catman wrote:
> I am not sure I understood this. It made me think tho that many people have a
>diffiuclt
> time seeing God as father, precisely because of their experience with their human
>father.
> As for His son, well as far as I am concerned, you and I are His son's and every one
>on
> this list and elsewhere iare His sons and daighters. I see Jesus as a brother.
This reminds me of something my favorite priest says:
"God does not have any grandchildren."
It surprised me the first time I heard that but, yes, there are no layers in that
relationship, and ideally no feeling of any kind of separation.
And seeing God as father... that's just too limited a concept for me. I see it as an
attempt
to poetically explain the unexplainable, but am much more comfortable with the concept
of
some amorphous creator of the universe, although whether that creator is concerned
about
what we're doing is something I'm not sure about, even though Christian faith claims
the
creator is very much concerned about us. But, as always with almost everything, I
wonder.....
Uh oh, discussing both politics and religion in the last few minutes!
What's next, sex?
Maybe later.
Although what could be controversial about that?
Ok, I'll stop.
Debra Shea
NP: TV news. No wonder I'm stressed... and chatty as a result.
