timfost
Puritan Board Senior
Hi all,
I was at a Maryland zoo today and a gentleman and teenage boy approached me and asked if he could ask me a question. The teenager asked if I have heard about the "feminine image of God" or something along those lines. I said no so he started to explain it to me. He explained that for Adam and Eve to be made in God's image, there must be a mother deity or else we wouldn't have gotten Eve. He took me to Genesis 1 to show me that the plural is used when man was made in God's image ("let us make man in Our image..." v. 26).
I challenged the idea that a natural body cannot be made in the image of a Spiritual body in terms of physical appearance, since God is invisible. Rather, what is in view is being made like God in righteousness and holiness.
In speaking a little about the Trinity, it became clear that they are modalists. I said as much to them (the adult stepped in at this point) and disagreed that they were modalists. I asked if he knew what modalism was and he answered "no."
Anyway, I looked up their website (http://www.wmscog.com/). They have some weird beliefs. Their portion about "God the Mother" is borderline insanity (http://www.wmscog.com/heavenly-mother/god-the-mother/).
Has anyone heard of this group?
I was at a Maryland zoo today and a gentleman and teenage boy approached me and asked if he could ask me a question. The teenager asked if I have heard about the "feminine image of God" or something along those lines. I said no so he started to explain it to me. He explained that for Adam and Eve to be made in God's image, there must be a mother deity or else we wouldn't have gotten Eve. He took me to Genesis 1 to show me that the plural is used when man was made in God's image ("let us make man in Our image..." v. 26).
I challenged the idea that a natural body cannot be made in the image of a Spiritual body in terms of physical appearance, since God is invisible. Rather, what is in view is being made like God in righteousness and holiness.
In speaking a little about the Trinity, it became clear that they are modalists. I said as much to them (the adult stepped in at this point) and disagreed that they were modalists. I asked if he knew what modalism was and he answered "no."
Anyway, I looked up their website (http://www.wmscog.com/). They have some weird beliefs. Their portion about "God the Mother" is borderline insanity (http://www.wmscog.com/heavenly-mother/god-the-mother/).
Has anyone heard of this group?