How Is God Our Father? | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0	And so, without further ado, Father John Baptist Q.
0:03.0	How is God our Father?
0:07.0	First, I would just draw your attention to an outline that should be available to you.
0:11.0	You can see on the YouTube live stream description, which has the four parts of the presentation,
0:18.0	and also the quotations from St. Thomas and Scripture that I'll be
0:21.9	referring to. So I have four parts in this lecture. First, we look at the testimony of Scripture
0:28.1	to tell us how God is our Father. And then from Aquinas, how the Trinity, the whole Trinity,
0:33.8	is the Father of Creatures. Third, though, how we address the father directly. We've been taught by
0:39.7	Jesus to do that. And then finally, a more modern concern is God our mother. So, how is God our
0:47.2	father? The short answer is, God is our father because we are his children.
0:57.0	And how have we become his children? God has adopted us through Christ.
1:00.0	But in the broadest sense of sonship,
1:03.0	and I mean the broadest, possible sense,
1:06.0	anything that has existence bears a trace of likeness to God because God is existence and anything that has
1:15.1	existence gets it from God. So all creatures of any kind may be thought of as having God as
1:22.9	father at some level. And we'll say more about this in Section 2. So we are all children by Christian adoption,
1:32.2	but even on the level of nature, the level of existence, just by having existence, we still call God our
1:39.1	father. Okay, but why should we humans think of God as our Father in the first place?
1:45.2	Because Scripture reveals this emphatically.
1:49.6	Emphatically because of the trajectory from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
1:55.1	God is called Father in the Old Testament 22 times.
2:04.4	And these cases of addressing God as Father fall into three categories. God is the father of a people. God is the father of the king. And God
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