[Baptism] is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. (1 Peter 3:21-22) [Father]
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me in the center of the broad valley. It was filled with bones. (Ezekiel 37:1) [Holy Spirit]
The finger of God
When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger. (Exodus 31:18) [Father]
“If it is by the finger of God that [I] drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Luke 11:20) [Holy Spirit]
Two Persons, the Father and the Holy Spirit, sometimes coincide in one metaphor, the hand or the finger of God.
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The hand of God
Delete[Baptism] is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. (1 Peter 3:21-22) [Father]
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me in the center of the broad valley. It was filled with bones. (Ezekiel 37:1) [Holy Spirit]
The finger of God
When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger. (Exodus 31:18) [Father]
“If it is by the finger of God that [I] drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Luke 11:20) [Holy Spirit]
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PHOTO CREDITS
ReplyDelete“Candles,” “Wind,” “Water,” “Cloud,” “Seal”
Public domain photos
“Pentecost,” “Ray of light”
PickPik royalty-free photos
“Dove”
Photo, cropped, courtesy of Peretz Partensky
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Doves_at_the_Blue_Mosque_%285778806606%29.jpg
“Holy oil”
Photo courtesy of Jonathunder
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OleaSancta.JPG
“Hand of God”
Photo, cropped, courtesy of Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5398/creation/
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