What if there were a Mother in heaven? How would that impact what we know about God, who is also known as our Father in heaven?
I guess it all depends on what we think we know about God. As it is, different Christian sects teach so many different things about God, they seem, at times, to be worshiping different Gods. Yet, they all operate under the banner of Christianity.
While this isn’t the time for a long exposition on what the Bible actually teaches about God, we have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is the Catholic Church.
I’ve chosen the Catholic Church because it’s been around the longest. Also, because pretty much all the mainstream Protestant churches have their roots about God in the Catholic Church.
To start off, the Catholic Church pretty much shrouds God in a cloak of mystery—unknowable, without body, parts, or passions, three-in-one and one-in-three, etc.
Taking that into consideration, it makes me wonder whether there is anything left to worship. No offense intended, but it is what it is. I didn’t make up the definition.
How would a Mother in heaven fit in with such an unknowable being, if what is described can be called a being?
Here’s the thing: With that kind of a God, or Father in heaven, there would be no real point in there even being a Mother in heaven.
But, if there is a Mother in heaven, I would think she would be connected with our Father in heaven in some way. That, to me, would tend to make God more of a personal God than the void-like, non-being the Catholic Church makes him out to be.
However, the idea of a God that is all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere present (through the Holy Ghost), can be rather daunting.
On the other hand, the idea of there being both a Father and a Mother in heaven can be quite comforting. That, for me, would bring a little more personal-ness to our Father in heaven, making him a more apt target of my worship.
However, some, if not most mainstream Christian churches, balk at the idea of a personal God, at least by their description of him. Personally, I don’t see how anyone could worship anything less than a personal God—one with which he could identify.
I mean, we’re supposed to be created in his image. If we were created in his image, as described above, shouldn’t we also be unknowable, without body, parts and passions?
I have to wonder how anyone can pray to such a non-being being, and actually expect to get an answer. How could one worship such a non-entity entity? How could we know that we could ever please him (or it)?
How does one worship a being who has no body, parts, or passions, who, indeed, is unknowable? We might as well worship the great void of space, as the New Agers, followers of “The Secret,” and others appear to do, who substitute “the universe” and other names for that of God.
So, in my opinion, to properly worship God, we must have some notion of who or what he is. The idea of there being a Mother in heaven brings God a just little bit closer.
Lastly, our having a heavenly Mother makes more sense to me than not having one. The Bible tells us we are the sons and daughters of our Father in heaven.
Again, when was there ever a son or a daughter without there being both a father and a mother? In this case, a Father and a Mother.
To me, a father having children without the children having a mother seems, at best, rather ludicrous. Like the old saying goes: As above, so below; as below, so above.
The idea of there being a Father, Mother and children in heaven opens the door to all sorts of possibilities. Of course, with billions and billions of children, we all can’t sit around the fireplace at one time with our heavenly Father and Mother. Even so, it’s intriguing to think about the possibilities.
What do you think?
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