Assertion: monotheism's god | /r/HasProperty | the father
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text: One purpose of the council was to resolve disagreements in Alexandria over the nature of Jesus in relationship to the Father; in particular, whether Jesus was of the same substance as God the Father or merely of similar substance.
text: They consider God to be a triune entity, called the Trinity, comprising three "persons", God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
text: Some Christian faiths, such as Mormonism, argue that the Godhead is in fact three separate individuals which include God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.
text: On the other hand, the Christian God is very anthropomorphic, with God the Father and God the Son as part of three persons (including the Holy Spirit) in one God.
text: The Christian Bible, including the New Testament, has no trinitarian statements or speculations concerning the doctrine of the Trinity—only triadic liturgical formulas invoking God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
text: It is true that Christianity also has had its Unitarians, such as the 16th-century Italian theologian Faustus Socinus, but this religion in its three classic forms of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism acknowledges one God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
text: Many manifestations of the divine were accepted in the same gradients of power, but only the god of Israel was to be worshipped: "Even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many lords—yet for us there is one god, the Father" (1 Corinthians 8:5).
text: We believe in one god, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.
text: The love of God the Father thus includes the love of His incarnate Son.
text: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, believed in "the plurality of Gods", saying "I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods".
text: Mormonism also affirms the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as exaltation, the idea that people can become like god in the afterlife, and the prevailing view among Mormons is that God the Father was once a man who lived on a planet with his own higher God, and who became perfect after following this higher God.
text: In the sense that Mormons worship only God the Father, they consider themselves monotheists.
text: The assertion is often found that because Mormons beleive God is a perfected Man and Men may become like God, Mormons believe in a pantheon of which God the Father is merely paramount.
text: Mormons have no dealings, literature, stories, fables, or sermons relating to any God other than God the Father.
text: Christians, for example, would further affirm that there are three aspects to God (the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit).
text: Paul distinguishes between gods that have no authority or have a lesser authority, "as there be gods many, and lords many", and the one God who has universal authority, "one God, the Father, of whom are all things" and "one Lord, Jesus Christ, of whom are all things".
text: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) teaches that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three distinct beings belonging to one Godhead: "All three are united in their thoughts, actions, and purpose, with each having a fullness of knowledge, truth, and power.
text: Latter-day Saints further believe that prayer should be directed to only God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ.
text: Christians insist that their Christology is monotheistic; Christ is one substance (homoousios ) with God the Father.
text: For a start some versions appear to have three gods - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
text: The purpose of the council was to resolve disagreements in the Church of Alexandria over the nature of Jesus in relationship to the Father; in particular, whether Jesus was of the same substance as God the Father or merely of similar substance.
text: They consider God to be a triune entity, called the Trinity, comprised of the three "Persons" God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the three of this unity are described as being "of the same substance" (ὁμοούσιος).
text: 1. “Cima da Conegliano, God the Father” by Attributed to Cima da Conegliano –
text: Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, believed in "the plurality of Gods", saying "I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods".
text: Mormonism also affirms the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as exaltation, the idea that people can become like god in the afterlife, and the prevailing view among Mormons is that God the Father was once a man who lived on a planet with his own higher God, and who became perfect after following this higher God.
text: In the sense that Mormons worship only God the Father, they consider themselves monotheists.
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: First Corinthians 8:6: "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: 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 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: At the center of Christianity and Judaism, monotheism is exercised in the worship of God (the Father), who is all-powerful, has created the entire universe and is still involved with His creation today.
text: Central Italian School 16th century Head of God the Father
text: Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension to the right hand of God the Father.
text: When they are finally distinguished in the New Testament, we find that God the Father is typically described as the Creator, with Christ as His intermediary.
text: 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 (1 Corinthians 8:6).
text: One purpose of the council was to resolve disagreements in Alexandria over the nature of Jesus in relationship to the Father; in particular, whether Jesus was of the same substance as God the Father or merely of similar substance.
text: They consider God to be a triune entity, called the Trinity, comprising three “persons”, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
text: Some Christian faiths, such as Mormonism, argue that the Godhead is in fact three separate individuals which include God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.
text: Diagram of the Relationship between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
text: For Christians, it is the place where the messiah, Jesus, was crucified, died, buried, and ascended to heaven to be 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: many lords— 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: For example, he said that: “I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.
text: The Father and the Son,” which worked to explain how Jesus Christ takes on the role of our Eternal Father (creator of the earth, adoptive father to those who follow the gospel, and stand-in for God the Father using divine investiture on occasion) and differentiates it somewhat from the way in which God the Father is our Father (the father of our spirits).
text: The Father and the Son,” which worked to explain how Jesus Christ takes on the role of our Eternal Father (creator of the earth, adoptive father to those who follow the gospel, and stand-in for God the Father using divine investiture on occasion) and differentiates it somewhat from the way in which God the Father is our Father (the father of our spirits).
text: many lords— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist.
text: This line of thinking can logically be applied to the leading figure of the Godhead, God the Father.
text: Paul’s text does state, after all, that “there is one God, the Father.
text: It is to God the Father that we pray and look to as the father of our spirits and the divine architect of the Plan of Salvation.
text: While we, as Latter-day Saints, still regard Jesus as a subordinate god to God the Father, it does not negate the fact that we regard Jesus as our God in some significant ways.
text: The result of regarding both God the Father and Jesus the Christ as our Gods (along with the Holy Spirit and Heavenly Mother) and the desire to reconcile our monotheistic roots with our polytheism (or henotheism) has led, at times, to abstracting the idea of God to a more nebulous or council-based idea.
text: Elder Orson Pratt, for example, argued in favor of regarding the power or attributes embodied by God the Father as the true God we worship rather than any individual who have achieved godhood.
text: The Book of Mormon is replete with statements that God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy Spirit are “one Eternal God.
text: Perhaps we more thoroughly embrace Elder McConkie’s henotheistic view about God the Father being the only individual we truly worship as our God and rethink how we view Jesus a bit.
text: For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'— 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."Scripture is explicitly clear that there is only one God.
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” (1 Cor. 8:6).
text: The love of God the Father thus includes the love of His incarnate Son.
text: I agree with Wright as well that Jesus was never seen as a second deity alongside of God the Father, or a human or an angel promoted to divine glory by means of the resurrection.
text: He was on the Creator side of the ledger when the universe was made says John 1, and he made the universe with God the Father.
text: God the Father revealed by God's incarnated Son, Jesus Christ, because, in and with God the deifying Holy Spirit.
text: Brahma in his relation to Brahman seems a little parallel to the heresy of Arianism, which held Christ to be the first and highest creature of God the Father
text: One view, called trinitarianism, asserts that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost - but yet one God.
text: Therefore, god also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of god the father.
text: There is one God the father,
text: “There is one God the father, from whom are all things
text: We may even guess that Paul, accustomed since childhood to pray the Shema at regular hours, had himself now been praying it and teaching others to pray it in this new fashion—perhaps for several years, invoking the kingdom of Jesus the Messiah as the present instantiation of the kingdom of God the father, as in 1 Corinthians 15:20–28.