"When Jesus describes God as his Father, we have to let him define what fatherhood means. Karl Barth is helpful here: “It is…not that there is first of all a human fatherhood and then a so-called divine fatherhood, but just the reverse; true and proper fatherhood resides in God and from this fatherhood what we know as fatherhood among humanity is derived.” Therefore, fatherhood is first defined by the Father and the Son, not Adam and his children."
- James Bryan Smith- The Good and Beautiful God.
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