The
apostles testify that Jesus Christ is Lord. But Jesus Christ understands
himself as the one sent by God the Father to represent and manifest his
lordship. Contrary to all others who claim control or to be in control, God the
Father alone is truly Lord because he alone is free over the power of death.
God the Father exists as Creator because he alone initiates our existence, he
alone sustains us in life at every moment, and he alone decides at what moment
to carry us through death to eternal life.
We
may know of God, of God as Creator and, as such, of God as our Father because
Jesus Christ revealed him to us. And Jesus Christ could reveal God as Creator
and Father in relation to us because that is who God is beforehand in relation
to himself. We know God, in his first way of being God, as Father because it is
as Father that God is the source of God the Son and, with the Son, of God the
Holy Spirit. God could be Creator of heaven and earth because he was first the
origin of the Son and the Spirit.
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by Steven Farsaci.
All rights reserved. Fair use encouraged.
All rights reserved. Fair use encouraged.
