Bulkeley, Tim2019-09-252019-09-252016-04-0120140118-8534http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/236494"In my previous two lectures, I stressed that the God of the Bible is not "a god"—that is, God is not one being among many (or even few) of a kind but is totally and completely unique. This is expressed in the Hebrew word 'echad, meaning the one, the only. I then went through some of the Scripture passages that make use of motherly language or pictures to talk about God, suggesting this provides us with a resource to broaden the ways in which we think and talk about God. Before we begin, it is important to state that I am not suggesting we should stop calling God "father." For Jesus called God "father," so naturally we should continue to do so. What I am suggesting, however, is that our talk about God would be fuller if we explored and used other ways of speaking about God to help fill out the picture so that our language and thought are closer to the truth."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderJesusFatherGodScriptureNew TestamentBiblical TheologyOld TestamentNew TestamentDogmaticsJesus ChristArticle