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From: greg@zinfandel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Deific gender question - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 04:25:14 EDT
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zinfandel!greg    Aug  9 12:21:00 1984

Maybe we're looking at this backwards.  Maybe the Biblical view of God as
male isn't just man's projection of his own nature onto God.  Let's not
forget that when Jesus came to the earth, He came as a man.  "And [Jesus]
is... the exact representation of [God's] nature."  (Heb. 1:3)  He could have
come neuter, couldn't He?

Look again at the passage in Ephesians that describes the way husbands and
wives should relate.  (Paraphrased) Husbands should love their wives as Christ
loved the church.  Wives should submit to their husbands as the church should
submit to Christ.  "This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference
to *Christ and the church*."  (5:32) 

Maybe God created us with gender so that we could better understand His nature.
Maybe instead of "transcending" gender He fulfills it.

Well, we'll just have to wait and see...

"Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face."  (I Cor. 13:12)
Greg Boyd
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