if God is of no specific gender,how come Adam was supposedly created in His likeness?

Question

yes but mel your daughter is obviously FEMALE...don't mean to be rude but there's a difference!

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is ONE example where so many people have said that God is no specific gender

Answer 1

God has no physical features and no gender. When he created Adam- he gave him a soul- and the soul is what is in the likeness of God. The physical package around the soul is merely a container in which the soul is carried while in this world.

And the likeness of God refers to free will- something that no other creation of God possess'

Answer 2

Though God is a 'Male' figure. When the bible says Adam was created in the likeness of God, I found it interesting that the passage said "Let US make man is OUR own image." This makes me think that Adams was like God in that he was Tri-une. Meaning made up of 3 parts. Adam was Body, Soul, and Spirit. As God was Father, Son, and Spirit. A trinity likeness.

Hope I helped!
-Alex

Answer 3

"Likeness" does not mean, "look-like", but "one-with". Adam represents the active part of the Sonship; Eve represents the intuitive, the sensitive aspect.

The story is a metaphor. It teaches of the point wherein God's Son (us) began to form his own world, becoming physical after existing in a non-physical expression of what we think of as the world.

"Gender" is simply an aspect of our vast personality gestalt.

Answer 4

God is male, specifically. That is why he is portrayed as the "Father". Adam was created in his likeness, because they are both male. The female gender was not created until God saw that Adam was lonely and needed company.

Answer 5

John 17:3,5,24; Col.1:15-17; Rev.3:14;
Jesus is first of all creations, created in the image of God. Job 38:4-7; Heavens inhabited by angels called morning stars and sons of God, they do not die, they see ages old earth Gen.6:2,4; Jude 6; 1Pet.3:18-20; 2Pet.2:4;
Angels take spouses from mankind, they are male as Father to Jesus is Father to us, and God of Jesus is God to us all John 20:17; All are male.
[ Gen.1:1,2; Job 38:30-32 ]; prepared ages Gen.1:3-25;
and time and seasons for plant life is day for man [ as Noah in ark 375 days ].
Gen.1:26;
God said,"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Adam lived 930 years to die in the day he sinned, 70 years short of 1000 years and Jared lived 962, Methusaleh 969 and Noah 950, by Moses Gen.6:3; 120
at 897 after flood. Psm.90:10; David 1373 after flood and 1037 BCE in old age at age 70 and death.

Man is LOST from Eden with the promise of SALVATION 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Heb.9:27;

Answer 6

Adam was created in His metal likeness not His physical. He was given the ability to think and make choices.

Answer 7

Adam was created in the image of God so as he could choose to obey or disobey, could make his choices freely..

Answer 8

adam was not created in his likeness but god created adam and blow him with a part of his spirit.
that spirit when it's gone the person dies
and for scientists the spirit is a BIG questionmark for them that they can't figure out

Answer 9

Because the men that wrote the Bible created God in their own image and likeness so God could createman in God's own image and likeness.

Answer 10

Because God does have a gender.He is transgendered.He use to be a woman but got a sex change and now he is a man.He created man in his likeness because he was lonely and wanted a lover.But Adam rejected him and so God made a woman.He knew how to make a woman since he use to be one.