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To: aMorePerfectUnion
But back to what you deflected away from....

So IN the Bible...
God created them male and female.
So where did this likeness and image for the Female woman come from?...

If we all are created in his image?
Just where is the female/woman likeness to be found in God?


47 posted on 09/02/2022 10:21:19 AM PDT by MurphsLaw ( "Strive for peace with all men, AND for the holiness without which NO ONE will see the Lord". Heb12)
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To: MurphsLaw

—> But back to what you deflected away from....

Your argument is irrelevant.

It sits next to other fascinating questions like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

We have clear revelation directly from God that He is Father not Mother.

Doctrine comes from revelation not speculation.


48 posted on 09/02/2022 10:41:59 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MurphsLaw; aMorePerfectUnion; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; ...
" Just where is the female/woman likeness to be found in God?"

Obviously not that God has both male and female reproductive organs. Instead, while "image" perhaps may be allowed as referring to God as a spirit having a universal form (hands, face, etc.) analogous to what man physically has, I think the most acceptable understanding is that God created man as a triune being, having a body, soul and spirit (cf. 1 Ths. 5:23) with the latter being why man worships a creator by nature, which is unique among earthly creatures. You NAB posts that "image" means that man "resembles God primarily because of the dominion God gives him over the rest of creation.

In any case Gn. 1:26 does not provide any basis for God being a women, though He may refer to some motherly aspects analogous by Him ("as a" mother, not "a mother):

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. (Isaiah 49:15)

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! (Luke 13:34)

51 posted on 09/03/2022 9:19:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: MurphsLaw

The Holy Spirit will come on you, and God’s power will rest on you

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Silly question . . . . .

Eve came from the rib of Adam.


55 posted on 09/03/2022 11:11:27 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours.)
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