The Bible gives us the right to call God, “Abba”. That is a term for father, which is an endearment. The closest I can think of an English would be “daddy”. It speaks of familiarity and all of the wonderful attributes of the relationship between a loving father and a trusting child. As I was thinking about it today I wondered how much of our concept of being a father is unique to a culture that is rooted in Judeo Christian values.
Most of my ideas of what it is to be a father in another country are based on movies and books and such as that. I don’t know how accurate they are. I know in some cultures that the boys are raised with the women up to a certain point, and then are moved over into the men’s hut. There are probably many other variations. How many of them reflect the kind of God that could be called father?
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Opus 2024-375: Middle Class Morality: Fathers
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