Oftentimes some would ask: “can we find a biblical reference for all the sacraments of the Church?”  And after being presented with many verses which attest to each sacrament, they would respond and say that these verses can be interpreted differently and do not necessarily refer to what we call “the sacraments.”Thus, we find ourselves in an unfruitful debate because the founding premise of our discussion was faulty to begin with.

The Bible is the book of the Church. She wrote the Bible through the Spirit, our fathers the Apostles wrote it, as did the prophets before them.

As the Israelites were living in hilly and mountainous land and surrounded by other mountains and hills, e.g. Edom, Moab, Gilead, Lebanon..., the mountains imagery was a persistent component of the OT literature, especially in the book of Psalms. We can identify some mountains characteristics that qualified them to be frequently used in Biblical imagery:

The Bible has often used mountains imagery, and we can classify this usage under four general categories, according to Bruce K. Waltke in the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.

Mountains had a special place in the Bible. Many of them were closely related with great biblical characters: Abraham went to offer his son on a mountain (Mount Moriah), Moses took the tablets containing the ten commandments written by God's hand on a mountain (Mount Horeb), Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal on a mountain (Mount Carmel); preeminently Our Lord Jesus Christ on his life on the holy land, many of the great events of his blessed life took place on mountains. He gave his most famous and recognized sermon on a mountain, he was transfigured on a mountain (Mount Tabor), and He ascended into heaven from a mountain (Mount of Olives).

In the previous articles, we have discussed the Divinity of Christ from two perspectives:

We discussed in the previous articles that Jesus has all the attributes of God and His power, and so He is full Divine, and He is God manifested in the flesh.

First: Christ has all the Divine characteristics [God’s epithets]

First: Christ has all the Divine characteristics [God’s epithets]

First: Christ has all the Divine characteristics [God’s epithets]

First: Christ has all the Divine characteristics (God’s epithets)

First: Christ has all the Divine characteristics [God’s epithets]