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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2008-09-12 09:38 am

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In further Bible study news, I've only just clocked that in God's beautiful speech admonishing Job, He has both male and female characteristics:
Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?
(That's the NIV rendering of Job 38:28-30.)

(Those are amongst several images of God as creator and organiser of the cosmos - besides these biological ones, there are references to building, cutting irrigation channels, giving orders, looking after animals, pottery, textiles, and metalwork.)