Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
I literally don't see how this verse suggests that Jehovah is God the Father.
1 Chronicles 29:10 Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be though Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Interestingly, I found this cross reference to Deuteronomy in the Chronicles verse, and it makes more sense to me as a verse that should have been referenced in the topical guide than the Exodus verse.
Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
What are the reasons we might call Jesus Christ our father. I hope to see more clearly the many reasons we should call him Father, as I study these verses. The Deuteronomy verse that as our father he hath bought us, which I take to mean he atoned for our sins, paying the needed price to justice to allow us to receive mercy and return to God, clean.
The verse in Psalms, though references Jesus as our Father for what I perceive to be a different reason, probably still related though, he is the father to the fatherless. I feel as though this means he cares for humanity in a way that is far more comprehensive than we realize. Throughout the ages, how have the fatherless been treated? Yet, Jesus, our Lord, will always stand with open arms.
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