Assertion: martyr's god | /r/HasProperty | the father
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text: And the first power after God the Father and Lord of all is the Word, who is also the Son; and of Him we will, in what follows, relate how He took flesh and became man.
text: We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
text: And we have thought it right and relevant to mention some other prophetic utterances of David besides these; from which you may learn how the Spirit of prophecy exhorts men to live, and how He foretold the conspiracy which was formed against Christ by Herod the king of the Jews, and the Jews themselves, and Pilate, who was your governor among them, with his soldiers; and how He should be believed on by men of every race; and how God calls Him His Son, and has declared that He will subdue all His enemies under Him; and how the devils, as much as they can, strive to escape the power of God the Father and Lord of all, and the power of Christ Himself; and how God calls all to repentance before the day of judgment comes.
text: And again, by the other prophet Isaiah, that the following utterance was made as if from God the Father and Lord of all:
text: But who, through the power of the Word, according to the will of God the Father and Lord of all, He was born of a virgin as a man, and was named Jesus, and was crucified, and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, an intelligent man will be able to comprehend from what has been already so largely said.
text: Since at our birth we were born without our own knowledge or choice, by our parents coming together, and were brought up in bad habits and wicked training; in order that we may not remain the children of necessity and of ignorance, but may become the children of choice and knowledge, and may obtain in the water the remission of sins formerly committed, there is pronounced over him who chooses to be born again, and has repented of his sins, the name of God the Father and Lord of the universe; he who leads to the layer the person that is to be washed calling him by this name alone.
text: : I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to this Child that thing which by nature he cannot have; that he may be baptized with Water and the Holy Ghost, and received into Christ’s holy Church, and be made a lively member of the same.
text: God the Father?
text: God the Father? has a name, one that is distinct from his Son?s name, is shown in numerous texts.
text: God the Father?
text: Why pray to someone who wouldn't seem to even know who you are, instead of to God the Father Himself and in Christ's name ( "For God so loved the world... and Christ, who you know loved you enough to actually die for you )?
text: When the disciples (who would later become the apostles) asked the Lord Jesus to teach them how to pray, Christ taught them (and all Christians) to pray our prayers to God the Father:
text: Christ taught us to Pray to God the Father...
text: Later Christ clarified his teaching to pray to God the Father by saying that we should do so in His (Christ's own) Name---
text: 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.
text: 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.
text: For Justin, God the Father
text: Since at our birth we were born without our own knowledge or choice, by our parents coming together, and were brought up in bad habits and wicked training; in order that we may not remain the children of necessity and of ignorance, but may become the children of choice and knowledge, and may obtain in the water the remission of sins formerly committed, there is pronounced over him who chooses to be born again, and has repented of his sins, the name of God the Father and Lord of the universe; he who leads to the laver the person that is to be washed calling him by this name alone.
text: The ultimate "Father of the fatherland" would seem to be God the Father, though it is likely that Justin is simply trying a bit too hard to be polite here.
text: He gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God the Father, which must have looked like the brightness of the sun.
text: The One they rejected and killed is alive, and God the Father has made Him both “ruler and deliverer” (Acts 7:35).
text: He foretold that all these things would happen -- our Teacher, I mean, who is the Son and Apostle of God the Father and Master of all, that is, Jesus Christ, from whom we have received the name of Christians.
text: The first Power after God the Father and Master of all, even [his] Son, is the Word -- how he was made flesh and became man we shall describe below.
text: [He also testifies] that he would be believed in by men of every race, and that God calls him his Son and has declared that he will subject his enemies to him, and how the demons try as far as they can to escape the power of God the Father and Master of all and that of his Christ, and how God calls all men to repentance before the day of judgment comes.
text: And again through Isaiah, another prophet, this was said to the same purpose, as from God the Father and Master of all things: "Wash yourselves, be clean, take away wickednesses from your souls, learn to do good, give judgment for the orphan and defend the cause of the widow, and come and let us reason together, says the Lord.
text: Then they are brought by us where there is water, and are reborn by the same manner of rebirth by which we ourselves were reborn; for they are then washed in the water in the name of God the Father and Master of all, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit.
text: So that we should not remain children of necessity and ignorance, but [become sons] of free choice and knowledge, and obtain remission of the sins we have already committed,  there is named at the water, over him who has chosen to be born again and has repented of his sinful acts, the name of God the Father and Master of all.
text: Having overcome the unjust governor with patience and acquired the crown of immortality, he now, with the apostles and all the righteous, glorifies God the Father with joy, and blesses our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of our souls, the Ruler of our bodies, and the Shepherd of the Catholic Church throughout the world.
text: For these new manifestations of virtue will bear witness to one and the same Spirit who still operates, and to God the Father almighty, to his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom is splendour and immeasurable power for all the ages.