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Part of this discussion revolves around the fact that all theological reasoning is analogous reasoning. The analogies change as the culture changes and as language itself changes. When you read the links of the past, it doesn't take long to realize that we don't speak in the same analogies as did pastors in the 16th or 17th centuries, or even in the early twentieth. For example, in speaking to an adult who was sexually abused as a child, the idea of God as "father," is the least inviting concept we can use.

Wow. Y'all are giving some really good stuff to digest here.

and His seminal Jesus Through the Centuries of about 25 years ago could also inform this conversation immensely