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Mustard Seed January/February 2004
Laxity in The Feast of Tabernacles
Is God Male or Female?
Mustard Seed - January/February 2004
I am now attending college, and in my composition class, the instructor said when we write about God we have to refer to God as SHE, at times. That's what prompted me to write this article.
When reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, God is always referred to in the masculine gender. Read Genesis 18: verses 2 and 16. When the Lord God appeared in human form, it was as a man. When Jesus appeared as Christ, he said he was tghe "Son of Man," not the daughter of man. Notice Mk. 2:27-28--"and he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, therefore "the son of man" is Lord of the Sabbath. Jesus was man and God at that time, and is man and God today. If we read I Tim. 2:5 and connect it with I Tim. 3:16, these two scriptures are saying Jesus Christ is God and Man.
If you will notice in the sample prayer, Jesus told us to pray ----"Our Father" in Mt. 6:6-8. As we read in John 4:24, notice the verse stating--"God is a spirit" and His (The Father) form is masculine. When Philip wanted to see the Father, Jesus said to him--"he that has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).
Many countries of the world call a ship a she. It's obvious that a ship has no sexual gender. The Holy Spirit is also referred to as "HE." We know that the Holy Spirit is the power of God, not a being nor an entity or person. The Holy spirit has no bodily features. We can not see the Holy Spirit, we see the effects of it. We will see the Father and Christ, "the SON OF GOD" someday in their form. I have come to realize there are three aspects or elements of life. 1)The God kind, 2) The Angelic kind, and 3) Human, animal, fish, fowl, plant and tree life-kind. We as humans were designed in the likeness, "IMAGE" of God.
When Christ returns to earth, we will see Him as He is now, the way He appears now. In I John 3:2 we read --"Beloved, now we are the sons (children) of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when HE shall appear, we will be like HIM, for we shall see HIM as HE is." Yes, God the Father and Christ are both referred to as "HE."
--J. Didymus Pope
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