Proverbs 15:5, Fatherhood – Human and Divine
1. The Heavenly Father: The attempt to deny the title Father to God and replace it with mother or goddess figures is well underway in liberal churches. They argue that it makes no difference what we call God. Father is only an idea drawn from human fatherhood. Fatherhood, therefore, is not essential to the nature of God. This, we contend, is a serious error. It is not just a matter of gender-correctness. It is a subtle attack on the Trinity, on the eternal Sonship of Christ, and the divine institution of fatherhood as well. True, some human fathers are abusive or abandon their families. The word father, for many, is not a pleasant one. Some cry, Can we expect such hurting people to pray, “Our Father”? The Fatherhood of God, however, is the source of all human fatherhood, not the reverse. There are human fathers only because there is the Heavenly Father.