With all good intentions we’ve taken the “Abba Father” that Jesus told us about and we’ve put Him on a Wheaties cereal box. I can only tell you this because I am only now being able to SEE God as more than Abba Father. We all know that He is Spirit, Consciousness, Allness; however, we’ve let our ego take the symbolism of Daddy God to a dangerous degree.
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics and qualities to nonhuman beings (can you say God?). God does not SIT on anything. That’s a metaphor. Go doesn’t have legs, arms, or flowing white hair.
After enough of those descriptions, and God is no more.
God is NOT a super HUMAN!
If we’d begin the Gospel of John something like this it would take away a little of the arrogance wherein we’ve brought God down to our size.
In the beginning was the Creative Energy & Spirit.
That Creative & Energized Force was with God,
and it WAS God! And so on………….
I begin almost each morning with the salutation, Father Spirit. That helps me balance how I feel I need to see God. It’s personal, but He’s so much bigger than my humanity can comprehend- impersonal.
We’ve got so far to go in BEING!
WELL PUT AND BETTER YET SAID, THE WHOLE IDEA THAT YOU BRING
ACROSS IS ONE ARGUED ONLY BY THOSE WHO CONTINUALLY WIELD THE OLD LITERALISM SWORD AND SHIELD AS A BASIS OF ATTACKING THE WORD” WHICH MEANS NOTHING TO THEM WHO HIDE BEHIND IT RESORTING TO MOOT’ TRIVIALTIES AS A FOUNDATION OF THEIR ARGUEMENTS JUSTIFYING THEIR CONTINUED DISBELIEF. LET THEE WHO HAVE EYES SEE AND EARS HEAR” AMEN.