Feminine Images for God: What Does the Bible Say?
Constance, I am so thrilled with this discovery! While I was aware of these ideas, and as you know, I love Lady Grace, “my Mama” the Holy Spirit, and openly refer to Her as She…I mean think about it…besides the overall biblical evidence that this is not only not heretical it is accurate, ask yourself the real question:
Why is referring to someone, God or created being, as She demeaning…diminishing? Hmmm?
What does that tell you about how being female is viewed in our culture, in our world?
Riiiiigggghhhht…now you begin to get a flavour for the kind of hostility I face daily and the reason why: I am leaving behind my assignment as a biological male and all its attenant power and privilege, and receiving fully the truth about how amazing and fearfully wonderful I am made as a woman in all aspects and facets except my body.
Listen: God is the source of gender, and thus Transcends it!
This article shows how wonderfully God reveals Themself female and thus affirms and sanctifies half the human race that has been attacked, demeaned, and ultimately under demonic assault in so many ways, ever since God told satan that the Deliverer would come from a woman, and that Deliverer would crush satan’s head.
Let your mind flex, and your heart open, and truth be a beacon comforting and stark.
Love, Charissa Grace
I just loved this:
“As we seek to follow biblical inclusivity, let us also affirm the consistent witness of the church, namely, that God is neither feminine nor masculine (gender), neither male nor female (sex). God, who is transcendent Spirit, possesses no physical body, yet accommodates to human limitations by using physical, relational, gender-laden images for self-disclosure.”
Mind flexed.
Heart opened.