Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 118

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118. (ii) The Lord is also called father and the church mother.

It is evident that the Lord is called father from these passages.

A child is born to us, a son is given to us, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. Isa. 9:6. You, Jehovah, are our Father, your name is the Redeemer from of old. Isa. 63:16. Jesus said, He who sees me sees the Father who sent me. John 12:45. If you knew me, you knew also my father; and henceforth you have known and seen him. John 14:7. Philip said, Show us the Father. Jesus said to him, He who has seen me has seen the Father; how then can you say, Show us the Father? John 14:8, 9. Jesus said, the Father and I are one. John 10:30. All that the Father has is mine. John 16:15; 17:10. The Father is in me, and I am in the Father. John 10:38; 14:10, 11, 20.

It was fully shown in THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED that the Lord and His Father are one, just as soul and body are one; that God the Father came down from heaven and took upon Himself human form in order to redeem and save mankind, and His human form is what is called the Son who was sent into the world.


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