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Continued Investigation of the Image of God according to the Holy Bible.

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More dialectal evidence for the male only assertion that man alone in the male gender is the only part of humanity that bares God's image in his body is contained in the Bible in the book of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 13:11.

Jeremiah 13:11 -

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me

for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

Without the need for expounding much context for this scripture, there is a divine analogy given in this text. God in his analogy symbolizes himself as “the loins of a man”, his covenant people as a girdle, and the relationship between these two entities to be the cleaving of the girdle to a man's loins in the wearing of this type of clothing.

God in the person of the Father without exception never characterizes himself symbolically in a physical manifestation in a way that is feminine whether that symbolism is enacted in a non gendered metaphorical form or in the particular appearance of his masculine image in which God made man. Though God in his prophetic words alludes to certain divine nurturing actions in alliterative form through feminine agencies, the alliteration equates those feminine agencies to the actions of God, but not to the person of God himself. (Mathew 23:37, Luke 13:34, & Deuteronomy 32:11) Note the distinction as it is pertinent.

          Also, concerning the non-gendered metaphorical forms contained in scripture in which God presents himself such as is the case of the divine fire on the bush before Moses or in the whirlwind before Job, the presentation of the beings form of existence is a metaphorical essence in visual form alluding to God's present functioning nature in the context of a substantive situation rather than the appearance of God's actual unchanging physical image which God has endowed men to posses from the beginning. One reasons this in that God exercises his divine prerogative of supreme authority through his omnipotence to clothe himself with majesty (Job 40:10) in whatsoever way God enacts. In the sum total of all this section wherein the symbolic nature of God is examined, it is seen then that the likeness of God's physical image must be without variance (Malachi 3:6), unequivocally masculine.

           

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