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To: Talisker

God is describe in scripture as if he were male.

Jesus called God his father.


7 posted on 06/16/2015 12:34:00 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

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?


11 posted on 06/16/2015 12:56:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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