revealed is God the Father.
text: NOT 'God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit'.
text: And if you worship God the Father, then you will also worship and follow His Son, Jesus Christ - Revelation 14:12.
text: Not the false name of 'God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit'.
text: Important Note : We teach that we are saved only by the grace of God the Father, through faith in the righteousness of Christ Jesus His Son.
text: Through his Word the whole creation learns that there is one God the Father, who holds all things together and gives them there being.
text: Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
text: Saying this we already know what is God the father the almighty, creator of heaven and earth, we know it not by the effect of a learning or of some knowledge, we don’t know it by the thought, on the background of the truth of the world; we know it
text: The Trinity is an office held by three separate gods: a god called the father, a god called the son, and a god called the holy spirit.
text: The Trinity is an office held by three separate gods: a god called the father, a god called the son, and a god called the holy spirit.
text: : The Trinity is an office held by three separate gods: a god called the father, a god called the son, and a god called the holy spirit.
text: The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Book 239, states that God is called "Father", while his love for man may also be depicted as motherhood.
text: God almighty who cares and nourishes,” Gen. 17:1; Father, God is called Father over and over in the New Testament.
text: God is a Father who has a purpose—a plan—for every human being who has ever lived.