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[dreamer_easy]

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.)

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the Catholic Church is far from the only one with issues.

I seem to recall that there was a lot of controversy some years ago when someone suggested that "God the Father" of the Church of England could also be "God the Mother".

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the Catholic Church is far from the only one with issues.

oh lordy, don't i know it. i grew up in the bible belt, which is nothing if not a gigantic smorgasbord of religious issues.