Yahweh-Father
Introduction:
The Church
doctrine starts that in God, there are three persons who are distinct within
the unity one sole nature. The word Trinity comes from the word ‘Trinitas’
means three in one. Trinity reveals to us as Father through the Son in the Holy
Spirit. Mark mentioned in his gospel that “for all things are possible
for God” (Mk, 10: 27). This is a mystery beyond understanding of human being,
if God does not help to understand. God is a community person by perfect love
and knowledge and communion.
Yahweh
The most
important name for God used in the Old Testament. “It is used in 6,400 times in
the Bible.[1] It
shows full and proper name of the Lord of Israel. There are many opinions on
naming god as Yahweh and meaning also differ person to person, for some it is
said Yah! means “It is he” but this
does scant justice to the revelatory character of the name. Other word traces Hyh or Hwh which is verb ‘to be.’[2] Lord
himself speaks with Moses from the burning bush (Ex, 3: 14) and there He said
His name “I am who am.” The name urges therefore to be re-organized a perfect
answer, containing in it a revelation of the Lord’s true nature.
We can say God
has no change and always remain same ‘what he is’ and definitely reliable unchanging.
Always present. He manifests His saving interest to His people and is ready to
help them. Through his actions people know him as ‘that I am Yahweh.” Some
translate the name this way ‘I shall be, what I was’ which would bring out the
Lord’s eternity according to many text (Gen 4:26, 12:4, 26:25).Yahweh was known
before the food and by the patriarchs and it is another way of affirming the identity of Yahweh with god worshiped as
El, or El-Shaddai, or Elohim.
Diversity
Everybody is
unique in creation and that is why my personality is also different from others
where we find diversity in the life of God. God the Father designs the
universe, God the Son saves the creations of God and God the Spirit bless all
these things and make it holy, that is why it is a great diversity of life,
operation and activity. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are the one God
in the same substance but I and not denying the union of love of the Trinity.
“They broke their bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous
hearts, praising God and having the good-will of all the people” (Acts 2: 46).
The Holy Trinity encourages me to be a designer of communal love in my own
society.
Father
In the Old
Testament the immediate male progenitor, the head of the people or tribe, but
in most instances is used to refer to God, this Christian practice probably
derives from the intimate term for Father that Jesus used to address God. Father
is also the term for God Jesus used in the prayer, He taught his followers.
Rather than being derived from a human analogy, the term father for God
represents the ideal by whom very human father is to be judge.
The Trinity before Christ
Before Jesus’
born Trinity was unknown to the people, when Abraham came to know god about
1850 BC that time most people were polytheists. They believed in many gods. God
Himself convinced these people (newly chosen people) that there was lonely one
god Yahweh. Many way He helped them show them the mercy and kindness and gave
them Ten Commandments there He told them-“I the Lord am your God who brought
you out of the land of Egypt that place of slavery. You shall not have other
gods besides me” (Ex 20:2, 3). He shows them many miracles and they came to
realize that He was not only the better of all gods but the one and only God,
all- powerful creator of all things.
Trinity in New Testament
Christ reveals
God’s three in oneness. Christ teaches using ancient doctrine- the Lord our god
is one God (Mk 12:29). He tried to show how this God in human is the Father; a
Father who truly loves us cares for us and watches over us.
Jesus gradually
introduces himself that He is too God. He is the Don of God, not just as we are
but true and proper Son of God the only begotten of the Father. He is not
clamming record God he says He and His Father are One. After Ascension, He
sends the Holy Spirit to his apostles. St John mentioned that Holy Spirit is a
person, together with the Father and Son.[3] We
the students are taught from the lesion of different general councils. St Paul
joins all three persons in liturgical formulas as God, Lord and Spirit. God was
reserved for the Father. As he records prayerful expression of Trinitarian
believe such as “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (II Corinthians 13:13). Jesus
gave last instruction to the Apostle that to make disciples of all motions baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.[4]
‘Abba’ our
Father the first person of the Trinity
The supreme
achievement of theology is learning to know God our Father. We can be fully satisfied
in our intellectual search for God only when we draw from these primary sources
which are also the ultimate goal of all human knowledge. Our Christian faith
has not adequately emphasized the person of God the Father and liturgical
worship has not focused enough on the divine person. Father has himself allowed
us to know him and He send his Son in our midst and became one of us. Father portrayed
himself in the human face of Jesus. He made himself accessible to our gaze the
mystery which he allows us to enter.
The truth is
that to discover the Father is to become aware of his proximity, the proximity
of the most authentic and loving Father. While possessing supreme transcendence
his paternal love brings him very close to humankind. Christian realize that
the Father does not dwell at an unreached able distance from their daily live.
He is involved in all the events that occur around them and responds to all
their anxieties. The discovery of God the Father is the discovery of the true
framework of their daily lives. Jesus’ personality is the gospel is his filial
fervor. Jesus hived for the Father and draws others to him.
‘Abba’ the expression of Jesus
Jesus Introduced
God as Abba. Jesus son ship has come not from his title Son but from the name
he gives the Father. In pronouncing the name of Father Jesus defined himself.
The invocation Abba is the hallmark of Jesus’ prayer. Jesus has bridged it and when
he prays he cannot fail to complete intimacy that unites him to the Father. Jesus
prayer is human, perfectly human, and it makes use of a human word that is
commonly used by all children. It is the prayer of a Son who has been from the
very start at the divine level of Father.
Incarnation of the Son
Meaning of the
term is to inter into or become flesh. We believe that in the history of
salvation of the world, the Son of God while remaining fully divine became
truly and fully human. “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father,
full of grace and truth” (Jn1:14).Saint Paul speaks of God who sent forth his
Son (Gal, 4:4, Rom, 8:3) and of Jesus Christ as the one Lord “through whom are
all things and through whom we exist” (1Cor, 8:6).[5]
Conclusion
The Trinitarian
mystery is really difficult to understand to human being, when we will meet
face to face with God in heaven then every will be cleared to us. Though we
know the Father as a creator, Son the redeemer of human being and the Holy
Spirit who sanctify the earth creation all these are possible because of the
help of God. He revealed to us as we can know Him. It is achieved through God's
union with human nature, in Jesus Christ who although fully God, humanly died
for us to purchase our redemption. This communion with the Father is the goal
of the Christian faith, devotion and life, where as we will grow in God when we
love one another and forgive others those who sin against us this way we will
fulfill the will of God.
Bibliography
1. SERMEJO,
Luis M: Abba, My Dad!. Gujarat
Sahitya Prokash, Gujrat, India, 2003.
2. KELLY,
Robert H.: God the Father. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, USA, 1979.
3. GALOT,
Jean: Abba Father We Long to See Your
Face. Trans., St Paul Press, Mumbai,
1999
4. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003, v. 14, s v, “Holy Trinity”.
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia for School
and Home,
vol.12, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
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