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@secondson saidYou may leave...
Like divegeester for example. Just kidding. I'm waiting for him to show up here today so I can leave. 😂
@secondson saidYou may leave...
Like divegeester for example. Just kidding. I'm waiting for him to show up here today so I can leave. 😂
You don't think a quote that begins, 'God's purpose in creating man..' is relevant in a thread about why God created man/woman?!
@sonship saidWhere the quote was written was pretty irrelevant to me. It still addressed the topic of the thread.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
You don't think a quote that begins, 'God's purpose in creating man..' is relevant in a thread about why God created man/woman?!
I will take your question to me to mean that you thought on the subject of why God created man/woman it would be best discovered (as to a Living Stream Ministry book) in a book about What Is Regeneration?
Where the quote was written was pretty irrelevant to me. It still addressed the topic of the thread.
@sonship saidWhich, of course, doesn't explain in the slightest why God created Adam.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Where the quote was written was pretty irrelevant to me. It still addressed the topic of the thread.
To not get too far ahead of things, you might consider Genesis 2:18 - 25
Probably that is the clearest early indication as to why God created male and female.
The section starts with this -
"And Jehovah God said, It ...[text shortened]... taken." (v.23)
God created man/woman because it was not good that the man should be alone.
@sonship saidHere's a swift biology lesson; in order to make more people you need two types of people, a man and a woman. Adam may have struggled on his own.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Where the quote was written was pretty irrelevant to me. It still addressed the topic of the thread.
To not get too far ahead of things, you might consider Genesis 2:18 - 25
Probably that is the clearest early indication as to why God created male and female.
The section starts with this -
"And Jehovah God said, It ...[text shortened]... taken." (v.23)
God created man/woman because it was not good that the man should be alone.
@indonesia-phil saidYou'd think an omniscient deity would have known that.
Here's a swift biology lesson; in order to make more people you need two types of people, a man and a woman. Adam may have struggled on his own.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou're never too old to learn.
You'd think an omniscient deity would have known that.
Which, of course, doesn't explain in the slightest why God created Adam.
"This is the book of the generation of Adam. When God created Adam, He made him in the likeness of God.
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and called their name Adam, on the day they were created."
" And God said, Let Us make man in Our IMAGE, according to Our likeness, and let them have DOMINION over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
And God created man in His own IMAGE; in the IMAGE of God He created him; male and female He created them."
@sonship saidSo your god made Adam who was actually two people, (how does anyone know they were called Adam?) in his/her own image, so does your god look like a man or a woman?
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Which, of course, doesn't explain in the slightest why God created Adam.
The Bible can help you out there also. Remember that Adam is really the man and his wife - a couple. That is in chapter two and five.
Genesis 5:1,2
[quote] [b]"This is the book of the generation of Adam. When God created Adam, He made him in the like ...[text shortened]... se of exercising deputy authority to rule for God and have dominion on His behalf over His creation.
@sonship saidAnd yet at another time, not so long ago, you were insisting that the prescient and vengeful Christian God hangs burning non-believers/"sinners" out on chains supposedly in order to "glorify" himself. Presumably those humans were created for that purpose.
We were created to express and manifest God in some way.And we were created for the purpose of exercising deputy authority to rule for God and have dominion on His behalf over His creation.
So your god made Adam who was actually two people,
(how does anyone know they were called Adam?) in his/her own image, so does your god look like a man or a woman?
And was having dominion over his/her creation supposed to have included killing it off at every opportunity, do you suppose, or was this just faulty production?