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Dec 28, 2020 · God’s fatherhood is holy, set apart, and singular. It is the fatherhood of the one God. Its meaning, therefore, isn’t defined by the measure of creaturely forms of fatherhood or by some generic sense of fatherhood that might apply to both God and creatures. The meaning of God’s fatherhood is determined by God’s fatherhood alone.
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
How does the Bible portray God as a Father? Learn about the rare and unique use of this metaphor in the Old Testament and the New Testament, especially by Jesus and Paul. Explore the implications of God's fatherhood for our identity, relationship, and prayer.
Aug 29, 2018 · The Fatherhood of God. R.C. Sproul. 2 Min Read. “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12–13)
The Fatherhood of God. "Our Father which art in heaven."—Matthew 6:9. Think there is room for very great doubt, whether our Saviour intended the prayer, of which our text forms a part, to be used in the manner in which it is commonly employed among professing Christians.
The Father is revealed to us as the principle of the Godhead, the one who plans the work of salvation and who sends the Son in order to carry it out. The Son pleads for us in the presence of the Father and the Father forgives us because of the Son’s intercession on our behalf.
Christ as the Son of God mediates the Fatherhood of God in the Trinity and shows forth the divine order of the Trinity with God the Father as the Head. The mediation of the Fatherhood of God is so perfect in Christ that He claims that to have seen Him is to have seen the Father (see Jn 14:8-11).
