Originally Posted by
oldsoul1122 
My God of understanding is different than what is says in the Big Book and what I'm hearing in AA meetings. I feel dishonest and not true to myself when I say The Lord's Prayer using Him, Father etc. and don't relate to the religious aspect. I'm confused because I'm to choose a God of my understanding and then follow the one in AA. I like the program and the steps. I'm doing a step 4 and still looking for a sponsor.
from The Big Book - (from chapter 4)
"To us the realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all-inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek".
There are lots of statements just like this, throughout the Big Book, which make it clear that just because they use the word God and the He, Him, Father words - doesn't mean that those words have to be the words that YOU use.
Fill in every occurrence of those words with the term "The Great Mystery", for example. Read through and every time you read a "God word" - replace it with "The Great Mystery". Then the Big Book takes on a whole new light.