Post by theoccultchrist on Mar 29, 2007 5:18:20 GMT -5
A Goddess Figure In Judeo-Christianity
Supporting Scripture:
Genesis 1:26 (King James Version) KJV And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
(New Life Version)
Then God said, "Let Us make man like Us and let him be head over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that moves on the ground."
(New American Standard Bible)
Then God said, "Let (A)Us make (B)man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them (C)rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
(New Living Translation)
Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life--the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals."
So Who is "GOD" refering to when 'he' says "Our?"
Well.... we've discussed various historical theories in my Heresy 101 haha (History 399 Early Christianity) class..that I honestly believe that mainstream christianity and their interpretations and venecular uses of words and symbolism in the OT is not entirely accurate.
If you Look at the Translations of just the first 2 books of genesis..you can see that in Genesis Chapter 1 the word that refers to God is infact elohim which is PLURAL...and not only PLURAL But in a feminine context....and in Chapter 2 that is when the word YAHWHY in reference to god shows up..and also if you pay really close attention you can see there are actually 2 creation stories in genesis 1 and genesis 2
THE CHRISTIAN GODDESS
There are several female Deities that can lay claim to the title Christian goddess. Mary, the Mother of Jesus/Yeshua, first comes to mind. There is Mary Magdalene the "Goddess in the Gospels" the Church refused to acknowledge as the wife of Yeshua and probably co-Messiah. "Mary" is a Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew name Miriam or Miriamne. There are many theories about this name, such as Mary might not even be a name, but a title meaning Priestess of Goddess.
Many theologians and scholars believe the Holy Spirit written as, Pneuma in Greek everytime it appears in the New Testament, is a feminine being. Note that Pneuma is a neuter word in Greek, but in Hebrew the word Ruah (Spirit) and in Aramaic the word Shekinah (Presence) are feminine words and imply a feminine divine presence.
The Holy Spirit is possibly a Christian Goddess, not a mysterious invisible member of an all-male Trinity "club." Or more provocatively, maybe there is a Feminine Trinity of God-the-Mother (Sophia and Mary?), God-the-Daughter (Mary Magdalene) and Goddess-the-Spirit-Presence (Shekinah, Ruah). The Holy Spirit appears at Yeshua's baptism in the form of a dove. The dove has long been a symbol of the Goddess in the Ancient Near East, and was never used to symbolize any male Being or God.
We must also look in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, and consider the Goddess Sophia. Her name means "Wisdom." She is the Goddess of Wisdom referred to repeatedly in scripture as the wife of God-the-Father. See Proverbs, Song of Songs, (also called Song of Solomon) in the Hebrew Bible, and see the Book of Sirach and the Book of Wisdom in the Apocrypha found in the center of any Catholic Bible.
GOD-THE-FATHER HAS A WIFE
The Lord's Prayer, often called the "Our Father, " only addresses the masculine side of Divinity. It is a prayer to Yahweh, the Jewish and Christian Father-God. But what many have forgotten, or refuse to admit, is that Yahweh had a wife. Asherah, the Shekinah, was originally worshipped right alongside her lover/husband Yahweh, or El, as He is also called in ancient writings. You've probably noticed His name in names like Mi-cha-EL, Gab-ri-EL, Rach-EL, which mean respectively, "Who is like God?", "Power of God, " and "Fair One of God."
In Genesis, God the Father turns to some companion, we are never told whom, and says, "Let us make man after our own image." Jewish mystics and scholars of the Kabbalah have pointed out the obvious: Yahweh is talking to His wife. Even more intriguing: many researchers say it is She that is speaking to Him. The Hebrew word used for "God" in Genesis is Elohim, the plural of Eloah, a feminine title for the Goddess. Eloah (sometimes spelled Elat) is the female "half" of El. This Hebrew Goddess in Genesis is Asherah, the Shekinah, the Lady, speaking with Her mate. They agree to create, and so here we are. Perhaps a little sex magic is used in their grand creation project, who knows? It would be logical for the Divine to have intimate physical relations, since they made us such wonderfully sexual beings.
We should never feel ashamed of, nor try to suppress, our sexual natures. When two people, committed to each other and to Goddess & God, join in sexual communion they are actually performing an honoring, a ceremony of worship toward the Divine Couple. They are the great original Masculine and Feminine.
They wish to channel into, and through men and women of their creation. You and your partner might try channeling the Lady and Lord the next time you are intimate.
Many ancient religions, including the Greeks, believed that heaven is a male God who "covers" the feminine earth, Gaia in an intimate embrace. The earth, thus regularly impregnated, bears fruit. Great symbolism, there. It's sexual again-----but we can handle it!
(Source: www.northernway.org/goddess.html)
***My Own Personal Conjecture.***
So I believe there to be a Christian Goddess along side the Christian God. in addition to the great teacher, philosopher, and healer in Jesus Christ (Yeshua) and I also see the Holy Spirit in a feminine essence and as Sophia the Gnostic And Old Jewish Goddess of Wisdom.
and I see these Divine Figures as parts of the Universal Whole...The Universal Divine Energies that encompass everything and all..and is comprised of every deity that ever existed, still exists, or will soon exist. Including Christian Deities, Pagan Deities, Muslim Deities, Jewish Deities, Ect. and so forth. ***
Supporting Scripture:
Genesis 1:26 (King James Version) KJV And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
(New Life Version)
Then God said, "Let Us make man like Us and let him be head over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that moves on the ground."
(New American Standard Bible)
Then God said, "Let (A)Us make (B)man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them (C)rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
(New Living Translation)
Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life--the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals."
So Who is "GOD" refering to when 'he' says "Our?"
Well.... we've discussed various historical theories in my Heresy 101 haha (History 399 Early Christianity) class..that I honestly believe that mainstream christianity and their interpretations and venecular uses of words and symbolism in the OT is not entirely accurate.
If you Look at the Translations of just the first 2 books of genesis..you can see that in Genesis Chapter 1 the word that refers to God is infact elohim which is PLURAL...and not only PLURAL But in a feminine context....and in Chapter 2 that is when the word YAHWHY in reference to god shows up..and also if you pay really close attention you can see there are actually 2 creation stories in genesis 1 and genesis 2
THE CHRISTIAN GODDESS
There are several female Deities that can lay claim to the title Christian goddess. Mary, the Mother of Jesus/Yeshua, first comes to mind. There is Mary Magdalene the "Goddess in the Gospels" the Church refused to acknowledge as the wife of Yeshua and probably co-Messiah. "Mary" is a Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew name Miriam or Miriamne. There are many theories about this name, such as Mary might not even be a name, but a title meaning Priestess of Goddess.
Many theologians and scholars believe the Holy Spirit written as, Pneuma in Greek everytime it appears in the New Testament, is a feminine being. Note that Pneuma is a neuter word in Greek, but in Hebrew the word Ruah (Spirit) and in Aramaic the word Shekinah (Presence) are feminine words and imply a feminine divine presence.
The Holy Spirit is possibly a Christian Goddess, not a mysterious invisible member of an all-male Trinity "club." Or more provocatively, maybe there is a Feminine Trinity of God-the-Mother (Sophia and Mary?), God-the-Daughter (Mary Magdalene) and Goddess-the-Spirit-Presence (Shekinah, Ruah). The Holy Spirit appears at Yeshua's baptism in the form of a dove. The dove has long been a symbol of the Goddess in the Ancient Near East, and was never used to symbolize any male Being or God.
We must also look in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, and consider the Goddess Sophia. Her name means "Wisdom." She is the Goddess of Wisdom referred to repeatedly in scripture as the wife of God-the-Father. See Proverbs, Song of Songs, (also called Song of Solomon) in the Hebrew Bible, and see the Book of Sirach and the Book of Wisdom in the Apocrypha found in the center of any Catholic Bible.
GOD-THE-FATHER HAS A WIFE
The Lord's Prayer, often called the "Our Father, " only addresses the masculine side of Divinity. It is a prayer to Yahweh, the Jewish and Christian Father-God. But what many have forgotten, or refuse to admit, is that Yahweh had a wife. Asherah, the Shekinah, was originally worshipped right alongside her lover/husband Yahweh, or El, as He is also called in ancient writings. You've probably noticed His name in names like Mi-cha-EL, Gab-ri-EL, Rach-EL, which mean respectively, "Who is like God?", "Power of God, " and "Fair One of God."
In Genesis, God the Father turns to some companion, we are never told whom, and says, "Let us make man after our own image." Jewish mystics and scholars of the Kabbalah have pointed out the obvious: Yahweh is talking to His wife. Even more intriguing: many researchers say it is She that is speaking to Him. The Hebrew word used for "God" in Genesis is Elohim, the plural of Eloah, a feminine title for the Goddess. Eloah (sometimes spelled Elat) is the female "half" of El. This Hebrew Goddess in Genesis is Asherah, the Shekinah, the Lady, speaking with Her mate. They agree to create, and so here we are. Perhaps a little sex magic is used in their grand creation project, who knows? It would be logical for the Divine to have intimate physical relations, since they made us such wonderfully sexual beings.
We should never feel ashamed of, nor try to suppress, our sexual natures. When two people, committed to each other and to Goddess & God, join in sexual communion they are actually performing an honoring, a ceremony of worship toward the Divine Couple. They are the great original Masculine and Feminine.
They wish to channel into, and through men and women of their creation. You and your partner might try channeling the Lady and Lord the next time you are intimate.
Many ancient religions, including the Greeks, believed that heaven is a male God who "covers" the feminine earth, Gaia in an intimate embrace. The earth, thus regularly impregnated, bears fruit. Great symbolism, there. It's sexual again-----but we can handle it!
(Source: www.northernway.org/goddess.html)
***My Own Personal Conjecture.***
So I believe there to be a Christian Goddess along side the Christian God. in addition to the great teacher, philosopher, and healer in Jesus Christ (Yeshua) and I also see the Holy Spirit in a feminine essence and as Sophia the Gnostic And Old Jewish Goddess of Wisdom.
and I see these Divine Figures as parts of the Universal Whole...The Universal Divine Energies that encompass everything and all..and is comprised of every deity that ever existed, still exists, or will soon exist. Including Christian Deities, Pagan Deities, Muslim Deities, Jewish Deities, Ect. and so forth. ***
