figurative and not literal is that which we characterise and imagine we know as fatherhood in our human creaturely sphere. Figurative and not literal is even the Fatherhood of God in relation to our existence and world, as we recognise it in the revelation of His omnipotence as truth. We recognise it as truth and within the human creaturely sphere we speak of fatherhood in truth, because God is in truth Father: already beforehand, in eternity—which means even apart from our existence and world. He
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