113. Why is the First Person of the Trinity called God the Father?
A. He is the eternal Father of the Son of God, Christ our Savior.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
B. He is the gracious Father of all Christians, having adopted us in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:4-6 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the Law, to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying "Abba! Father!"
C. He graciously provides for all people "as a kind Father" (LC II 17).
Acts 17:28-29 "In Him we live and move and have our being"; as even some of your own poets have said, "For we are indeed His offspring." Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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