God - quotes Flashcards
(15 cards)
Monotheism quotes
‘I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.’
- Isaiah
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.’
- Deuteronomy
Lord: Yahweh (singular)
God: elohim (plural)
‘You shall have no other gods before me.’
- Exodus
God as omnipotent
‘Is anything too hard for the Lord?’
- Genesis
‘God raised him from the dead’
- Acts (resurrects Jesus)
‘For from him and through him and for him are all things’
- Romans
God as creator
‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’
- Genesis
‘Through him all things were made’
- John
‘For in him all things were created’
- Colossians
God as controller
‘when its waves mount up, you still them’
‘with your strong arms you scattered your enemies’
- Psalms
‘he set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved’
- Psalms
John 10:30
‘If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’
‘I and the Father are one.’
Jesus’ response to those who asked him if he was the Messiah
1 Corinthians 8:6
‘there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live’
Paul reminding Christians that monotheism is central to Christian faith
God as Personal quotes
‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find’
- Luke
God answers prayers
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son’
- John
God sent Jesus to save humanity from their sins
God as Father quotes
‘I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth’
- Apostles’ Creed
“My Father… everything is possible for you.”
- Mark
Use of Aramaic word ‘Abba’
God as Love quotes
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son’
- John
‘since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another’
- John
God as King quotes
‘I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne’
- Isaiah
‘The King is mighty, he loves justice’
- Psalms
‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ’
- Revelation
God as transcendent and unknowable
‘my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways’
- Isaiah
‘no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God’
- 1 Corinthians
The Trinity
‘We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity’
- CCC
‘may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all’
- 2 Corinthians
Anthropomorphic representation of God
‘on the seventh day he rested from all his work’
- Genesis
‘the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”’
- Genesis
‘I trampled [the people] in my anger… I stained all my clothing’ (metaphor for divine wrath)
- Isaiah
Gender-Specific language about God
‘As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you’
- Isaiah
God speaking to Israel through Isaiah
‘you forgot the God who gave you birth’
- Deuteronomy
Moses communicating God’s words to the Israelites
‘When there were no watery depths, I was given birth’
- Proverbs
speaker is wisdom personified, describing its existence before the creation of the world
Problems with gender-specific language
‘fundamental to the Abrahamic religions is the will to subvert women and establish man as the norm…a form of fascism’
- Daphne Hampson, Academy Conferences lecture
