Where Is God the Father in the Old Testament? - Lawson C Briggs - July 1974

Lawson C Briggs

THE surprising truth is that the people of Old Testament times had scant knowledge of God the Father. But He is alluded to and actually mentioned - several times. One of the purposes of Christ's coming to earth as a human was to reveal the Father (see John 1:18; 5:37; 8:19; 14:7; Luke 10:22). He would not have had to reveal Him if the God of the Old Testament, whom the Israelites had known, had been the Father. Yet a first hint of the existence of the Person who became the Father is found in the very first chapter of the Bible. "And God said, Let us [not me] make man in our image, after our likeness... " (Gen. 1:26). (This does not indicate the "plural of majesty" as some scholars have suggested.) - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library