Who is the heavenly Father?

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Who is God the Father? What is his relationship to the other persons of the Trinity and what is his relationship to us?
 
atassina said:
Who is God the Father? What is his relationship to the other persons of the Trinity and what is his relationship to us?
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The best answer, in my mind, is in the Nicene Creed:
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things, visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ …Begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father …
And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, proceeding from the Father and the Son. …
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God the Father made everything, even things our senses cannot detect.
He did not, however, make God the Son or God the Holy Ghost.
Jesus Christ was begotten, NOT MADE.
The Holy Ghost PROCEEDS from the Father and the Son.
(Jesus is the Father’s begotten Son. See the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John.)
 
just ponder this as an aide to understanding “he who does not have trhe son does not have the Father - he who has the son has both the Father and the son” - jimc
 
The_Reginator said:
The best answer, in my mind, is in the Nicene Creed:

God the Father made everything, even things our senses cannot detect.
He did not, however, make God the Son or God the Holy Ghost.
Jesus Christ was begotten, NOT MADE.
The Holy Ghost PROCEEDS from the Father and the Son.
(Jesus is the Father’s begotten Son. See the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John.)
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Hi Reginator,
The red ink reminded me of a painting I did a few years back. Blue signifies the Father, Red signifies the Son and Green signifies the Holy Spirit.
Blue refers to the traditional depiction of God the Father clad in a blue robe.
Red is the colour of blood, the Blood shed by the Son in sacrifice.
Green is the colour of rebirth and renewal which the Holy Spirit confers.
God Bless,
Colmcille1.🙂
 
colmcille1 said:
Hi Reginator,
The red ink reminded me of a painting I did a few years back. Blue signifies the Father, Red signifies the Son and Green signifies the Holy Spirit.
Blue refers to the traditional depiction of God the Father clad in a blue robe.
Red is the colour of blood, the Blood shed by the Son in sacrifice.
Green is the colour of rebirth and renewal which the Holy Spirit confers.
God Bless,
Colmcille1.🙂
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Thanks for that info!!!
I’ve never heard that. (But, hey, I’m a mere convert.;))
 
atassina said:
Who is God the Father? What is his relationship to the other persons of the Trinity and what is his relationship to us?
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He’s our Father. To know Him is to know* love* on an unfathomable scale-one only His grace can reveal. To know Him is, almost strangely, to know family, having been created by Him and in His image-we’re part of Him, prodigals who need to find out just how much we need our Father in order to live and have life abundantly.
 
diggerdomer said:
No, of course not. There is no end to say what humans can say God is.
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We can only know God as Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ -“no one can come to know the Father except by me” - this is one of the reasons,besides the prime reason of course for the incarnation - the Jews knew very well znd accepted and so do we that “no man can see God the Father and live” - so who did they see except Christ.Show us the Father said Phillip and Jesus answered “he who has seen me,has seen the Father for I and my Father are one and the same”,that is exactly the same only different - jimc
 
atassina said:
Is this all there is to say about who the Father is?
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Human language hardly adequate, but The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us wisdom to ponder:

scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p1.htm

scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm

In part it reads:
239 By calling God “Father”, the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God’s parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood,62 which emphasizes God’s immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard:63 no one is father as God is Father.
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240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father in relation to his only Son, who is eternally Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."64
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atassina said:
Is this all there is to say about who the Father is?
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God is infinite Love and has infinite Love for you and for me.

To say anything else, such as “God is Creator”, simply says what God DOES, not what God IS. Often times when we praise God for what He has done. In addition, we should always praise God for Who He Is.
 
twinc said:
We can only know God as Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ -“no one can come to know the Father except by me” - this is one of the reasons,besides the prime reason of course for the incarnation - the Jews knew very well znd accepted and so do we that “no man can see God the Father and live” - so who did they see except Christ.Show us the Father said Phillip and Jesus answered “he who has seen me,has seen the Father for I and my Father are one and the same”,that is exactly the same only different - jimc
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Not exactly. We can know God through for example the Old Testament. And, as the Catholic Church teaches (and St. Paul refers to in Romans) God speaks to everyone in their hearts (e.g. the natural law). So, even those who don’t know Christ explicitly can still know God.
 
:)The Father is the Supreme being in the Godhead,All knowing and powerful, omnipotent,omniscient,omnipresent,with infinate power and charity.
He is Our Father,and He created all things and without him nothing was created.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

– Galatians 4:4-7
 
atassina said:
Who is God the Father? What is his relationship to the other persons of the Trinity and what is his relationship to us?
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“For even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, nevertheless for US there is ONE God, the FATHER, out of Whom ALL IS, and we for Him, and ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST, through Whom all is, and we through Him” (I Cor. 8:5-6).
 
Instead of a strict theological description, can you give me a relational-pastoral description of who the Father is?
 
atassina said:
Instead of a strict theological description, can you give me a relational-pastoral description of who the Father is?
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:)All life and all in all! Breath ,Height, Depth, Intelligent energy and i have not seen him but i hear he is a Spirit, not of flesh.He is thought,motion,light,and the only path that leads to eternity and home.

oK I guess you could say he is you and me he is all ceration.😉
 
Sister_Angel said:
:)All life and all in all! Breath ,Height, Depth, Intelligent energy and i have not seen him but i hear he is a Spirit, not of flesh.He is thought,motion,light,and the only path that leads to eternity and home.

oK I guess you could say he is you and me he is all ceration.😉
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🙂 Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
 
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