Taken up to heaven, to God the Father1. Jesus blessed his disciples and was taken up to heavenBible: Luke 24:50-51 ...

Unlike that of any earthly father, God’s goodness will never run out. In the Old Testament, Israel had a sense of God as father of a nation, father of their people. The prophet Jeremiah says, “I will ...

Scripture, St. John Paul II instructed us, tells us two things about God: that God is Love (1 John 4:8) and that God is Father (Eph. 3:14-15). These two definitions of God also point to the two ends ...

Some Christians have been confused about how to address their prayers. Should we pray to God the Father or to Jesus? Sometimes, Christians pray to God and call him Jesus, which, of course, is not ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

Catholics firmly believe that calling God "Father" was not something humans invented, but that it was revealed by God himself. One of the unique aspects of Christianity is that God is called "Father." ...

Jesus is a master of bold statements. His words caused strong emotional reactions that made people want to follow Him or kill Him. He often taught in parables so when Jesus spoke a direct truth it was ...

Fr. Thomas Reese—former editor in chief of America magazine and now a senior analyst for Religion News Service (RNS)—recently promoted an essay on why our preferred pronoun for God should be “they.” ...

Did God the Father punish Jesus on the cross? Some Christians say, “Yes.” For example, the late Reformed theologian R.C. Sproul, in his 1985 book The Holiness of God, writes, “[Jesus] was the only ...