My questions:
- Does it take BOTH man and woman together in a one-flesh union to display the likeness of God?
- Yes a man and a woman separately are image-bearers of God, but is that made more full in the one-flesh union?
- Is it drifting too far into speculation to say that God has masculine and feminine attributes?
- The one-flesh union is a picture of Christ and His church yes, but does that one-flesh union also extend to the union of the members of the Godhead in fellowship?
- is it right to say that Adam and Eve displayed the likeness of the Triune Godhead?
These questions for the most part are just me trying to ask the same thing in different ways.
I need a little help thinking through these ideas. I have been tasked with a study on Anthropology and my tires are spinning a little in these matters looking at Genesis 1:26,27 and 2:18-24.
I am not finding much to answer these questions in my regular commentaries on these verses and the most help I could find was this article from the Moody Church (I also don't know how reliable the moody church is) I found this had some helpful insight, however, I am still unsure how exegetically sound it is to say "the woman displays God's feminine attributes"
God's feminine attributes, The Moody Church.
Articles or commentaries on the subject would be helpful.
Regards, Little brother B.
- Does it take BOTH man and woman together in a one-flesh union to display the likeness of God?
- Yes a man and a woman separately are image-bearers of God, but is that made more full in the one-flesh union?
- Is it drifting too far into speculation to say that God has masculine and feminine attributes?
- The one-flesh union is a picture of Christ and His church yes, but does that one-flesh union also extend to the union of the members of the Godhead in fellowship?
- is it right to say that Adam and Eve displayed the likeness of the Triune Godhead?
These questions for the most part are just me trying to ask the same thing in different ways.
I need a little help thinking through these ideas. I have been tasked with a study on Anthropology and my tires are spinning a little in these matters looking at Genesis 1:26,27 and 2:18-24.
I am not finding much to answer these questions in my regular commentaries on these verses and the most help I could find was this article from the Moody Church (I also don't know how reliable the moody church is) I found this had some helpful insight, however, I am still unsure how exegetically sound it is to say "the woman displays God's feminine attributes"
God's feminine attributes, The Moody Church.
Articles or commentaries on the subject would be helpful.
Regards, Little brother B.