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However, given the fire is a sign of God's presence, he who is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29) the miracle appears to point to a greater miracle: God, in grace, is with his covenant people and so they are not consumed. The current symbol of the Reformed Church of France is a burning bush with the Huguenot cross.
Kresnik, golden fire god who became a hero of Slovenia; Ognyena Maria, fire goddess who assists Perun; Peklenc, god of fire who rules the underworld and its wealth and who judges and punishes the wicked through earthquakes; Svarog, the bright god of fire, smithing, and the sun, and is sometimes considered as the creator
Our God is a 'consuming fire' in the sense in which we have taken the word; and thus he enters in as a 'refiner's fire' to refine the rational nature, which has been filled with the lead of wickedness, and to free it from the other impure materials which adulterate the natural gold or silver, so to speak, of the soul. [30]
(Acts 2:3,4) The fire represents the presence of God in the life of His people (the church) through the Holy Spirit. Fire lights up, warms up, purges, and purifies. It is the symbol of the uncompromising God. For our God is a consuming fire. [12]
Deuteronomy 4:24 "For the LORD your God is a consuming fire" Deuteronomy 6:4 "The LORD our God, the LORD is one" Psalms 84:11 "For the LORD God is a sun and shield" 1 John 1:5 "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all" 1 John 4:8 "God is love" Aquinas discussed this as analogia nominum (analogy of names). Exodus 3:14 "I am who am"
Fire, especially in the form of a candle flame, represents both the Holy Spirit and light. These symbols derive from the Bible; for example from the tongues of fire [27] that symbolized the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and from Jesus' description of his followers as the light of the world; [28] or God is a consuming fire found in Hebrews 12. [29]
A minority of Christians read this to mean that neither Hades nor Gehenna are eternal but refer to the ultimate destruction of the wicked in the Lake of Fire in a consuming fire, but which because of the Greek words used in translating from the Hebrew text has become confused with Greek myths and ideas. From the sixth century BC onward, the ...
The demiurge is also [32] described as having a fiery nature, applying the words of Moses to him: "the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire". Hippolytus claims that Simon used a similar description. [33]