We read in John 1:18, for example, that “No one has ever seen God the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” Or as we read in Matthew 11:27 and Luke 10:22, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” For in Christ, we not only get to call God Abba, but we also receive the revelation of the paternity of God the Father from Jesus the Son, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, who is eternally begotten of the Father. Furthermore, this Abba is also not just calling upon God as father in a familial, intimate manner, but calling upon the Person of God the Father, First Person of the Most Holy Trinity. In other words, God is not just father in the abstract sense as creator, but in a familial, intimate manner with his creation. Paul writes, “Abba” (see Romans 8:15), abba being a Syriac word that signifies “my father.”Ībba is a word that intentionally relates familial imagery, a word of intimacy.
For instance, since God is creator of all things, he can be called “father.” Jesus Christ, however, reveals an entirely distinct fatherhood of God: he reveals, as St. In the Old Testament, God’s people of Israel knew of God as father, but only in a general sense.
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