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I remember year's ago being surprised when I first heard a priest friend ( he had been one of Mother Theresa's priests in Calcutta) , would start the Lord's prayer by saying "Our Mother and Father....."
But I can't disagree with him.
If someone says the word "God". What pops into mind? Man?, Woman?
I maintain, whatever "pops into mind" is incomplete.
Out of curiosity was your Priest friend a Thomason Catholic? The Mother/Father translation comes from the Aramaic Lord's Prayer and the word Abwun (Pronounced Avoon) translates into English as Mother/Father -- a being that is both, yet has no gender.
Just my opinion, but it seems to me that people like to talk the good talk and intellectualize God as an invisible spirit, etc., etc. However, when in their deepest most personal thoughts on the subject, they fall back on the representation of the God that they formed their early images of from movies, pictures, artwork and other visuals. That God was the father-like figure that was projected in the scripture stories. And the default goes something like this...
Out of curiosity was your Priest friend a Thomason Catholic? The Mother/Father translation comes from the Aramaic Lord's Prayer and the word Abwun (Pronounced Avoon) translates into English as Mother/Father -- a being that is both, yet has no gender.
I don't remember what "order" he was in. Other than the missions of charity.
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