Originally posted by peejayd
* inanimate objects are always identified with female pronouns... the Mother Nature, our countries, they are identified with female pronouns... 😉* Christ is the wisdom of God... 😉
Not necessarily true....the true word for god is "EL".It's the the pronoun or verb that would make it male or female..........which you can find in the bible.........El is neither masculine nor feminine.... Like ELOHIM.
EL SHADDAI is usually translated as GOD ALMIGHTY - EL, meaning GOD and SHADDAI being a combination word - SHE, meaning WHO and DAI meaning ENOUGH. EL SHADDAI GOD WHO IS ENOUGH, GOD WHO IS SELF-SUFFICIENT (Hagigah 12a). SHADDAI may also be from the Akkadian sadu, meaning MOUNTAIN, or the Hebrew sadeh, meaning BREAST. EL SHADDAI would then be translated respectively as GOD OF THE MOUNTAIN or GOD OF THE BREAST. Variant spelling - EL SHADAI “Adonai appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai” (Exodus 6:3).
(Zohar. 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 3:130).
Jacob giving last instructions to his sons said:
Gen 49:24-25.(24) "But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God (El) of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel🙂25 Even by the God (El) of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty (Shaddai), who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb..."
(For other references to this same usage, see Isaiah 60:15-16 and Isaiah 66:10-13.)
For the full list of female imagery of God see the list on part I of Grounds for Submission
Since God transcends gender, neither gender, neither sex is enthroned in creation and neither is closer to God than the other. This brings us to the second point as a ground for gender eqaulity:
II.The Imago Daei
The image of God. Both male and female are made in the image of God.
Gensis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
God created both male and female in the divine image.Notice, it says "male and female cretaed he them." Male and Female are two sides of the same coin, both are are created in the divine image, equal, together. Adam, in seeing Eve expressed "this is bone of my bone and flesh of my felsh," in other words, now I'm whole. The only suggestion of dominance here is dominion over the earth. One species, one race, human, divided into two equal gender, both created in God's image, and it makes no distinction about who has dominon.It does not say the man had it alone, or that he is first and woman second, it doesn't say man is the lord of the earth and the woman is his side kick. We have already discussed on Grounds of Submission that "helper" was not a subordinate term. This is clearly proff that the two are eaul; they both share dominon and no distiction is made btween them, as they are both images of he divine