ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Falaite Fepueli 18, 2022 

THE SOURCE OF ALL INSPIRATION

KO E TUPU’ANGA ‘O E FAKAMANAVA

JOHN 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

SIONE 1:1

‘I HE kamata‘anga kuo ‘i ai ‘a FOLOFOLA, pea na‘e feangai mo e ‘Otua ‘a Folofola, pea na‘e ‘Otua ‘a Folofola

 

Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone - Ko e Folofola´ pe    

To this our Saviour's words refer, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” (John 5:17). In thus affirming, that from the foundation of the world He constantly worked with the Father, He gives a clearer explanation of what Moses simply touched. The meaning therefore is, that God spoke in such a manner as left the Word His peculiar part in the work, and thus made the operation common to both.

But the clearest explanation is given by John when he states that the Word - which was from the beginning God and with God - was, together with God the Father, the Maker of all things. For he both attributes a substantial and permanent essence to the Word, assigning to it a certain peculiarity and distinctly showing how God spoke the world into being. Therefore, as all revelations from heaven are duly designated by the title of the Word of God, so the highest place must be assigned to that substantial Word, the Source of all inspiration, which, as being liable to no variation, remains forever one and the same with God, and is God.

JOHN CALVIN

Na’e folofola ‘a e ‘Otua ‘i ha founga makehe, ‘o ne tuku pe ‘a Folofola ke ne fakahoko ‘ene ngaue ‘a’ana, pea hoko ai ‘a e fakatupu ‘o mamani, ko ha ngaue na’a na fai loua.

Ka ko e fakamatala ‘oku mahino taha´, ‘a ē ‘oku tau ma’u meia Sione, ‘i he’ene pehee, “pea na‘e feangai mo e ‘Otua ‘a Folofola, pea na‘e ‘Otua ‘a Folofola” (Sione 1:1). ‘Io, na’a ne feohi mo e ‘Otua ko e Tamai, ‘a e Fakatupu ‘o e me’a kotoa ‘i he ‘univeesi. Na’a ne fakaha mo vahe’i ‘a e ngaue ma’a Folofola ke ne fakahoko ‘i he fakatupu ‘o mamani, ‘i he’ene folofola pea hoko mai ‘a e ngaahi me’a fakatupu. Pea ko ia ai, ko e ngaahi me’a fakaha kotoa pe mei langi ‘oku fakahoko mai ia ‘o fou ‘ia Folofola, pea kuopau leva ke vahe’i ‘a e tu’unga taupotu tahaa ma’a Folofola, ko e fauniteni ‘o e manava ‘a e ‘Otua - ‘oku ‘ikai toe liliu pea ‘oku tu’uloa ‘o ta’engata mo ‘Otua, he ko e ‘Otua Ia!