I believe in God the Father
Taken from The Living God
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A personal God: love and faithfulness 2
I believe in God the Father
As we saw in the last chapter, the creeds help us put into words our trust in ‘the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation’ (2 Corinthians 1.3). One reason why the creeds begin by talking about believing in God as ‘Father’ is because this is the way of speaking about God and speaking to God used by Jesus of Nazareth. The Gospels emphasize how Jesus of Nazareth spoke of God as his ‘Father’. Indeed, the Lord’s Prayer – widely regarded as a ‘model prayer’ for Christians – opens with the phrase ‘Our Father’. So in using this language, the creeds are simply following the example of Jesus. Christians believe and trust in the same God who was known, obeyed, and revealed by him...