Yes He did. Jesus also told parables that are not meant to be taken literally, and also used the common Jewish terms to be understood.
Nevertheless, God is infinite. He is not literally the father, because one cannot be a father without a mother. In fact, if you think about it, a father literally MEANS there is a mother. So logically if God acts as a father, then the same God acts as a mother.
But to call God father and then dismiss the mother is to just break the metaphor - and disregard the evidence that perhaps, just perhaps, Jesus actually implied God the mother BY saying God the father BECAUSE the two are inseparable.
I mean, it’s not like any books from that time acknowledging the divine feminine have been thrown aside as “heretical,” right?
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.[a] 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done,[b] on earth as it is in heaven. ......"
So how is God Our Father?
God is a single Father..
…Eph 1; 5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
Gal:4;…5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
God can be Father without being mother. The mother is the one who carries the embryo to term. In creating Adam and Eve, God needed no mother, He just created them from dirt.
In the case of Jesus, God caused Mary to become pregnant, which is something Fathers do.