Rudolf Bultmann, probably the dominant New Testament scholar of this century, carried this study to a new intensity by making us aware that all of the Gospel material was encased inside the mythology of antiquity and therefore could not be literalized. The theistic understanding of God was part of that mythology. Frequently, the sun received the worship of those who recognized that without its warming rays, there would be no life behind the content of every image of God was the meaning of God as life giver, source of vitality itself. It leads to love. Love is the source and the creator of life.
Love opens the whole creation up to life and calls all things into being.
On the human level, love is the essential power that deepens our relationships and simultaneously expands our own humanity. The more we are freed by love to be ourselves, the more we are enabled to give our lives away to others. The more we know of life-giving love, the more we find the courage to risk exposing ourselves, not in some frenzy of exhibitionism, but as a way of expressing and revealing the Ground of our Being. The more we explore the depths of life, the more we discover that life is interdependent, interconnected, and indivisible. At the core of the human being there is no such thing as separateness and aloneness.