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The concept was highly important to early Quakers, who taught: "God reveals Himself within each individual's conscience and consciousness by the Holy Spirit, Christ Himself being the Light to illuminate man's sinfulness and lead in the way of truth and righteousness. ... this light is in all men by the grace of God to lead them to Christ, and ...
God reveals Himself as masculine, not feminine. God ordained distinct gender roles for man and woman as part of the created order. A husband and father is the head of his household, a family leader, provider, and protector. Male leadership in the home carries over into the church: only men are permitted to hold ruling positions in the church.
The love of God for [Catholics], in perhaps the boldest of all metaphors (and one with which the Church has been perennially uneasy), is like the passionate love between man and woman. God lurks in aroused human love and reveals Himself to us (the two humans first of all) through it. [9]
Harnack’s work was considered to be a rediscovering of the concept of the Hidden and Revealed God whereby ‘the notion of hiddenness expresses a double relation of God to the world: outside of Christ he is the free, all-working, majestic God of the Law; in Christ he is the gracious Redeemer who has bound himself to his Word and Sacraments ...
God further revealed himself through covenants between Noah and Abraham. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] God delivered the law to Moses on Mount Sinai , [ 20 ] and spoke through the Old Testament prophets . [ 21 ] The fullness of God's revelation was made manifest through the coming of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
The beatific vision is when God, though transcendent, opens himself up to people and angels, giving them the capacity to contemplate God in all His heavenly glory. [43] Contemplation is the prayer of silently focusing on God and heeding His word; in other words, contemplation is the prayer of uniting with God. [44]
Rather than use an idol, God chose to reveal himself in words, by working through people, and by working in history. [36] According to the Book of Joshua, Abraham came from a land and a family that worshiped strange gods. [37] However, when their God revealed himself to Abraham and called him to leave his native land for Canaan, he did so. [38]
It is the human creature, therefore, and not God, who engenders hell. Created free for the sake of love, man possesses the incredible power to reject this love, to say 'no' to God. By refusing communion with God, he becomes a predator, condemning himself to a spiritual death (hell) more dreadful than the physical death that derives from it."