Sentences with phrase «god as father figure»
The contemporary emphasis on God as father figure, he said, «in effect makes us deprived children of a one - parent family.»
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Just hinduism, speculation, Founding fathers figured out truth behind hinduism, corruption of truth called religions and adapted truth absolute God as their way, it was not just the bickering of hindu gentile ignorant slave Christians, but a desire to dump hinduism, racism as foundation of America.
This speaking of Christ does, like Panikkar's notion of the Trinity, maintain only loose links to the Christian understanding of Jesus as the Christ and God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and is, thus, turned into what I call a figure, a concept abstracted from Christianity, thus available to other religions.
Although drawing on this Tradition, as well as on the Hindu advaita - vedanta and the Buddhist pratityasamutpada (the interrelatedness of all beings), he eventually comes up with an abstract form of «Trinity» as a figure — a unity in triple diversity, but detached from the economic manifestation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
When one adds this to the role of «father» as protector, guardian, and provider of the family and the life of the womb, it is easy to see the preference for father as the proper anthropomorphism for the role of God to mankind in care and love, rather than for a mother figure.
-- poor parental figures as children so you joined a cult who WHORships a make believe father (who killed his son, btw)... not a very intelligent choice — but i guess i'd make pi $ s poor choices too if i was taught to never lie all the while being lie too... that is gods way — don't lie but i can — double standard i believe is what its called!
HappyMeal If you like to refer to God as a «Father», or parent figure, in people's lives then there comes a time when every child becomes independent, and no longer relies upon their parents, right?