Monday, June 3, 2019

Does the Old Testament Adress God as Father?


I just read a National Socialist page about Indo-European origins, in which it was claimed that "Jupiter" etc prove Indo-Europeans or Aryans adressed the high god as father, which is incompatible with Semitic in which the worshippers are considered as "obad" of the Adonai or "abd" of Allah.

So, I checked. Yes, "father" does occur in Old Testament about God.

If you search "God"+"father" in the "internal google" of Douay Rheims, and if you limit search to Old Testament, you will mostly get "God of my father" and "God of our fathers" and so on.

But here are two items in which God is Himself considered as Father, from the Old Testament:

"[1] She preserved him, that was first formed by God the father of the world, when he was created alone,"
[Wisdom 10:1]

"[10] And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to eternity."
[1 Paralipomenon (1 Chronicles) 29:10]

So, the National Socialist was lying or more probably simply wrong./HGL

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