- Some like to think of God as a teacher.
- God as teacher fashions a learning environment for us.
- God as teacher guides us towards growth and development.
- God teaches love and forgiveness and many other lessons and skills.
- God also teaches through God’s word.
- Sometimes God teaches through trial and suffering and sometimes through discipline.
- God as teacher is a metaphor that denotes a less controlling deity.
- God as teacher starts to break through the male, patriarchal imagery of God.
- God as teacher suggests we are dynamic works in progress.
- God as teacher suggests our relationship with God continues to be based on need.
