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trogiah
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I believe you have hit on the key idea, that is, the actual meaning of what Christ was trying to say.See, I think that’s just an expanation of what Christ was trying to say, not really at all a support to referring to our Lord as our mother.
It seems that the image Jesus would give us of God is an image of strength, compassion, justice and mercy. The way many would imagine the ideal father to be.
The thought occurs to me that some individuals have not had that experience of a father - or anything close to it - and perhaps some people have great difficulty associating those qualities with a father figure. I believe that it would be more important to Jesus that a person have an image of God with those qualities than it would that the image be of a person of male gender.
Although I do continue to think that in the ideal (more or less) world, the image of a compassionate Father is the single image that most closely reveals how we should consider God to be.
peace
-Jim