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1.Introduce yourselves 2.What comes to mind when you think of God? 3.Which one is made in the image of God: males or females?

Is God Male? How Sexuality Affects Your View of God

What does it mean to be made in the image of God?

Gen 1:26 “Let us make mankind [a ‘dam] in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule… “ Proper name (Adam) Humanity

Genesis 5:1-2 When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” [A’dam] when they were created.

Genesis 2:7 “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground [a dam ‘ah] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

Genesis 2:20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for A’dam (proper name) no suitable helper was found.

Genesis 2:21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs [part of the man’s side] and then closed up the place with flesh.

Genesis 2:23 “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ [ish sha’] for she was taken out of man [iysh] ”

Genesis 2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man [iysh], that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.

[anthropos] human being [aner] Man/husband

[gyne] Woman/wife [aner] Man/husband

Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man [anthropos] did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Isaiah 63:16 you, Lord, are our Father [male pronoun used], our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit [ruach - female pronoun] of God was hovering over the waters.

John 16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate/Comforter [Paracletos - masculine] will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit [Pneuma - neuter] of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Gynecomorphisms

Gen. 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.

Deut. 32:18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Is. 49:15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”

Is. 66:13 As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.

Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion [womb] blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 22:9-10 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast. From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.

Psalm 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.

Psalm 123:2 …as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.

Matthew 13:33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

Luke 15:9 “And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’”

Matt. 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”

James 1:17-18 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

John 3:3 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.