Since there is no such thing as a "he" without a "she," how could Jehovah be identified as male from the start

Question

?????? Where is the female counterpart?

Knock yourselves out with that one folks.

Answer 1

God made man in His image
Woman was made from man
not man from woman

Answer 2

You are assuming that your primary premise is correct or at least accepted. Who says there is no such thing as a "he" without a "she?" Where did you come up with that?

God, or as you put it, Jehovah was said to be male if for no other reason that societal acceptance of an authority figure ... in that culture. Who, in those days, would have followed a Jewish God who was a female? Not many I suspect.

Kev

Answer 3

The Watch Tower claims to be the inspired prophet or spirit-directed (observe video games through the WTBTS) through pointing out that the Governing physique of the business enterprise is "the trustworthy and Discreet Slave" dispenses the terrific nutrition on the terrific time ect. ect... The Governing physique additionally states that basically through them can the followers attain "any" understanding of the bible. >on the comparable time and it is noted as "talking from the different area of their mouth"< They declare to no longer have any direct concept and submit their conclusions from interpreting the bible. each and every mistake and fake prophecy they have made they have claimed that the two their followers misunderstood or they had "new mild". This new mild excuse is likewise noted as "brighter mild". it incredibly is exciting that as quickly as a guy or woman interpreting the bible has a extra physically powerful God-given illumination, like the solar becoming interior the day, they do no longer see a horse then a cat then a horse back. The Watch Tower and its Governing physique prepare deception. ________ it incredibly is an astonishing question it incredibly is addressed through a pair distinctive former JW web content which i've got not got time to seek up at this factor to place up references. There are great posters on Yahoo that don't decrease and paste from wordy web content. _______ Peacelliy is authentic. Nathan spoke to David in the previous inquiring of God Almighty. YAH mentioned, "No". Nathan had additionally reported for David to do what grow to be in his coronary heart and that David did which secure adultery and then homicide to conceal up the adultery. YAH understanding this does not have His Temple geared up through nor enable the privilege of making His Temple through David..

Answer 4

God is referred to as "He" because it is used in reference to the relationship that He has with us as His children. The Father provides for His children. This is the pattern that He established. In the family, the father provides for them all.

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" Matthew 7 verses 7 - 11

There isn't a female counterpart, not as some may say because it comes from a male dominant religion, but from the simple fact that in the way things are. God created by speaking things into existence, not from creating something from some "eternal womb". God said "Let there be light, and there was".

Answer 5

I don't know if you'll like hearing this, but YaHWeH (Jehovah)and El were originally names of male deities in the Canaanite religion. El was the Father Sky God. And he had a wife, whose name was variously formed Astarte or Istar or any such form. They gave birth to all the subsequent deities, including YHWH and Ba'al in the Canaanite myths.

When the Israelites moved into Canaan, they appropriated the names of the deities that best fit their conceptions of God as the supreme deity. Thus El and YHWH became names for God, because the myths of El, for example, became ways to orally teach people about God. However, the Israelite priests in particular were careful to modify the myths to present their own image of El distinct from the actual Canaanite deity El. Similarly with the ideas of YHWH. They adamantly rejected the idea that God could have offspring and so Astarte as you can imagine became a prohibited deity. You'll notice her name crops up quite often as Ashtoreth in the Bible, always in a denigrating way. It seems the people in general had a much harder time than the priests in separating out the myths of the people around them from the theological truths they inherited from Moses and Abraham and Jacob. It really wasn't until after the exile that Israelite religion became purified into the Biblical monotheism that we know today.

Answer 6

the original Hebrew uses the words for I AM as the name of God. These words are not gender specific. When describing a person in English you have the options he, she, or it. Since 'it' is consider an insult that word was not used. Standard usage in English is to use the male form when refering to a nongender specific. This is re-enforce by the references to God as Abba (father) in the old testament.

Answer 7

God is a spirit being, and therefore has no physical body, and thus no specific sex, similar to the angels.

However, God does always speak of Himself in the male sense of the word and is called a King multiple times.

The female counterpart you speak of? Although I disagree with your reasoning, the Bible does refer to a "female counterpart" in a manner of speaking. In Genesis 3:16 God speaks of the enmity between the woman and her seed, and Satan and his seed. The "woman" is not Eve, but instead represents heavenly Israel, or God's angelic organization. The cooperation and respect that exists between the two, as in the "wife" or organization is subject to it's head, Jehovah God, or as He has called Himself, their "husbandly owner" is reminiscent of the relationship between husband and wife.

Answer 8

Actually, there WAS such thing as a "he" without a "she"...it was right after God created Adam and before He created Eve. God does not have a gender; he is not restricted to any human form. People call Him "him" because people like to classify God in terms they undersand. When it says that God created man in His image, it doesn't mean that God has a physical body, but that humans were created to be like God, to seek Him out and to desire to be like Him.

Answer 9

You can have a "he" without a "she". Adam was created first and woman was made from him...we couldn't have a "she " without first having a "he". Till the day Eve was made there was no she counterpart to man (who is made in God's image).

Answer 10

Good question. Sophia is the answer. Look her up, she's a Gnostic concept. Before the creation of the universe, there was God, a genderless entity. In order to create the universe God created Jehovah (Yahweh) the physical creator out of itself. What was left over was Sophia, Yahweh's spiritual counterpart. Yahweh created the physical world and Sophia breathed life into it.

The more modern concept of "Holy spirit" originates with the concept of Sophia. Originally the saying was "Father, Son, and Mother." rather than "Father, Son, and Holy spirit." The male dominated Church took all references of divine feminine out of the religion.

Answer 11

WELLLLL......it like this, He GOD made the first female woman as a help mate and company for Adam, he made her with his almighty power just like he made everything else.
It goes along with what come first the chicken or the egg, wellllll.......it was the chicken...God made it and a mate also ......and there is some species that don't have to have a mate they have the ability to reproduce on it's own......for example Most snails and leeches use traumatic insemination. Both have male and female organs. So everything is not so cut and dried as most people wish.