Okay. The image is the soul (mind/will/emotions). God has a mind/will/ and expressed his emotions.)You've confused soul with spirit. God is spirit and it is His spirit within us that makes us a living soul.
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Okay. The image is the soul (mind/will/emotions). God has a mind/will/ and expressed his emotions.)You've confused soul with spirit. God is spirit and it is His spirit within us that makes us a living soul.
Let’s walk by the spirit, and God is Spirit, God is love, having compassion and mercy, and there are times where righteous anger may come out from time to time, however do not sit on one’s anger for to long, especially while the sun is setting.
Who says that spirits have no gender? Not the Bible.God is a spirit.
No gender.
I think you are over thinking this. Any time the Father, son or Holy Spirit is refrenced in scripture it is always in the masculine. God is above male and female as a Spirit and as God.
I suppose that one could perhaps make the connection that...God the Father...God the Son...so maybe the Holy Spirit would fill that bill as wife? He does say in scripture that anybody who bad mouths the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven! Thevery same reaction that many men have when their Wife is insulted. So, I dunno. But it's probably none of our business. And since scripture uses masculine pronouns for all 3...I'll stick with respecting that.![]()
Would you see Yahavahs Holy Spirit as anyway feminine? Do you think God looks down on people who express themselves differently? Is God unable to dwell in them? Even if by your own “feelings” disagree with their choice?
Sorry those things are very confusing to me. I’m just going off the merit that God created mankind in his image male and female he created them.
”This [is] an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him; a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.“
Genesis 5:1-2 YLT98
”This is the history of Adam’s family. When God created people, he made them like himself. He created them male and female. And on the same day he made them, he blessed them and called them “humans.”“
Genesis 5:1-2 ERV
”This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.“
Genesis 5:1-2 KJV
Would you see Yahavahs Holy Spirit as anyway feminine?
A user on another forum (who I think has the same handle here on CB) pointed out that in Revelation 1:13 (KJV)...
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
... the Greek word translated "paps" is "mastos", from which we get the word "mastectomy". Breasts or nipples. Not "stethos" ("chest", from which we get "stethoscope"). So, either the glorified Son of Man has breasts, or he wears a golden girdle around his nipples, and either way I'm uncomfortable. He is actually wearing the robe of a high Priest, I think.
The Christian Bible is my referenceWho says that spirits have no gender? Not the Bible.
He created us in his image. Man and female. That’s God given soul.What a strange discussion, at least to me. It would never have occurred to me that the concept of male or female would apply to the transcendent Creator who is Spirit, Light and Love.
We are talking about traits that are expressed from God. He is masculine, and feminine because me he created us in his image, to be able to have his traits. It’s the Holy Spirit that leads to us to being humble, forgiving, loving, toward others. That’s not a trait most males have.Yes, the Bible indicates God "fathered" Jesus, and Jesus used the term "Father," but I at least have never thought of these as anything other than useful anthropomorphisms.
Jesus was very much the Son of Man. But he also expressed feminine traits along the way, compared to the brutal ways of man in stoning the prostitute to death.The Jews and Jesus existed in a thoroughly patriarchal culture where essentially everything of consequence was viewed from that perspective.
Yeah.If Jesus had been the Daughter of God, His ministry would probably have never gotten off the ground.
Talking about traits.As I think of God, the concepts of "male" and "female" simply don't apply. To call God "male" would seem to me to place a limitation on a Being who transcends all limitations.
Talking about traits Darby. God is masculine in every trait as he is feminine. It’s his expression. Wouldn’t you say?Actually, I find the most useful image of God to be the Being of Light reported in so many Near-Death Experiences! It's personal, a "being," but simply an effable Spirit of Light and Love.
Who says that spirits have no gender? Not the Bible.
That isn't what it means, which is the problem with relying on one's own interpretations rather than the best scholarship. The late Dr. Michael Heiser and others have shown convincingly that what it means is that humans were created to be God's "imagers" - representatives - on earth, to exercise dominion over the earthly part of creation. Even those who read it literally generally understand it to mean that we are in God's image in terms of capacity to reason, love, etc. I have actually never heard anyone suggest there was a sexual component - that Adam and Eve represented the male and female aspects of God, which strikes me as absurd. God created male and female among all creatures in the earthly realm for procreative purposes, not to demonstrate that He is both male and female.He created us in his image. Man and female.
That isn't what it means, which is the problem with relying on one's own interpretations rather than the best scholarship. The late Dr. Michael Heiser and others have shown convincingly that what it means is that humans were created to be God's "imagers" - representatives - on earth, to exercise dominion over the earthly part of creation. Even those who read it literally generally understand it to mean that we are in God's image in terms of capacity to reason, love, etc. I have actually never heard anyone suggest there was a sexual component - that Adam and Eve represented the male and female aspects of God, which strikes me as absurd. God created male and female among all creatures in the earthly realm for procreative purposes, not to demonstrate that He is both male and female.
When you go off the rails at the outset, you never get back on. I remember a law professor talking about the interpretation of statutes: "READ THE DEFINITIONS FIRST!" Non-lawyers who dive straight into statutes typically make fools of themselves because they don't understand how the terms are being used. To interpret "made in His image" as "male and female" strikes me the same way.
The problem is, the best biblical scholars disagree with you. (Heiser was a massively influential OT and Semitic language scholar: Dr. Michael Heiser - Biblical Scholar | Author | Semitic Languages Expert )That’s what I understand when I read scripture, perhaps you have a different take. But that’s what I just get from reading it. You are more than welcome to disagree.
Please provide the book, chapter and verse saying that spirits have no gender.The Christian Bible is my reference
It says ANGELS don't get married. Are angels the only kind of spirit? No.Scripture doesnt say spirits are without gender it just says they dont get married.
As I said, the Bible is my source.Please provide the book, chapter and verse saying that spirits have no gender.
You can't. It doesn't say that.
yeah.@MatthewG
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
GAL. 3:28
There is no sex in heaven, nor marriage.