John the Baptist. After this took place, two additional events happened. First, God opened heaven and Jesus saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. Then, a voice from heaven was heard: “This is my Son, Whom I love; with him I am well pleased...
He Who is the sovereign Lord of all is come. The Kingdom is God’s, the omnipotent Protector, the Self-Subsisting. Worship none but God, and, with radiant hearts, lift up your faces unto your Lord, the Lord of all names. This is a Revelation to which whatever ye possess can never ...
O holy apostle Philip/ entreat the merciful God// that He grant to our souls remission of transgressions. Kontakion of the Apostle, Tone IV "Having been lifted up" The most wondrous fisher of nations,/ conversor with the disciples of Christ,/ Philip, forechosen from among the apostles,/ do...
This includes doctrines such as God’s character (i.e., He is righteous, merciful, loving, gracious, etc.), claiming His promises (i.e., He provides, never leaves, etc.), and the walk of faith that obeys God’s directives as they relate to life (i.e., marriage, education, finance...
God is mentioned three times in the Shema, the Old Covenant profession of faith [Deuteronomy 6:4] and three times in the priestly blessing [Numbers 6:24-26]. The three attributes of God mentioned in Exodus 33:18-19 are hen, rachum, and hesed (gracious, compassionate /merciful, and lovin...
Clearly, each person, according to his own taste. To Tolstoy even the Gospel Beatitudes—where the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart are blessed—seemed unnecessary, since they “are out of place and were inserted fortuitously.”[86]People have vastly different tastes, and if it is dete...
he reasoned, meant that the great “merciful” Creator God had to continue to supply the nutrients of life so the person can suffer more and more….desiring the sleep of death, but not finding it. So man had changed the penalty of sin as being death to being eternal life….in flames!
True, his God was bothmerciful and just,2but in matters of Christian morality he emphasized the secondterm in that equation. Tertullian routinely reminded his audience of the witheringpower of God’s omnipresent censorial gaze.3InDe pudicitia, he cites Isaiah and thePsalms to remind his ...
Though God does get angry and righteously judges sin, many Scriptures tell us He “is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth” (Ex 34:6), that He is a “God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth” (Psa...
Clement of Rome: the Creator, long-suffering, merciful, the sustainer, the benefactor, ordaining love of men, counselling purity, immortal and making immortal, incomparable, dwelling in the souls of the good, that cannot be contained and yet is contained, who has fixed the great world as a ...