Christianity believes that God became manifest in human form through Jesus. Is there any 'record' of anything like this in other faiths with their goddesses?
Is the Goddess REAL, or simply (and I'm not belittling Her here) a personification, a metaphor, an attempt at explaining the unexplainable, of connecting to the feminine aspect of the Divine?
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2007-05-31 06:00:25 · 12 answers · asked by Kellenor 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes Sophia is a recurrent female representation of the Godhead throughout history.
" ... Sophia as 'the Wisdom of God' (Chokhmah in Hebrew) appears in the Bible in the Book of Proverbs - in particular 8:22-31 in which the Sophia speaks as if an entity in her own right - as well as in the Psalms, the Apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon, other Wisdom literature and the New Testament. In Judaism the Sophia appears alongside the Shekinah, 'the Glory of God', a figure who plays a key role in the cosmology of the Kabbalists as an expression of the feminine aspect of God. Like the Gnostic Sophia, the Shekinah has a dual role as placed side by side with God while also exiled to the world of matter, the Malkuth. ..."
excerpted from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(gnosticism)
2007-05-31 06:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
She is as real as any other belief. God and Goddess are manifest through the High Priest and Priestess.
2007-05-31 07:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by humanrayc 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An attempt at explaining the unknown...What do you think the God/Jesus concept is? Except they left out the feminine. There are female characters but they're not very representative of the natural instinct to 'go forth and multiply'.
2007-05-31 06:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When God says "Thou shalt not have other gods before Me", Mom and I used to interpret that as meaning "Acknowledge God first, and then understand the other, lesser, but still important entities who are called gods and goddesses".
I truly believe they ARE out there.
Then also, God the Creator HAS to have a Feminine side -- S/He "birthed" all that came into existence.
2007-05-31 06:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by aattura 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I think that the Gods and Goddesses of all the world's religions are attempts by humans to make the unknowable "knowable", as opposed to being literal independent entities.
2007-05-31 06:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
If a goddess exists i have promised myself to grope her boobs(this isn't a joke). Actually the goddess of fertility/love/harvest can be found in every culture and of course mary is her avatar in the christian pantheon(truth and written here to piss christians).
BTW All hail Ishtar.
2007-05-31 06:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
As many answers, as many are views...
You need to ponder this one for yourself.
Mythology/ History of pre-Christian world speaks of many heathen Gods....
If you really want to learn more, research... look, try to find more... :-)
2007-05-31 08:44:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wishful thinking. No such thing as a goddess.
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2007-05-31 06:15:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
All gods and goddesses are fictional characters from religious mythology, as are demons and angels djinns and son on and so forth. Souls are also a fictional idea.
2007-05-31 06:04:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
there are Goddess in Greek mythology
2007-05-31 06:08:00 · answer #10 · answered by penelope c 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋