Your View of God Doesn’t Come from the Bible

Why your parents are your first theology (and what to do about it).

Your inner view of God probably doesn’t come from the Bible, not completely. How we understand and interact with God has been shaped by the relationship we had with our parents or caregivers from a young age.

We’re basically handed our “first God” in how our parents (or primary caregivers) relate to us. Later, people tell us about the God of the Bible, b…