¶ Lord’s Prayer
RBF Definitions
"I came out of a world where the Lord’s Prayer was being very generally used. I simply said I thought it has come to us through so many translations from so many languages, and we don’t even know who… it probably was a composite of thousands of mens’ thinking. It no longer possibly meant what those who did the thinking meant to say.
"For instance, I said that I don’t think it’s logical for… to ask God to make a bargain; that you’re going to forgive somebody over here–and therefore God’s got to forgive you. I said, I don’t think you have to ask God anything. We certainly don’t have to have any proselytizers for God. God is God. God doesn’t need any advocates. God is God, and there is really nothing that little human beings can tell God that God doesn’t already know.
“So I came to a completely different kind of feeling… I felt that the Lord’s Prayer was a catalyst to make me think.”
¶ Citations
- RBF taping by Dr. Michael Bruwer; Chicago, IL; 16 Feb’78
