Stichwort: Bibelstellen

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, Bernard J.F., The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: Bibel - Erlösung

Index: Gott der Vater sendet seinen Sohn, um die Menschen zu erlösen

Kurzinhalt: Our answer is that sacred scripture most clearly teaches that God the Father sent his Son to redeem the human race.

Text: QUESTION 22 - Did God the Father send his Son to redeem the human race?

447a Our answer is that sacred scripture most clearly teaches that God the Father sent his Son to redeem the human race. Still, lest the question regarding the missions of the divine persons seem to be about concepts rather than realities, it is best to quote the following texts. (Fs; tblVrw)

Galatians 4.4: 'But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.'

447b St John has more fully expounded this same teaching. For the one who sends is God the Father (John 3.16-17, 5.23, 8.16, 14.24, 20.21), the living Father (6.57), the Father testifying (5.37), the Father drawing [people to Jesus] (6.44), the Father giving a command [to Jesus] (12.49), the only true God (17.3), whom the persecutors do not know (15.21). (Fs)

The Son who was sent teaches not a doctrine of his own but that of the one who sent him (John 7.16, 7.18, 8.28, 12.49, 14-24); similarly, the Son who was sent seeks not a will of his own but the will of the one who sent him (4.24, 5.30, 6.38, 8.29); indeed, the Son can do nothing by himself (5.19, 5.30). (Fs)

447c The Son was not sent to be alone (John 8.16, 8.29, 10.30, 38), nor did he come on his own (7.28, 8.42); but he knows the one from whom he is and who has sent him (7.29), and he can say, 'Whoever sees me sees him who sent me' (12.45), and finally, he goes to him 'who sent me' (7.33, 16.5). (Fs)

The Son was sent out of the Father's love (1 John 4.9; John 3.16; Romans 8.32), was sent in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8.3), for the salvation of the world (John 3.17), that we might live through him (1 John 4.9), that the world might believe and know the Father who sends and the Son who is sent (John 5.24, 6.29, 11.42, 17.8, 21, 23, 25) and have eternal life (John 5.24, 17.3). (Fs)

447d This mission has its extension. For just as the Father sends the Son, so the Son sends the apostles (John 17.18, 20.21). 'Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me' (John 6.57; see 5.26). 'Whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me' (John 13.20; see Matthew 10.40, Luke 10.16); conversely, 'Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him' (John 5.23). (Fs)

449a It is clear, therefore, (1) that a divine person is the one sending, (2) that another divine person is sent, (3) that the divine person who is sent lives because of the one sending, teaches the doctrine of the one sending, wills the aim of the one sending, and performs the works of the one sending, (4) that the divine person is sent to human persons in order that they may live, believe, know, love, and perform greater works (John 14.12; see 9.3-4, 10.32, 10.37, 14-10-11, 15.24, 174), and (5) that through the mediation of others this mission extends to other human persons. (Fs)

Stichwort: Bibelstellen

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, Bernard J.F., The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: Bibel - Sendung des Geistes

Index: Vater, Sohn: Sendung des Geistes

Kurzinhalt: QUESTION 23 - Do the Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit?

Text: QUESTION 23 - Do the Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit?

449b Our answer is that sacred scripture clearly and with certitude teaches the sending of the Holy Spirit by the Father and the Son, although there are fewer texts concerning this mission. (Fs)

Galatians 4.6: 'And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father.'"
John 14.26: 'But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.' See John 14.16-17. (Fs)

John 15.26: 'When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.' See John 16.7 and 1 Peter 1.12. (Fs)

449c Hence, the Holy Spirit who is sent is said to be given (John 14.15; Romans 5.5; 1 Thessalonians 4.8; 1 John 3.24, 4.13), to be received (Romans 8.15; 1 Corinthians 3.2; Galatians 3.2; John 20.22; see 2 Corinthians 11.4), to be had (Romans 8.9; 1 Corinthians 7.40; see Hebrews 6.4;Jude 19), indwelling (Romans 8.9, 11; 1 Corinthians 3.16, 6.19; 2 Timothy 1.14), to be poured out (Titus 3.5; Acts 2.33), to be supplied (Galatians 3.5), to be the pledge of our inheritance (Ephesians 1.14; see 2 Corinthians 1.22; Romans 8.23), to be a seal (Ephesians 1.13, 4.30). (Fs)

449d Besides, as the doctrine of the Son who is sent is not his own but that of the Father, so also the Spirit who is sent does not teach his own doctrine; John 16.13: 'When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears ...'

451a Furthermore, as the Son who is sent is not alone (John 8.16, 29), so also the Spirit who is sent and indwelling is not alone. For after John tells about the Advocate who is to be sent 'to be with you forever' and says that 'he abides with you, and he will be in you' (John 14.16-17), he soon adds, 'We will come to them and make our home with them' (John 14.23). St Paul likewise very easily goes from the Spirit to Christ: '... since the Spirit of God dwells in you' (Romans 8.9), and 'if Christ is in you' (Romans 8.10). Thus, both John and Paul sometimes speak of God abiding (1 John 4.12, 13, 16), and of the temple of God (1 Corinthians 3.16, 6.16). (Fs)