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The Manifestations of God are taught to be "one and the same", and in their relationship to one another have both the station of unity and the station of distinction. [42] In this way each Manifestation of God manifested the Word of God and taught the same religion, with modifications for the particular audience's needs and culture.
The participation of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity is suggested in Jesus' final post-Resurrection instruction to his disciples at the end of the Gospel of Matthew (28:19): [39] "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit".
Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the Abrahamic religions.. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate ...
The Council of Trent, held 1545–1563 in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and initiating the Catholic Counter-Reformation, promulgated the view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as true, real, and substantial, and declared that, "by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance (substantia) of the body ...
While the providence of God usually refers to his activity in the world, it also implies his care for the universe, and is thus an attribute. [48] Although the word is not used in the Bible to refer to God, the concept is found in verses such as Acts 17:25 , which says that God "gives all men life and breath and everything else" ( NIV ).
In Christian scholarship, the Book of Signs is a name commonly given to the first main section of the Gospel of John, from 1:19 to the end of Chapter 12. It follows the Hymn to the Word and precedes the Book of Glory. It is named for seven notable events, often called "signs" or "miracles", that it records. [1]
In Christian theology, the incarnation is the belief that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the Logos (Koine Greek for 'word'), was "made flesh" [1] by being conceived through the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of a woman, the Virgin Mary, [2] who is also known as the Theotokos (Greek for "God-bearer" or "Mother of God").
Other Lukan passages that did not appear in Marcion's gospel include the parables of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son. [14]: 170 While Marcion preached that the God who had sent Jesus Christ was an entirely new, alien god, distinct from the God who had created the world, [15]: 2 this view was not explicitly taught in Marcion's gospel.