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Originally Posted by 58thecat
What about the mother knowing?
Moms always know.
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You may actually have a good point. If that story was written in another time in another culture, the word mother may have been used. Many of the characteristics attributed to God in that book are feminine as well as masculine.
Nurture and wisdom are female characteristics.
In the near beginning of that book God said Let us make man (mankind) in
our likeness.
In those days the parent in charge of the family was usually male. Seems more respectful than calling God
it.
The book says that God created them male and female and blessed them and told them they have dominion over other creatures. He told them to subdue the earth but never told them they owned the earth and he never gave them dominion over each other.
It seems like owning the earth and having dominion over others is one of the big problems of the world that man has made.