For on Mount Tabor he appeared as a cloud and, at another time, in other ways. “Furthermore, Sabaoth is the name not only of the Father, but of the Holy Trinity.

Paul Prather: Some people in contemporary Christianity seem to shy away from referring to God as the Father because of the baggage. I get that, but I also respectfully disagree.

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...