Essay 25 - 2024. Father’s Day. A Human Father and a Divine Heavenly Father. What does the Bible state about the word father and Heavenly Father? What is up with that religious notion of two different fathers? Did Jesus have two fathers, one human and one divine? By: Mr. George D. Patnoe. June 20, 2024.

Essay 25 - 2024. Father’s Day. A Human Father and a Divine Heavenly Father.

What does the Bible state about the word father and Heavenly Father?

What is up with that religious notion of two different fathers?

Did Jesus have two fathers, one human and one divine?

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe.

June 20, 2024.

Today was Father’s Day. Or a celebration to all of the fathers in America and all around the world too.

“Which country celebrates Father's Day?

It is celebrated in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the third Sunday of June. It is also observed in countries such as Argentina, Canada, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, and Venezuela.” (Taken off the web.)

“What countries don't celebrate Father's Day?

China. In the People's Republic of China, there is no official Father's Day.” Wikipedia

It cannot be known how many people take their fathers for granted. It seems that there is always something to bitch about when human parents are the topic of conversation for some people, especially when there are lots of children, or when there are huge differences between parent and child.

When I think of my human dad whom I did not have a real relationship with for many reasons, I often think about his own life and how he had to live growing up as a child and teenager.

What type of parents did he have and how he was treated by his parents, and what kind of relationship did he have with his parents. Sometimes or maybe most of the time those answers are hidden in the background where nobody wants to discuss certain relationships with certain people.

Me. I guess that I am a realist. I realize that nobody is perfect, even fathers. Some people cannot help but be imperfect while other people at least try to be as perfect as possible because they want to do the best job possible at whatever job or mission they are doing at the moment, even when trying to raise children and teenagers who are living in a different time period with different valves, different dreams, hopes, desires, and even a different future too.

There are moments and then there are longer moments. Sometimes there are short moments in life that just past you by, like being born into the world of people and things.

Then there are longer moments where people in your life are spread out over longer periods of time, meaning that people are stuck with people who are locked within your life for a short or long time period.

Being a dad or mom is a life-long, full time job for some parents while for other parents they want to get rid of their bloodline or children as soon as is legally possible.

I was the oldest of six kids. I got to see things about my parents that my brothers and sisters did not see, but not just because of my age. I got to see parenting skills from the top down to the youngest kid in the family.

Whereas my youngest sister only saw stuff from the bottom up, her being the youngest sister who had to look up at her older and more experienced brothers and sisters who had experienced more years dealing with the parents of the family.

There are family shows with actor fathers. I used to watch a television show titled, ‘My Three Sons.’ It was really weird to watch it when my dad would pretend to nap when I watched it a few times. I wondered what he was thinking because he also had three or more sons at that time.

Maybe he was thinking that one day I too would have three sons and three daughters.

Part of the problem with being a human father and a human son is that generational bridge between two completely different generations. For instance, my dad lived through America's great economic depression while his kids never saw the great economic depression.

Some kids have it made with very rich parents, while other fathers are very poor, or maybe they are addicted to drugs or beer, wine, whiskey, etc. or other drugs.

Thankfully, my dad drank what I consider cheap beer once in a while but he was not an alcoholic or so I think. My parents knew that I like good beer, wine, and coffee, but I would drink their beer, wine, and coffee if the need arose for me to do it.

My human dad died last year. He was 91 years old. He was raised on a farm in the state of Vermont where the snow would be above the roofs and chimneys of the tallest houses and barns. He had an 8th grade education which did not stop him from entering the United States Army for eight years.

He was a MP and he worked in a bomb unit for how long, I don’t know. He told me that he quit the Army when I was born because he did not want his newborn son to be fatherless, or to be dead for the rest of my life, which is a bit ironic because we never had a good relationship anyway as a father and son relationship for lots of reasons.

He once told me that I took after my mother’s side of the family. I don’t think he liked me in any way whatsoever. My mother’s side of the family was not raised on a farm, but more in a city setting where people are raised and lived very differently than on a farm.

The farm had a lot of mud, whereas the city had a lot of cement. The farm had a lot of different animals, whereas in the city some people acted like animals or at least like sub-par human beings.

I remember the cement sidewalks and buildings in certain childhood memories that have stuck with me over the years. A hard and cold place both in terms of the cement and buildings, but also when dealing with people. There are always lots of strangers in the city.

On the farm there are always lots of different and strange animals if you were not raised on a farm. I visited my dad’s side of the family during a family trip. We visited where he was raised as a kid and teenager from what I remember.

We visited his family’s farm in Vermont at least once when I was a boy. I was born in a big city so visiting a farm was quite the experience for me. Instead of cement there was dirt, mud, cows, and other farm animals.

I didn’t see that many people on the farm which is normal for farm life. Of course, at any young age children don’t really know a lot about people in the family, but especially strangers who walk the streets or on the sidewalks.

It was on that farm that I saw my first middle age male gay relationship between two big burly dudes who were my cousins or at least one of them was a cousin.

All I remember was someone pointed at a rather heavy or semi-fat guy, and they stated to me that he was gay. I was so young I only knew that he meant he probably had sex with another gay male.

I did not understand it and I don’t understand it now. I just don’t understand the concept of two grown men having sex with each other when the main purpose for sex is to make more human babies.

Plus, what is the attraction between two big, overgrown, fat men? Honestly, I still do not understand why two men want to have sex with each other in perverted ways, you know up the ass. In the older days, it was called abnormal sexual behavior. Today, it is regarded as normal but that does not make it normal. Nor should it be accepted as normal. It is not normal at all.

I would kill someone before I let that happen to me. There is a saying from Ernest Hemingway. He once stated that if a boy knows he is going to get raped by a man, and he knows that he can avoid getting raped by that man by killing him, and then he kills the rapist because he has the chance to do it to avoid being raped, then that boy has become a man.

In the teeny, tiny town where I live at the moment, there are a lot of gay or homo male teenagers. My guess is that because most of them are on the football team, they get to observe a lot of penises in the school football room/shower, so they think more about those teenage penises than they do about what is in the girl’s showers. Even as a kid, I never thought about other boy’s penises. Good for me I still think to myself.

Maybe there are a lot more gay teenagers today than compared to years ago because male teenagers can watch a lot of teenage gay porn, just like female teenagers can watch a lot of lesbo porn. It seems so easy for the human brain and mind to act and behave like a sexual monkey in the forest. Watch other monkeys have sex and then you do it too.

But monkeys do not read, write, or do mathematics. Monkeys do not need to read, write, and do mathematics to get a job. But teenagers should realize that one day they will need to find a job that requires at least some reading, writing, and possibly some mathematics.

Teenagers should be more concerned with reading, writing, and mathematics and getting good grades than having normal or gay sex which in the end of one’s earthly life means nothing whatsoever.

But people don’t normally think that way. They don’t like to themselves, ‘Hum, did having normal or abnormal sex really make my life better, or my soul better?

Was having sex a complete waste of time and energy when I could have devoted my life to more important things like understanding God, evil, the afterlife, dying and death? Most people, it seems, don't want to make a conscious decision to think about the deep and important things in life before they are dying their human death.

Or maybe it is because America’s society has no sexual morals, ethics, and standards anymore. Whatever the reasons are for a society having so many gay teenagers and men to blab to everyone that they enjoy having gay sex, to be so out in the open, like it is normal.

When any normal person will realize that there is a difference between normal and abnormal sexual behaviors and practices, even if those sexual practices are approved by a society in the majority.

Just a couple of months ago, a male teenager who was walking on the opposite sidewalk on the other side of the street yelled out to me that he ‘Saw his penis in my mouth.’

Here was a sexually and morally offensive male teenager being rude and disrespectful to a man who is almost 50 years older than he is currently who did not want a teenager’s penis in his mouth. Who has never had any penis in his mouth. And anyone who would be brave enough to try to put his penis in my mouth might be killed with my bare hands.

I immediately wondered if his dad was ok with how his son talks to people on the street or sidewalk. If I got to meet his father and I told him what his son said to me, what would he do to his son? I know one thing, when I was growing up, I never thought about putting my penis in anyone’s mouth nor did I want a penis in my mouth. Nor did I ever want to see, touch, feel, what comes out of a penis. People and the penis are gross. Leave the penis alone, is what I think.

I was putting my key into my house's front door and there they were, across the street, when a group of five teenagers, males and females who probably watched more porn than studying, were across the street from my house when the male teenagers yell out to me, “I see my penis in your mouth.” I turned around and asked him, “What did you say to me.” He repeated it to me. “I see my penis in your mouth.”

My mind flashed quickly through my life trying to remember if anyone had ever said that to me. Nope. Yet here I was almost close to being 70 years old when I heard those words come of his mouth, brain, and mind. So, there I was putting my key in the door lock when a rude, disrespectful teenager made the most unbelievable remark to me. What would his father think about that? What kind of father did he have? Or maybe he did not have father at home.

Then I thought to myself, I have never meant a Christian who would ever say such a thing. His parents probably were not only not Christians, but they probably did not own a Bible either.

I yelled back at him, ‘You teenage sexual pervert.’ I was thinking to myself, I am almost fifty years older than this male teenager and he is yelling at me, towards my house, that he wanted to put his teenager penis in my mouth, as if that was ok by any standard of life anywhere in the world. Really, His parents must be the lowest white-trash, low-life parents in this teeny, tiny town.

When I was a teenager, I knew that there was oral sex, but who in the world yells it out over across the street to a male who is almost fifty years older than the male teenager? Maybe his whole household, father and mother and sisters and brothers all talk like that when they are home.

Sadly, maybe they all watch porn together and then have cheap family sex, since that is the going rate for cheap sex now. Meaning valueless, not worth a penny sex.

I once used the word motherfucker in front of my mother. She simply grabbed my hand and dragged me into the bathroom and put a bar of soap in my mouth.

She asked me where I heard that word, and for the life of me, I could not remember where I heard it. I probably could not remember anything because I could not believe that my own mother had put a bar of soap into my mouth. I was a lot more careful after that. I was so young when I used that word.

That being stated, it seems that once children reach a certain age, then everyone in the family is stuck in their position in the family, the oldest, the middle, and the youngest. Or the best favorite and the least favorite. Or the most liked versus the least liked.

When I was attending the Catholic church, I heard and remembered the words and phrases like, ‘Our Heavenly Father.’ Inside my young boy’s brain and mind, I often wondered about that phrase and the words in that phrase, ‘Our Heavenly Father.’

As an adult, since I have read and studied the Bible, I have seen those words many times, or the word father in the Gospels used in different ways by Jesus or by the writers who wrote the Gospels.

But the whole human and earthly concept of Jesus not being born of a human father, but by a Heavenly father seemed to me a rather questionable story, concept, experience, if it was even true. How could anyone know if it was true or not?

Do religious people simply take it for granted that because there are stories that stated Jesus was not born of a human father, that they are true?

How could there be a biological human father and not only a single heavenly father, but a Heavenly Father of all human beings? It seemed to me that all human beings are born from a sperm and an egg in the mother’s tummy, so how could there be a Heavenly Father?

Wasn’t there a very long chain of a male’s sperm and a female’s egg in every biological species on planet Earth that created and reproduced an endless supply of biological creatures, male and female forever?

I wasn’t too young to ask questions, but I was too young to get any answers, especially since I never asked my own parents such questions. I don’t know why I didn’t ask my parents life’s questions.

Maybe I simply wanted to wait to find the answers later in life. After all, if you know too much when you are just a boy, what are you going to learn when you are older, when you become a true adult, age wise that is?

I always thought to myself that many of my questions were impossible for my parents or anyone of any age to answer because they were so deep. Now that I am older and I realized that back then, a long time ago, people were probably more simple-minded than they are today. Although there are still a lot of uneducated, simple-minded people in Ameria and all over the world.

Did my parents and all parents all believe that there was a Heavenly Father or was it just the Catholic Church who believe in a Heavenly Father? If they were the only church to believe in a Heavenly Father, why were they the only church who believe in a Heavenly Father?

In the whole human family of people, has there always been a concept of there being a heavenly father of some sort for all human beings because people for some reason liked to believe that they came from a religious Father as in the God the Father of all human beings.

But didn’t the human species evolve from the monkeys, the cavemen, and all that up to the current age of mankind? Or is there a God the Heavenly Father that just popped the human species into existence like it was a magic act.

Or better yet! Maybe there was a God the Heavenly Father who impelled the whole process of life on Earth from the one cell dividing into two cells and dividing forever until the human species with the human brain and mind appeared without any magic whatsoever.

Did all people believe that they were the offspring of both a human biological father and a Heavenly Father? What was wrong with this dualistic notion of there being two different fathers for each human being who was born from a human female’s biological body?

I have to remind myself when I am writing these questions that even I, even the great George have to remember the concept that a one-dimensional state of a human biological consciousness cannot answer a multi-dimensional question or the issue like the dualistic nature of there being a Heavenly Father and a biological father too.

In other words, the term itself implies that there is another realm of existence where there is a spiritual Heavenly Father while down here on planet Earth, there are biological human fathers, billions of them who love having sex with the female species, whether to make human babies or just for the fun of it.

I once heard a very smart person state in a lecture. “That sex is nothing but trouble.’

Is it just part of a religious belief system where people believe that they are born from a human mother who is impregnated with a human male’s sperm, then delivers a human baby afterwards who has a highly connected communicate with higher levels of existence which some people who do not know these higher states of spiritual existence so they use the words Heavenly Father just to bring it down the human and earthly realm of existence.

Just in case my dear readers do not go on YouTube and search Christian questions and issues like, ‘Was Jesus God in the flesh?’ or ‘Is Jesus returning to Earth?’ or ‘Was Jesus born out of a real female virgin?’ or ‘Was Jesus simply a human male born of a human female woman who took on divine and spiritual qualities within his human self-hood?’

I read somewhere a very long time ago that if a male’s sperm can enter a virgin woman, she can become impregnated with a human embryo whether her hymen is there or not there.

If that is the case, then the debate of whether Jesus was born from a virgin or not becomes a bit more questionable, debatable, and complex on both an earthly human level and on a higher metaphysical and religious level.

Since nobody was there to prove it once and for all, maybe the question can never be answered of whether Jesus was born with the help of a human father or a Heavenly Father. Maybe it is too late to even worry about since the course of history has been forever changed by the Christian faith.

Does it even matter if Jesus was born with the help of a human father or a Heavenly Father? Many religious people would state that of course it matters because if Jesus was created or born without the help of a male’s sperm, then he would be a really special person.

But it seems that no matter what, no matter if Jesus was born with the help of a male’s sperm or not, he has changed the course of human history, so in that way alone, he was a special man.

Can any of my dear readers imagine what the human species would be like now if Jesus had never been born, sperm or no sperm? How could the course of human history have been different if Jesus and Christianity had not existed at all?

Truthfully, that seems to be kind of confusing if you think about it logically, rationally, and intelligently. But is that true? If Jesus was created and born without the help of a male’s sperm, then what in the world, or out of the world would have impelled his birth and life?

The Gospels state in various ways that the human Jesus had a Heavenly Father. It has been questioned and stated by people not so long after the death of Jesus whether human Jesus was born from a human female named Mary who became an actual divine being during his short time on planet Earth.

Believe or not my dear readers, there were debates among people after the life and death of Jesus of what actually happened during his birth, life, and death. If example, were the stories or Gospels all real or were they all made up to prove metaphysical and spiritual truths, even scientific spiritual truths.

If looked at from a one-dimensional state of biological existence and consciousness, then the issues and questions are really confusing indeed by the human biological standards of existence and consciousness.

But if these issues and questions are looked at with a multi-dimensional state of consciousness, then two or more things can be happening at once.

For instance, Jesus was a human being born of a human female, but on a higher level of existence and consciousness, Jesus overcame his own human birth so that he could have become the Christ Consciousness or a true spiritual consciousness, a term my dear readers are familiar with if they have read my previous essays.

Was Jesus born by the normal process which entails a male’s sperm enters the female and nine months later, a human baby is born. Whether yes or no, he was still a special human baby that became first the son of man, later the Son of God, and later an immortal creature who survived the illusion called death and then he had an afterlife by ascending upwards or into another realm of existence.

Modern day religious Christians like to believe like the old time Christians, that Jesus ascended upwards above the clouds and then he went to a place called heaven. But modern-day telescopes have yet to find a place called heaven in outer space.

So where did Jesus go after his death if he had not only an afterlife, but a complete transformation from being a biological human male to a complete spiritual being in another realm of spiritual existence and consciousness?

Besides the questions and issues about the human being named Jesus who lived over two thousand years ago, who had a human father named Joseph and then he had a heavenly father named God, don’t a lot of Christians believe that they too, have a heavenly father somehow, even if they are only hoping that they have a heavenly father?

What about the people who don’t believe in the Christian religious belief of having a heavenly father after being born from a human female mother who was impregnated with sperm from a human male? Are they out of luck in regard to being born again into a spiritual being, in a spiritual realm of existence with a spiritual consciousness.

When Jesus stated in John that a person needs to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, he did not limit that process to any one person, nation, religion. In other words, everyone, every one of the 7-8 billion human beings who live on planet Earth can be born again, out of their biological human bodies into a spiritual, deathless consciousness. It is that simple as a matter of fact.

Of course, it is not so simple to do. If anyone wants to read about how to be reborn into an image of the divine Mind, I recommend a small booklet by Max Kappeler titled, ‘SCIENTIFIC OBSTETRICS.' which can be read at this link, just in case anyone would like to learn about it in today’s modern-day language, on how to give birth to your true spiritual self-hood.

https://www.kappelerinstitute.org/kappeler-files/Books/scientific-obstetrics.pdf

Well, it would seem that if people ask logical and rational questions about the heavenly father, there should be more to the explanation than simple religious guesswork it would seem to me.

But guess what? You can do it. I know you can if you have been reading my essays.

But, if a human being is thinking about these questions and issues only from a one-dimensional biological consciousness, then it would seem rather odd that any of these earthly and heavenly fatherly questions and issues can be answered and discussed logically, rationally, and intelligently, because in reality, I don’t think that they can be answered logically, rationally, and intelligently if a human being is trying to answer those issues and questions from a simple- minded biological consciousness. Actually, it can’t be done on a biological state of consciousness. A spiritual rebirth has to be done with a spritual consciousness, not a human one.

On the other hand, if a human being is thinking in a multi-dimensional state of consciousness; partly human, partly spiritual, and even partly mental as in the psychological realm of human existence, then the issue of religious Christians having a heavenly father makes sense at least in a higher dimensional realm of logic and existence.

A lot of normal non-Christian and Christian people alike, which is not saying much at all about the intelligence level when it is applied by religious Christians to the human man Jesus, his life, mission, and even his religion, simply believe in the life and death of Jesus like it is a religious fairytale instead of something on a much more spiritual and profound level of existence and consciousness.

Most uneducated and educated people do not know that after the life and death of Jesus, events and discussions about him were not as simple as many religious Christians believe they were because they only repeat words that have been told to them since the time of their own human birth. It is really horrible to think that modern-day Christians do not know how to think.

After the death of Jesus, there were many different people with different ‘religious’ views about Jesus. For example, was he first born a normal human male from a human male and female and then he became a divine and spiritual being who became at one with God, Spirit to fulfill his spiritual mission.

Or is the story of Jesus much more a metaphysical and spiritual story which can be understood by every reader of the Gospels? I would recommend that if any reader would like to learn more about the spiritual structure of the Gospels and the whole Bible buy the books on the Bible written by John W. Doorly. Or simply read them in a pdf. online at his website at: https://johndoorlytrust.org.uk/

Was Jesus really the offspring of a virgin female who was not impregnated with the sperm of a human male named Joseph, which would make him the son of man and the son of God all in one go sort of to speak? It is sad to think that religious Christians and non-religious Christians think Jesus did not live in a multi-dimensional state of consciousness. It would solve a lot of dilemmas.

It is very easy for simple-minded uneducated human beings to simply believe in the Christmas fairy tale of the birth of Jesus, how he died on the cross, and was raised three days later. But here is the question for the sake of argument.

Did it really happen that way, or as many researchers and biblical scholars have discovered. Is the Jesus story far more detailed and much more complicated if you look at and analyze the details of not only the Gospels but the whole Bible if seen and understood spiritually?

If the Bible and the Gospels are not accurate historically, then they are meaningless from a human and religious historical perspective.

But if the Bible and the Gospels are deep and profound spiritually scientific structures within structures, then the Bible and the Gospels must be understood as scientifically spiritually structures instead of a history book.

Truthfully, I am not even sure if the new Christians after the death of Jesus even cared about the spiritual truths in the Bible. It seems that people who were the new Christians simply repeated what they heard about the life and times of Jesus.

Moreover, they were more worried about who and what to follow as a religion and trying to stay alive simply because the Romans and other people would simply torture, punish, and put to death anyone who did not follow the pagan gods of the Roman Empire or any other rules of living.

I am reading a book titled, ‘A Story of Christianity.’ I am already into the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries and it looks like there are really just a lot of factors that people were worried about besides getting to the truth about life, times, death, etc. about the human man named Jesus.

There were issues of how to deal with the Roman Empire as Christians. There were debates on what to believe because Jesus being a Jew, raised as a Jew, lived as Jew, was not even a Christian himself when he died. He was a Jew when he died.

It seems Jesus believed that the world was going to come to an end by his very words. He also believed what a lot of other Jews believed in the Jewish religion.

Why don’t modern-day Jews and Christians alike ask themselves that just maybe, that the human Jesus might have been wrong about some of the elements of the Jewish religion as was believed during his time period, such that the world is to an end soon?
How soon is too soon? Jesus and the Jews thought that the world they lived in over 2000 years ago was coming to an end. Well, it come to an end, but not in the way they were hoping for at that moment in history.

Many of the Christian words, beliefs, and deeds happened after Jesus was dead and gone, no matter how it actually happened during his lifetime.

It is probably impossible to know and understand everything about the human Jesus about how he was born, whether from a sperm and an egg, or by some supernatural event by something called the Heavenly Father which of course means something spiritual, not material or biological.

There is just not enough information to know everything that happened regarding the life, times, and events of the man Jesus who lived over two thousand years ago. But of course, human beings will try their best to understand them. I bought a huge book on the life and times of Jesus, and I cannot wait to read it.

It is a huge book. I am reading so many books at the moment that it is very hard to read all of them at the same time. No, it is impossible to do it. I hope to learn more about the life and times of Jesus beside what the Gospels state about him. It should be very interesting indeed.

But maybe some of it can be assumed that the modern-day thinker, researcher, scholar of any level of intellectual endeavor can figure out with the modern-day rational, logical, and intellectual ability of delving into these issues with a multi-dimensional consciousness instead of a one-dimensional state of a simple-minded biological consciousness.

How in the world can anyone figure out all of the metaphysical and spiritual actions, meanings, truths, and even God by only looking at and trying to understand only the historical aspects of the Gospels and the life and times of Jesus? It is simply ridiculous to think that way.

If any human mind tries to figure out the times, events, life and death, of Jesus with only a one-dimensional state of a biological consciousness, they will only look at his biological body, its birth, life, and death of a religious man, a Jew, who could have done everything that is stated in the Gospels.

Or if the whole story was made up only to illustrate how the Christ man, the Christ Consciousness which Jesus possessed as his own consciousness, which could be and was demonstrated in the human realm of existence called the Jesus experience, but moreover as his own state of consciousness as he lived in the human realm of existence.

If the whole purpose of the life and story of Jesus was to demonstrate his own individual spiritual Christ Consciousness in the human realm of existence, then what is more important than the human history of Jesus is his own spiritual Christ Consciousness that anyone can have in the here and now of the earthly and human life, even in the modern-day era of false religious beliefs, which of course seem to linger even in the face of modern-day material and physical sciences.

It is amazing how people who lived centuries after the lifetime of Jesus simply made stuff up, in different groups of people, in different lands, in different cultures, even different languages when they, as none of them, never ever met Jesus or his followers.

So how were people who lived long after the lifetime of Jesus were supposed to know the spiritual truths, he taught his followers if those spiritual truths were not only not passed down from generation to generation, from century to century, but even most modern-day readers of the Bible have no idea what those deeper spiritual truths are now?

Moreover, if people were only following a very simple Christmas like story of Jesus for hundreds of years up to the present, creating a religion of religious Christian words and practices that had and have nothing to do with possessing a true spiritual Christ Consciousness which is still available to all of mankind?

Take the word Father for instance. The word Father appears often in the Gospels, in many ways.

Jesus uses the word Father like in the sentence, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

“Don’t call anyone your father because there is only one Father in heaven.’

“For your heavenly Father knows what you need before you ask him.’

As a matter of fact, the web states

“But in the New Testament, although God remains holy and majestic in our eyes, Jesus adds a strikingly clear emphasis on God as Father—both his Father and our Father (John 20:17). It is Jesus who calls God “Abba, Father” (Mark 14:36). It is Jesus who teaches us to pray to God as our Father.” (Matt. 6:9)

“How many times is the word Father used in the New Testament?

Every New Testament book except 3 John uses the word “father” at least once. As the table illustrates, the New Testament usually (63% of the time) uses “father” as a reference to God the Father. Matthew, Luke, John, Acts, and 1 John account for 189 out of 252 occurrences with this meaning.”

“How many times does Jesus say Father in the Gospels?

Jesus knocks that ball out of the park—Jesus calls God “Father” over 165 times! See how important this is to God? And I wish I could say Jesus settled the matter. But, no—to this day God longs to be called "Father." He will forever want His children, seeking those who walk away.”

In the Old Testament, the word father is used as in the phrase, “God is the Father of Israel (and Israel is his son) in the context of God forgiving and redeeming Israel.”

There is also a humanized sense of the word father as in, “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” Deuteronomy 5:16.

In these modern times, I don’t know how many children and teenagers or even adults who honor their human parents. I won’t go into any details, but my two brothers and three sisters all have different views and perspectives on our human father, as you can well imagine with your own human fathers and the fathers that have to deal with their own children/adults.

All over the world, there are all sorts of different fathers, in different cultures, in different religions, located in different nations. Of course there are fathers all over the world. Some people might state that even though that is true humanly, that there is only one, Infinity Heavenly Father of every human being on planet Earth.

If there is only One Heavenly Father, it is a shame that every human being does not realize it and behave and act according for the current and future survival of the human species or mankind as a whole.

When people hear the words Heavenly Father, I wonder what they think it means. After all, it must have meant something to the man Jesus back in the day over 2000 years ago.

He used it, but what did he mean by it? Did he mean that there was a real heavenly father up there in outer space who was looking down at him walking on Earth, being hung on a cross, and who died? Etc.

In today’s modern-day world, there are high-powered telescopes pointing very far away and so far as the human species has discovered, there has been no Heavenly Father that has been discovered yet.

Therefore, if there is some sort of Heavenly Father, it must exist as a spiritual Father and not a material/physical father, something different than a human form.

Father as is defined in the book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” states on page 586. “Father. Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Principle, commonly called God.”

Mother is defined as, “Mother. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love.”

Well, that is a step up from a humanized concept of a God, or Father, don’t you think?

That is what Jesus must have meant as a Heavenly Father. Something or some entity that was spiritual instead of material and physical, even though he would talk to it from time to time from what the records state, maybe just for fun for those lower human beings who could not see farther than what their human eyes saw.

If people are thinking in a one-dimensional state of biological consciousness and existence, then how could anyone have a biological heavenly father?

That is not logical or rational. But if people start thinking in a multi-dimensional state of spiritual consciousness and existence, then it could be stated that the Heavenly Father is a spiritual creature or being who is taking care of its spiritual creations which are spiritual images within the divine spiritual Mind or Intelligence.

On a higher level of spiritual consciousness and existence, what seems to be biological human beings are in reality spiritual images in the spiritual realm of God, Spirit, or man made in the image and likeness of God, male and female in one, spiritual existence as in one with Spirit, God, within the spiritual realm of existence.

In other words, what appears to be billions of years of biological history on planet Earth is really just the material and biological life is the exact opposite of the spiritual life and universe in the spiritual realm of existence.

What a funny idea you might be saying to yourselves. How could there be two (or more) different universes or realms of existence since this cosmic universe seems so real, as in the only universe that exists at the current moment in cosmic time?

The answer is by using a multi-dimensional state of consciousness even in the human realm of existence.

But is true. Otherwise, how could there be both a human father and a Heavenly Father?