Wife made me read the book The Shack, a short little popular Christian inspiriational fiction book about a man meeting God. God presents himself as a middle aged fat black woman that cooks comforting food and likes soul music. God then presented himself as a father figure at another appropriate time. A pony tailed goatee nature lover. The explanation was that the man needed a father to do what God was going to lead him to do next. I like the idea of imagining one God through both genders. I don't particulary like the borderline polytheistic doctrine of Mother in Heaven and it is more confusing spiritually to imagine a family of Gods. You don't hear much at all about Mother in Heaven anymore, and I wonder if it's going to go the direction of "we don't know much about that, we don't talk much about it". And in 100 years it will be buried along with Blood Atonement and Adam-God.
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