Friday, July 6, 2007

God's Family on Earth

You were created to be participate in God’s family. God’s essential identity and essence is Trinity. Trinity is who God is. Trinity means there are three persons in the one God; God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. God is a Family. God is an eternal family. God shares with humanity the essential qualities of a family; Parent, Child and love; Fatherhood, Sonship and the love they share. The Trinity is the perfect family unlike the human family. God’s purpose is a familial purpose; the Trinity, the family of God is stamped on creation. God is not alone our creator but our Father by grace. We are his children through Christ. We bear God’s image and likeness just as children bear the likeness of their natural parents.  Families are bound by the love bond. The Trinity is a love bond, a self sacrificial love covenant. So too is a human family, it is made of the bonds of love. God has also created a love bond with us his children. This love promise is never broken from God’s side because God always keeps his promises. Sin is when we do not keep our end of the love bond. When we are disobedient we walk away from God’s life and love. Sin causes death because it separates us from the source of life which is God. Sin separated us from God’s family but the self sacrifice of God the son re-established the love bond with God’s family. But greater then this humanity was adopted into God’s family, The Trinity. Humans through Christ are divinised. Christ established his Catholic Church as God’s family on earth. God commands all Christians to be members of his church for it is the guarantee of salvation, the guaranteed way to heaven. True Christians do not disobey Christ. God wants unity in his family. He wants his family at one on doctrine theology, morals, worship, and discipleship. His gift to assure unity is the Catholic Church. He does not want a divided family or a scattered family. He wants a unified family, unified as the Trinity is unified. He empowers his family on earth, the Catholic Church to communicate his grace and blessings to his children, like a good father.     

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