BAKIT NGA BA TINAWAG NA “Nuestro PADRE Jesus Nazareno” ANG BLACK NAZARENE?
BAKIT MAY “PADRE”?
John 14:11
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
“For a child is born to us, a son is given us; the royal ornament is laid upon his shoulder, and his name is proclaimed: “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting FATHER, Prince of Peace”” Isaiah 9:5 emphasis mine
Don’t you think this prophecy is fulfilled in calling Jesus, Nuestro Padre?
ISA SA MAGPAPAGULO NG KAISIPAN NG ATING MGA KAPANALIG ITO ACTUALLY. MARAMI NA AKONG NA ENCOUNTER NA KAPANALIG NATIN NA NANINIWALANG SI CRISTO DIN ANG AMA. I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THEM THE DISTINCT DIVINE PERSONS OF THE FATHER, SON JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT PERO NAG ENDING SILA SA PAGTATANONG NA “kung ganun pala eh di 3 na ang Diyos natin”
MGA KATOLIKO PO ITO PERO HINDI ALAM ANG PAGKAKAIBA NG BAWAT PERSONA NG DIYOS. ANG ALAM NILA CHRIST IS ALSO THE FATHER.
MGA KATOLIKO PO ITO PERO HINDI ALAM ANG PAGKAKAIBA NG BAWAT PERSONA NG DIYOS. ANG ALAM NILA CHRIST IS ALSO THE FATHER.
IT IS APPROPRIATE TO CALL HIM “PADRE” BECAUSE JESUS IS GOD. HE IS OUR CREATOR. JESUS IS OUR LIFE AND OUR LIGHT [cf. John 1:1-4]. SO HE IS OUR FATHER. FATHERHOOD MEANS HE IS OUR ORIGIN. EVERYTHING CAME TO EXIST BECAUSE OF HIM AND FOR HIM AND THROUGH HIM.
SABI NG MGA MANOLISTANG PULPOL HINDI DAW PWEDENG I APPLY KAY JESUS YUNG ‘EVERLASTING FATHER’ OF ISAIAH 9:6 KASI HINDI NAMAN DAW TINAWAG NA AMA SI JESUS SA NEW TESTAMENT. BUT THEY ARE IGNORANT OF THE FACT THAT JESUS DECLARED HIS FATHERHOOD:
Mt 9:2 where some people brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a bed. When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the paralyzed man, “Courage, MY SON! Your sins are forgiven.”
Mk 2:5 Seeing how much faith they had, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “MY SON, your sins are forgiven.”
JESUS IS FATHER BECAUSE HE IS GOD, HE IS THE CREATOR AND ORIGIN OF LIFE AND AS OUR BROTHERS RIGHTFULLY EXPRESSED HE IS OUR ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST. THAT WORD OF JESUS CALLING THE PARALYZED MAN ‘MY SON’ IS NOT ONLY EXCLUSIVE OF THAT ONE MAN. ALL OF US ARE PARALYZED BY SIN SO JESUS AS OUR HIGH PRIEST CALLS US TO BE STRONG WITH HIM WHO IS OUR ‘FATHER’. VIVA NUESTRO PADRE NAZARENO!!!
THE TITLE OF JESUS AS ‘FATHER’ MUST NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE PERSON OF THE FATHER AS DISTINCT FROM THE PERSON OF THE SON. IT REFERS TO GODLY POWER AND ACTIVITY. THE THREE PERSONS ARE EQUAL IN DIVINITY AND IN POWER AND IN GLORY. SO THE FATHER, THE SON AND HOLY SPIRIT ARE EQUALLY ALMIGHTY, CREATOR, REDEEMER AND SANCTIFIER. JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR BUT THERE ARE PASSAGES REFERRING TO THE FATHER AS SAVIOR ALSO. JESUS IS THE ROCK BUT THERE ARE ALSO PASSAGES REFERRING TO GOD AS OUR ROCK OF STRENGTH. JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD BUT THERE ARE PASSAGES THAT TEH FATHER IS THE SHEPHERD OF THE PEOPLE. SO THE ROLE OF ‘BEGETTING’ AND ‘GENERATING’ AND ‘CREATING’ WHICH FLOWS FROM FATHERHOOD IS NOT EXCLUSIVE OF THE FATHER BUT ALSO THE ETERNAL ROLE OF THE SON FOR THEY SHARE THE SAME DIVINITY AND BEING.
NUESTRO PADRE SENYOR NAZARENO IS THE OFFICIAL TITLE. ANG ‘BLACK’ NAZARENE IS ONLY THE POPULAR NAME. THAT IS WHY THAT IS THE ONE BEING PROCLAIMED REPEATEDLY IN THE OFFICIAL HYMN AND IN THE OFFICIAL DECLARATIONS.