The meaning of The Father, in its use for God the Father, transcends the Bible. You can find that it goes back to 3000 BC and 2000 BC when Sumerians called the Most High God ‘ANU’. This meaning of the Father God, ANU, seems to relate to fatherhood over all gods, like the term Most High, or King above all gods. Now in Christ it includes fatherhood over special righteous humans too. One God who is over all and through all and in all, comparable to a great father of a large family who is head of family and produced each of the family making each one in it what they are (except those who go rogue or go awry, not portraying the family character or father’s character and values) and is exemplified in all.
