From the 5/22/24 The Cavalier Chronicle, Page 7, was its weekly homily entitled, God’s Kids. I copied the homily below and will comment on it.
Homily: “’Daddy’ is the New Testament image of God.”
My response: I do not regard Jesus as Daddy to everyone, though He is endlessly warm, generous, and compassionate. That is part of who Jesus is, but He is an ingenious, powerful deity, not to be trifled with either.
Still, I must allow the author of this homily to make his point.
Homily: “God is warm, approachable, gentle and wants good for us. The very best of human fathers strive to be ‘Daddy’, as God is. Join others of God’s children this week in church.
. . .all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.”
My response: On one hand, I do not like to call God “Daddy”—that seems overly flippant, and somehow disrespectfully. Jesus and all good deities are strong, powerful individuators, and want that of us too, so our relationship should be that of equals, more or less, though we are obviously not equals and will not be, but the good deities demand of us that we mature, grow up, self-realize as living angels, and such victorious personal transformations would not require that the individuators, willing and actual children of the Divine Couple and the good deities, refer to God as Daddy.
On the other hand, we are the children of the gods, and should enjoy and live up to that status and honor.
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