God as Father (9)
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
For everything that Christ taught, everything that makes the New Testament new, and better than the Old, everything that is distinctively Christian as opposed to merely Jewish, is summed up in the knowledge of the Fatherhood of God. 'Father' is the Christian name for God. Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption.Knowing God (??)
The Father is unbegotten, uncreated, and incomprehensible. The Son is begotten, but he is also uncreated and incomprehensible. The Holy Spirit is not begotten or created. He is not the Son's twin brother, nor his uncle, nor his grandfather nor his grandsonAncoratus 7
o how great a task is it, for a poor soul that becomes sensible of sin, and the wrath of God, to say in Faith, but this one word, Father! I tell you, however hypocrites think, yet the Christian, that is so indeed, finds all the difficulty in this very thing, it cannot say, God is its Father.
We do not speak of two gods, we do not think of the unity of the Son with the Father in terms of the similarity of their teaching, but in terms of being (ousia) and reality. So we speak...of one God who exists as one form of divinity, like the relationship of light to its ray.De synodis, 52.1
I ought to begin with the most important point, which is that God the Creator made heaven and earth and everything in them... and demonstrate that there is nothing above him or behind him, as well as that he made everything of his own free will, uninfluenced by anyone else. He is the only God, the only Lord, the only Creator, the only Father, the only one who contains all things and who commanded everything else to come into existence. How can there be any other fullness, principle, power, or god above him, since it is necessary for God, who is the fullness of all these things, to contain them in his immensity without being himself contained by anyone?Adversus omnes haereses 2.1.1-2
To the Father of all, who is unbegotten, there is no name given. For anyone who is called by a name is dependent on the person who gives him that name. These words-Father, God, Creator, Lord, and Master-are not names, but titles derived from his good deeds and functions.Apologia II 6
It is no exaggeration to say that Christian theology began when Jesus called God his Father and taught his disciples to do the same. That was something previously unknown in Israel, and the Jews who heard Jesus say this reacted against him because of it.God Has Spoken (99)
[the Father] would have the most excellent person, one next in order to himself, and equal to him in all the glorious perfections of his nature, die on a disgraceful cross, and be exposed to the flames of Divine wrath, rather than sin should live, and his holiness remain for ever disparaged by the violations of his law - God seems to lay aside the bowels of a father, and put on the garb of an irreconcilable enemy
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