Quotes About God

of each writing (e.g., Rom 1:7; 8:3; Titus 1:1, 4; 3:4-7) makes it clear that each author thinks of "God" and Jesus as both uniquely linked and also distinguishable.

This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he [Jesus] has poured out this that you both see and hear" (Acts 2:32-33 NRSV, emphasis mine).

the Jesus of this passage refers to his (pre-incarnate) sharing in divine glory (17:5, 24) and speaks of himself and the "Father" as co-inhering such that they are "one" (17:21). But the prayer form of John 17 makes it clear that Jesus and "God" are also distinguishable and that Jesus is subordinate and subservient to the purposes of "God." One of the repeated claims in the passage is that Jesus has been sent forth by "God" (17:8, 18, 21, 23, 25).

17:3 defines eternal life concisely as knowing two figures: "the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Romans 8:9 we have an equally strong statement. Indeed, in two consecutive sentences in this verse, Paul directly refers to the divine Spirit as also "the Spirit of Christ." "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his." In

Likewise, the linkage of Wisdom with Torah in Sirach 24 and Baruch 3–4 simply makes the claim that Torah is not an arbitrary or parochial set of rules but instead reflects this one God's greater purposes in creation. That

propose that the emphasis on God's acts as the basis of knowledge of God is why in the NT "God" is identified distinctively and so emphatically with reference to Jesus, for the NT

This provides further warrant for the observation that the unhesitating identification of "God" as the OT deity in the NT is noteworthy.

presents Jesus as God's greatest act of redemption and revelation.

To be sure, the term is applied to God in the OT, occasionally in relationship to Israel generally (Hos 11:1), and particularly with reference to the Davidic king (e.g., Ps 2:7; 89:26-27; 2 Sam 7:14). In some Jewish texts, God is also specifically "Father" to the righteous (e.g., Wis 2:16).

The claims that the OT God had now sent forth Jesus as the self-revelation that surpassed all previous ones (including specifically the Torah), that this God thereby had widened the circle of the elect to include all nations, and that a right relationship with this God and a full participation in the elect now rested upon how one responded to Jesus, these all amounted to significant differences with the Jewish religious tradition. In

Early Christians (initially Jewish believers and then increasingly Gentile converts) claimed that the OT God was now to be identified with reference to Jesus and approached through him. Either implicitly or explicitly, this meant the relativization of all previous portrayals of and claims about this God, generating unavoidable (and understandable) tensions between the young Christian movement and the larger Jewish religious tradition.

the NT writings reflect the view that "God" is known solely through this deity's acts and that a right understanding of who "God" is can only be based on these phenomena.

it is in sayings of Jesus that "God" is referred to as "the Father" (e.g., 4:21-23).

The God of the NT is described almost entirely in terms of God's acts of creation, calling, sending forth prophets,

that "God" can be known and described only in direct reference to this God's acts.

Similarly, Paul refers to "God's" Spirit as conveying divine sonship to believers (Gal 4:4-6; Rom 8:14-17), a status that is theirs through Jesus' unique sonship. Indeed,

Only God is perfect. For the rest of us, there are apologies.

Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.

Y dónde estaba Dios entonces?>>, pregunto. -Donde está ahora -responde Metatrón-. Donde ha estado siempre. <<¿En el cielo?>> Sus labios resecos se curvan en una sonrisa. -En todas partes. En la vida misma. En el mundo. En todas partes. Dios lo es todo. Dios es su propia creación.

Se puede saber por qué dura tanto vuestra estúpida guerra? Angelo hace una mueca y responde enigmáticamente: -Pregúntale a Dios.

Ya sabes... «una vida humana no es más que el parpadeo de un dios». Recuerdo, de pronto, mi conversación con Astaroth: «Porque el tiempo que ha pasado contigo es solo un parpadeo comparado con su larga, larguísima vida». Y me duele.

What's the difference between God and a federal judge?" "I don't know." "God doesn't think he's a federal judge." Tara

Phil was a deeply religious man, carrying a faith instilled in him by his parents. "I had told Al several times before to always do his best as he knew how to do it," Phil's father once wrote, "and when things get beyond his skill and ability to ask the Lord to step in and help out." Phil never spoke of his faith, but as he sang hymns over the ocean, conjuring up a protective God, perhaps rescue felt closer, despair more distant.