Tag: Father and Mother

  • God The Mother: In The Creation Of Man

    God The Mother: In The Creation Of Man

    As I said before, God the Mother is testified in the creation of mankind too. Everything created on this earth was given to us to teach us the invisible qualities of God. We cannot see God and know God spiritually because God is invisible and imperceivable by human being who is physical.The bible says we cannot perceive the spiritual things with our physical senses.

    1 Corinthians 2:13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness,and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

    Spiritual things can be compared and understood only by spiritual things. That is why people who have only physical understanding through the physical senses thinks the words of God to be foolished because they are spiritually discerned.

    Spiritual Things Manifested in Creation of Man

    Then how can people who belongs to the physical realm grasp the spiritual world and things? The bible says all the created things were given to us so that we can understand the spiritual things in heaven.

    Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

    Created things on earth was given to us so that we can understand the invisible and spiritual things in heaven. Especially, among many created things mankind has a special meaning in creation. Mankind was created to teach us directly the invisible and divine nature of God. By studying the creation of man God intended to let us know about himself clearly. For this reason, if we want to know God, we must look at the creation of man. Now, let us find out the hidden and invisible nature of God through the creation of man.

    Man, a Copied Image of God

    Let us simply think about the copy manchine and how it works? For example, if a teacher made copies of his math test and by mistake he dropped a copy in a hallway. A student who passed by picked up the copy and looked at the content. What would he do? Will he say, “Oh, this is just a copy so it is not real,” and will he throw the copy away? Probably not. He would take that copy joyfully and feel happy for the luck. Why? Because a copy contains exactly the same as the original in everything such as passages, test questions, pictures and illustrations, graphs, etc.

    Man, who was created according to the image of God , has two different images: Male and Female. Then how many images of God can we expect to see?

    Man is working in that way. Even though we cannot see the original image of God, the bible says that mankind was given as copy to show the original and invisible image of God. Therefore, by looking at the creation of mankind actually we can see the original image of God. Let us find out if it is correct.

    Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

    Can we see God or perceive God? Then can we say why one God use the referent “us” and “our” to signify himself? Here confusion rises and people says, “Oh, this must be a misinterpretation.” However, before making a hasty judgement, we must think carefully about everything relevant to this. The very first thing we have to think about is if our idea of the singleness of God’s existence is true or not. What if God is plural and our belief that God is one is wrong? Who can surely say God is only one? Think about your neigbor who just moved in. You can see only a man in the house and no wife or children. Because of that can you surely say that he is single? Even on this physical thing about us, we cannot be sure. How then can we say we can be sure of spiritual and invisible things in heaven?

    Why does God again and again refer himself in a plural form? Even why does he say Elohim or Gods for 2500 times in the Old Testament to mention about himself? We do not know the reason. But luckily God gave something we can know to reveal his identity: Mankind. He used man as the copy of his image so that we can know the invisible image of God through the visible image of mankind.

    God as Male and Female

    To find out the image of God, let us look at the image of man which was created in accordance with the image of God.

    Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

    Mankind was created into two different images, that is, male and female. Through this copied image of man, we can easily guess the original image of God, right? Then what is the image of God reflected in the creation of man? They should be the same as the image of man. Therefore, we can conclude that the original image of God must be also male and female. After examining all these things, is there still a man who can say this is wrong? If he insists like that, it is as much as saying that he does not believe in the bible.

    According to the creation of man, God must exist as male and female just as man has two different images, male and female. And as Christians we already know the male image of God who gave his image to the first male Adam and we tend to call him “God the Father.” Then what should we call the female imagle of God whose existence can be understood in the creation of Eve? Should we not calle Her “God the Mother”?

    Conclusion

    I was intended to present evidences about God the Mother through the last several posts. And now the evidences are building up so that we cannot make any excuse about the existence of God the Mother. Quite often it is his own ideas about God which hinder us from understanding the truth of God. 2000 years ago Jews had one stereotyped idea that God cannot come as man in the flesh and because of their adherence to this notion they could not accept Jesus who came as Savior.

    It seems like people today have one such stereotype that God cannot be female. But just as Jesus was God who came as man whether they believed it or not, God can exist as female and we must call her God the Mother and accept her as our Savior.

  • Is God Only One, A Singular Image?

    Is God Only One, A Singular Image?

    Who is God?

    Many people who believe the words of God in the bible says that God is one and cannot be plural. Seemingly that seems to be true because through the bible we can find testimonies of God as one.

    Deuteronomy 6:4  Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

    1 Timothy 2:5  For there is one God.

    With these evidences of the bible they say that there is only one God and God is singular in nature.

    God as Gods in the Bible

    Surely there are some verses proving that God is one, but there are more evidences that we cannot deny that God is plural Gods. Originally the bible is written in the Hebrew language and in the Old Testament God is referred as Elohim or Gods in English. This Elohim is used 2,500 times in the bible and God is working together as Elohim from the Genesis to Revelations.

        Genesis 1:26  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…”

    And also the God who destroyed the Babel tower is also Elohim.

        Genesis 11:7  The Lord (God) said, “…..Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

    And also God is working as Elohim in choosing Isaiah as a prophet.

        Isaiah 6:8  Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

    In the creation, in the punishment of the people of Babel, and also in choosing a prophet, God is working together as Elohim (Gods), not as God. Therefore, God is plural, not singular.

    God in the Perspective of Jews

    Jews are the people who were given the knowledge in the beginning. And the Jews have known God as Elohim. To the Jews God was always plural, not singular. In the time of Moses while they were travelling in the desert, once Moses went up to Mountain Sinai to receive the stone tablets of Ten Commandments and stayed there for 40 days. Ar the moment Israelites thought he was dead in the mountain and they lost their leader. And they wanted to make the image of God who could lead them in front of them. The idol was made in the likeness of God who had led them out of Egypt.

        Exodus 32:4  He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning i with a tool. Then they said, “these are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

    They made an idol calf as their God and interestingly enough they call the singular calf as plural gods. Through this we can see to the Israelites God is one and also two. In other words God is singular and also plural. Let us take look at another example.

    While referring to the golden calf, singular and one, why did the Israelites cried out, “Look, these are your gods.” To the Israel people, God was always plural to them. That is why they recorded God as Elohim which means “Gods” in the correct form.

    In the times of kings after Solomon the second king of Israel, the kingdom was divided into two: South Juda and North Israel. At that time the Temple of God was in Jerusalem in South Juda and Jeroboam the king of North Israel got worried that his people might go up to Jerusalem to worship God and finally they might desert him by allying with the king of South Juda. Out of fear of betrayal he made idols and set them up one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

        1 Kings 12:28  After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

    He also recognized God as plural. These evidences tell us that the Israelites understood God as plural, not as singular. The God who led them out of Egypt was to them Elohim (Gods). To them God was always plural.

    God of Israel in the Perspective of Gentiles

    Even the Gentiles of Canaan understood the God of Israel as plural. When there was a war between the Jews and the Philistines, Jews brought the Ark of the Covenant to the battle field hoping to receive help of God and defeat the enemy. When the Ark was brought to the Israel camp, the Philistines got afraid because they knew God of Israel is with them.

        1 Samuel 4:5  When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came to the camp, all Israelites raised such a great shout that the ground shook. Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?” When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, the Philistines were afraid. “A god has come into the camp. …. Who will deliver us from the hands of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians….”

    Through the knowlege of God both the Jews and Gentiles had we can confirm that God was plural to them. The God who gave salvation and freedom to the Jews was actually Elohim Gods, not God.

    Elohim is the plural form of God which is used 2500 times in the bible. God who created heaven and earth is Elohim or Gods, God the Father and God the Mother.

    Conclusion

    Therefore Gods is working together as plural from the beginning to the end. The Elohim Gods are the ones who completes the salvation work at the last day by giving eternal life. That God Elohim is testified as the Spirit and the Bride (or God the Father and God the Mother).

        Revelation 22:17  The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let them who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

    The Spirit and the bride, the Elohim Gods fulfilled the prophecy by appearing as Christ Ahnsahnghong and the Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem.

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