That is no New Age empowerment affirmation, nor is it heresy. It is a fact of creation according to the KJV Bible.
I know, I know, Genesis 1:27 and 2:7 clearly indicate that man was the first of creation, but is it possible God engaged in a creative act before he looked out on the void? Scripture suggests the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
Let me back up a bit and lay a little foundation. We pray, Your will be done in earth (man) as it is in Heaven (God). And the Bible says, “male and female created he them.” Most of us have been taught we are created and purposed to be a mirror reflection of God and our lives a mirror reflection of Kingdom government. Am I right about it? If there is no female Divinity, no Goddess who were we women created and purposed to reflect?
The attempted assignation and enforced obscurity of the Goddess in Christianity had/has nothing to do with either the letter or the spirit of the Holy Scriptures. It was/is a crime of intention, rooted in a misogynist lust for power. In other words, it’s political. The traditional party line is, women were subjugated to men after the fall because we are dirty, devious creatures, who are without power or purpose beyond propagation. Could God have had a different reason?
A man’s power is limited by nature and purpose to title. What I mean is it comes with inherent labels like husband and father or provision based titles like doctor, accountant. A woman’s power, on the other hand, is limitless. It requires no label or action; her power is her presence, her influence. Think about it. When the bay-bays are showin out, if dad handles it, he has to speak, give voice to his authority, but mom needs do nothing more than walk in the room and look. Am I right about it? That being said, could it be possible that God simply could not allow raw power to be unharnessed in a world sans fellowship with him?
Read Proverbs 8:22 -30; they clearly predate Genesis 1. Pay particular attention to verse 25; it would appear Wisdom came from God as woman came from man.
Proverb:8:22: The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Proverb:8:23: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Proverb:8:24: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Proverb:8:25: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Proverb:8:26: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Proverb:8:27: When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Proverb:8:28: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Proverb:8:29: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Proverb:8:30: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
We were not, are not, the after thought of creation. We are God’s first, final and every thought. Woman is the beginning and end of God’s creative action. Just Sayin
AWOMEN,AWOMEN,AWOMEN. Bless you my BELOVED SISTER, for ALL your AH- HA MOMENTS !!!!! You aer truely a Blessing !!!!!
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 5:38PM
Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
Give God/dess the glory. I just work here ya'll, and glad tobeof service. I can't wait Min. B
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 6:41PM
Michelle Diane
Michelle I hear your argument, believe me. But, man AND woman being created in the image of God means that we are created like God meaning we are spirit, we are soul and we body. Hebrews 4:12- (KJV) "For the word of God is quick , and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of SOUL and SPIRIT, and of the JOINTS and MARROW, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Soul and spirit, joints and marrow(body). Just like God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Let me explain. The Father God is Spirit, He became flesh in His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit is the soul (thoughts) of God. Read 1 Corinthians 2:11- (NIV) "For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God." So you see man (male and female) are created in the image of God. There is no female divinity or goddess.
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 7:31PM
Mikala Lyles
ok.michelle, what do you have to say about Mikala's interpretation?
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 8:25PM
Marta Fernandez
My Sister Mikala Lyles............ I can feel the Power of the Anointing of the Blessed Holy Spirit of our Father God in your WORDS !!! I can feel your Revelation!!!... Move forward my Sister, it so good to see you! Minister Thomas Minister E. L. Thomas
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 8:29PM
Minister E. L. Thomas
Who told you that, baby? In the Hebrew the word for image is tselem (tseh’-lem) it means essential nature and refers to human nature in its internal and external characteristics. I found that in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. Can you and I agree Strong’s is the accepted standard?
The Bible says, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth,” (2 Timothy 2:15) Lets start there because you clearly haven’t done that, nor have you sought God concerning the questions I posed. How do I know? The primary clue is that your Scripture quotes are out of context, therefore reactionary and completely inapplicable to the subject matter.
So, let’s back this up a couple paces and get an understanding. Because Constantine and every European ruler/government since has chosen to obliterate, denigrate and plain prostitute the Goddess does not mean that she doesn’t exist. Conversely, because I quote Scripture and draw logical conclusions that suggest the Goddess has always existed doesn’t mean that I’m right. The responsibility is yours; what I say, what any minister says, even if it’s in the moment revelation word, is second hand knowledge. Jesus, himself admonished us saying, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things (your every need met) “shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33) If you want the second part, baby, you’ve gotta do your own seeking. Seeking in the Word, seeking in the wisdom and experiences of those whose perspective differ from your own and seeking on your face, the seeking part is all on you.
Now, don’t get it twisted. I’m am acutely aware that I am held accountable for every idle word I utter, and I’m clear on the penalty for causing a saint to stumble. I don’t know all the truth, but I am responsible for and to every iota of truth I know. And baby, the truth I know above all else is to let God be true and every man a liar; every man includes me. I am stretching and growing and being changed from glory to glory. But I ain’t no dove seller and when I speak, baby, when I ask, I’m not talking to or looking for answers from itching ears.
The Bible says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” (Acts 2:17) And moreover admonishes us, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5) And that brings us back to 2 Timothy. It’s a poor ambassador that doesn’t know the mind of the government she represents. I could be wrong, but I think God intends for us to know the mind of Christ.
I want you to know tonight, female divinity DOES exist, whether the Goddess’s existence in Scripture is refutable or not. Young woman, young women, the Psalmist said, “Ye are gods,”, the spark in you, that is your life, is the breath of God. (Genesis 2:7) You, my sisters, my daughters and yes, my brothers too, you are divine. Baby, go look in the mirror; you’ll the find the goddess there. She is you.
Minister Thomas feel what revelation? Mikala hung a few overworked Scriptures together, didn't even take enough time to make sure they addressed the subject at hand and called it a Godly answer. Now, you're calling it revelation word? Are you serious or just talking to itching ears?
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 9:47PM
Michelle Diane
See this is what I'm talking about !!!! Please do your homework well, very well . I didn't even have to glorify a comment or reaction here,because my number one Chief and Commander handeled this very well and correctly. You're welcome to join God/desses Blessing God/desses, so that you can further your education in the knowledge of God/dess.
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 9:54PM
Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
WOW! Bravo!!!!!! To have someone finally tell another that the use of scripture in and of itself does not make them right is amazing. No matter what the next comment my say I'm impressed with the level of point and counterpoint going on. And if we all can't resolve that we all are hear to seek and obtain knowledge and find what we have lost. What's the point of going to church, temple or any other name you call you Saturday or Sunday morning worship?
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 10:01PM
GREGORY GULLEY
Wow is right, somebody needs to read why I’m concerned about Black America. You know O.R. (Organized Religion) likes to tell you that they have a claim on truth much like the Sadducees’ and the Pharisees told the people and Yeshua. Then they have this, “Touch Not a Prophet of YHVH”, attitude all the while sitting back and smiling saying that they love you. When the truth is that, they do not really know the Mind of YHVH.
Truth, when it is used, has to be used in its’ entirely. You heard the saying…”a little truth goes a long way”, well let me be the first to tell you that a little truth, no matter how well said, always leads to a lie. That was the problem then and it still is today, and it oozes out of our very pores and permeates the very fabric of our society.
You feel her revelation??? Well YHVH’s revealed knowledge is not felt it is known. Known in the inside from direct communion with and through YHVH, it is seen from being in direct contact with YHVH. You see, Yeshua said… the things I do, I do because I’ve seen my Father do. Can you say that?
Stop eating milk and grown up, man should not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of YHVH, stop limiting yourself to just the Bible, YHVH TRUTH has been printed in other manuals too, and if you’re not grown up enough you will miss the Whole TRUTH and as we know a half truth always leads to a lie.
Na na, (Noble Warrior) In my Master’s Service
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 10:51PM
Neighborhood Computer Hero
Baby, repetition does not validate your position; it only underscores your impatience for serious study. I have no desire to engage with you in vain debate.
Sunday, September 14th 2008 at 6:58PM
Michelle Diane
Your comment suggest that you DID not take your suggestion of the wait and see approach before you decided to condemn and judge. Is that not what your teachings ask you Not to Do ??? While many of you have quoted the bible here, your beliefs and covictions are Yours. My suggestion would be at this point,for you to read Vanest's Blog on "Someone informed me that GOD/DESS is related to witchcraft-some kind of ritual", and perhaps it may bring some clarity on where we stand. Not once will we condemn or judge anyones belief and never will. Let us also remember who had hands in the writings of the bible, which was a stolen legacy from US. A little his-story in this area would be also a good idea in the process of developing an OPEN MIND. To close it stunts ones growth, spiritually and religiously. It's great that we have different opinions, that's what this forum is about. A change is taking place, Which can and is a VERY good thing.(WE have become all to familiar on the way it has been and has been going) Thank GOD/DESS,or GOD, whichever you perfer for THAT change .It's a reality thats going to happen with or without our mere opinions. Again ....MUCH PEACE as ALWAYS, BELOVEDS. Doc
Monday, September 15th 2008 at 1:09PM
Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
PSS. THIS is NOTa preaching of a GOSPEL, (BIG, very BIG Difference )!!!!!!
Monday, September 15th 2008 at 1:13PM
Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
A serpant more cunning...? but most of you think of a snake... but in nature today is a snake the most cunning natural hunter on the planet? No MANKIND is... so ponder if you will if Eve was convince by another HUMANBEING.... you associate a reptile as the serpeant but the most cunning animal ever created was mankind, and we have FREEWILL to choose whatever we like... ANGELS DO NOT HAVE FREEWILL hence the fall....
Just step back and consider this serpant you speak of was in fact human... may immediately eliminate 90 percents of the worlds fear of snakes... Just a comment...
Monday, September 15th 2008 at 1:24PM
GREGORY GULLEY
Gregory Take a look at what God did with the snake. He cursed the snake, Genesis 3:14- "So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the WILD ANIMALS! You will CRAWL on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life." THEN, He cursed mankind!!! The serpent was not another person. The reason why we refer to people as snakes or serpents today when they act a certain way. Is because they are acting like the devil who tempted Eve. It is only a metaphor.
FELICIA You speak with great wisdom!!! Thanks for your input. It seems there are only a few on this blog who truly believe in the Word of God. I wonder if any will truly SELAH on the Word you have quoted???
Monday, September 15th 2008 at 2:31PM
Mikala Lyles
"The reference to Proverbs 8 is a total misrepresentation of the scripture. This passage refers to the attainment of WISDOM and assigns feminine characteristics to wisdom as a means of alluding to the desirability of attaining WISDOM. It, in no way, identifies or assigns these characteristics to an actual person, let alone to a “goddess”."
I wonder why you consider what I have to say a perversion of the Gospel? Is it not even remotely possible that the Gospel was perverted as far back as Nicene, and for political not spiritual purposes?
I think it is narrow and dangerous to label something heresy based on opinion. And like Milika, while your references are lengthy, they are generally unrelated to the topic at hand. Therefore it would be safe to assume your speaking in defensive of traditionalist teaching without a precept to stand on.
"Therefore, I would caution all who are reading here, that we play a dangerous game when we seek for wisdom outside of the Word of God and relationship with Jesus Christ our Saviour."
Everything said was taken correctly from the King James. False accusations only weaken your position. Seems to me your grasping at straws; you might consider actually studing it out.
The thing I wonder most about you party line preachers especially you females, is what do you find so offensive and frightening about the concept that the female shares equal divinity with the male? Or was the Psalmist commiting heresy too when he said, "know ye not that ye are gods?"
If only we would speak of the “Good News” as Yeshua taught. “The Gospel”, as taught by Yeshua, IS “The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven”, oh my bad it was being discussed; “as above, so below” or if you prefer “on Earth as it is in Heaven”. Why would YHVH who created all “things” and then tell them to go out and reproduce after its own kind, not expect “Man/Woman” to do the same? After all didn’t it say in the BIBLE, Genesis 1:26-28; 26 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. 27 So God created man in his OWN image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them,… (italics’ and bolding mine) YHVH didn’t.
Can man reproduce in the flesh without woman? The answer is no. So what would make you believe that man, without woman, can reproduce in the spirit without her? Why would you believe that we can take dominion over the created thing without our spirits being one with one another and with YHVH? It can’t even Yeshua said that he could do nothing without being in agreement with the Father. Must I take you into a word study with “agreement” for you can’t be in agreement with anyone without being “One” with what’s being done/created. Yes, I know you will come back and tell me that when YHVH said, “let US make man in OUR image” the bible was referring to the triune God-head of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that there was no God/dess involved in that creation process. But its hard for me to fathom “On Earth as it is in Heaven” in the birthing process if YHVH did not take YHVH/dess out of Himself as he took Eve out of Adam.
I have to go back to work so more will come….just something for you to thing about in the mean time….
Na Na In my Master’s Service Noble Warrior (or should I say Isis)
The God/dess is not a Gospel. She is a personality of Divinity. Her existance in no way alters the truth of Christ's birth, death, resurrection or current position seated on the right hand of God. In fact, the Goddess is typified in tradional Christian teaching. She is the church - the bride of Christ. I wish you'd asked that question before you started spitting venom.
The church is not a goddess. We are the BODY of Christ.
Friday, September 19th 2008 at 1:58PM
Mikala Lyles
One thing for sure, when they stole us and brought us here to America to be their slaves, we didn't have the bible in our hands, And knew NOTHING about JESUS Christ. It wasn't untill massa LET us read it ( with the promise that we Preach IT), so he could continue his white supremacy power,(over his wives and Slaves)that we came into christianity. We absorbed it and made it our own.And will die to defend it with the utmost loyalty like the rightous slave keeping the promise. We are the most poorest ,neediest people in America. Consider that it was based on the nature of the captors, Greed ! To us,when in Africa, Goddess WAS the church,Creator and highest form of living deity. She was Alpha, Omega, and she was WOMAN. And was worshiped!
Friday, September 19th 2008 at 11:37PM
Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
