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Father" - to use the evangelistic expression. In this
respect God is infinitely more beneficent than an earthly
father.
As regards the second name in the formula, "the Son,"
one is at a loss to know who or what this "son" is? Whose
son? If God is rightly addressed "Father," then one is
curious, inquisitive, and anxious to know which of His in-
numerable "sons" is intended in the baptismal formula.
Jesus taught us to pray "Our Father who art in heaven."
If we are all His sons in the sense of His creatures, then
the mention of the word "son" in the formula becomes
somehow senseless and even ridiculous. We know that the
name "the Son of Man" - or "Barnasha" - is mentioned
eighty-three times in the discourses of Jesus. The Koran
never calls Jesus "the son of man" but always "the son of
respect God is infinitely more beneficent than an earthly
father.
As regards the second name in the formula, "the Son,"
one is at a loss to know who or what this "son" is? Whose
son? If God is rightly addressed "Father," then one is
curious, inquisitive, and anxious to know which of His in-
numerable "sons" is intended in the baptismal formula.
Jesus taught us to pray "Our Father who art in heaven."
If we are all His sons in the sense of His creatures, then
the mention of the word "son" in the formula becomes
somehow senseless and even ridiculous. We know that the
name "the Son of Man" - or "Barnasha" - is mentioned
eighty-three times in the discourses of Jesus. The Koran
never calls Jesus "the son of man" but always "the son of