Is the Image of God a Metaphor?

The god who spoke chaos into being, so there's a fatherly aspect. So here's what god as a father is like. You can enter into a covenant with it, so you can make a bargain with it. And i don't think that we would have got to the point where we could do that without having this idea to begin with. There's a spirit of tradition that enables you to act as if the future is something that can be bargained with. The sacrifices were acted out for a very long period of time, and now they're psychological. We know that you can sacrifice something valuable in the present and expect that you're negotiating with something that represents the transcendent future