good afternoon ryan,
first of all, YES INDEED you can talk to Jesus and His Spirit within you as a mate or friend. marky mark started a thread called "my friends" in the general discussion section where he uses john 15:14-16 where Jesus is speaking to His disciples and He calls them/us His FRIEND. actually the whole chapter of john 15 is a great one to read through and meditate on.
also, as far as your thoughts of a mother figure more appealing than a father figure, in regards to how you think about God our Father, that could indeed be due to the fact that your mother figure in your physical life is much stronger than that of your earthly father's relationship to you. as ray has mentioned in his teachings, God has feminine within Him in is infinite wisdome, as reflected in His creation of woman and all the feminine characteristics. i am paraphrasing what ray said, but i will search through his essays/audios to find the exact statement. there may be others on the forum who can find it or remember it ver batim.
anyway, my dear younger brother, you at such a young age (like astropho, and alex) have been blessed beyond your imagination with regards to the Truths God has chosen to reveal to you through HIS Spirit. if you continue to read through ray's teachings on the website and look at the scriptures which He uses to back every thing he teaches about the Truth of the Gospel, you will come to the realization that God is making you into His image and the image of our Elder Brother Jesus Christ. prayer and the Holy Scriptures are our Lifeline towards His will for each one of us, and although God seems so far away at times, it is because our carnal brains cannot comprehend how close He really is to us. ryan, it is confirmed through Jesus Christ Himself that He did not leave us as orphans in the storm (this worldly life), but when He ascended into the heavenlies He left us His Spirit, and this Spirit abides within you ryan. how close is that!? believe it and grow in your faith that He will never leave you. pray to Him asking and petitioning and giving thanks for all things that pertain to your life. God desires to hear your prayers. and yes, it is always and only His will that will be done, but He still wants a relationship with you and that includes communication, talking to His as your Friend.
stay strong in your stand ryan.
claudia
Hi Claudia.
I think this may be what you are refering to concerning Rays writings on the feminine side of God.
http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3720.0.htmlAdam and Eve
God introduces something that I think we read over.
In resent years I’m starting to pay attention to the words, those words are in there for a reason, ok.
Gen 1:26 “And God said, Let Us make man [humanity] in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
Gen 1:27 And God created man in His [Own] image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.”
In the Hebrew Interlinear, reading from right to left:
“And He is creating, Elohim, the human in the image of Him, in the image of Elohim He creates him, male and female He creates them.”
And now from the Concordant Version:
“And creating is the Alueim [God] humanity in His Image. In the Image of the Alueim [God] He creates it. Male and female He creates them.”
Did you get that? God is creating man in OUR image.
Clearly the point is made that creating mankind in the image of God is in the indefinite tense [past/present/future] and not in the pasted tense as in the King James and most bibles. This creation continues.
God wants children in HIS VERY OWN IMAGE. This is God’s plan. This is God’s purpose. This is the reason for the creation of humanity. This is “The WILL of the Father.”
Old Testament: “And creating is God humanity IN HIS IMAGE. In the image of the God He creates it. Male and female He creates them.” (Gen. 1:27)
New Testament: “ For whom He [the Father] did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be [complete is yet future] COFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29).
Look there are two things here. God creates man in His own image, ok. “In the image of God creates He him, male and female creates He them.” So man is created in the image of God, right. But did you catch it? The female is created in the image of God. Did you miss that? The female is created in the image of God, therefore God is female. But we call Him ‘Him,’ so He’s male too. HE’S BOTH.
It doesn’t say God is evil, He has a knowledge of good and evil. But He is good.
But when it comes to male and female, they are both equally in the image of God, or being made in the image of God, or in the image of God He’s making ‘them.’
It’s both ways. They’re being made into His image and He is making them in His image. You see that? You see how it’s repeated twice there.
“Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” So God created man in His image, “in the image of God.” The verse says “in the image of God created He them, Male and female,” see God created man in His image, but then in the image of God, “He created them male and female.” Female is in the image of God, God is female. God is male and female. Where did God ever get the idea for a female? Is this something that doesn’t exist in His being? Is this something foreign to God? Femininity is in God. That’s why He took that and made a representation of that, in the form of a woman. That’s God! Just as much as the man is God.
I think some of you women have felt slighted over the years, that God is not a woman. Well some religious groups refer to God as she, you know. God in His image He created a woman, yet the only way He could do that, is that woman was in God. And then He created out of that (from Himself), the woman.
I heard someone say El-Shaddai, El - being God, Shaddai - breath. El- Shaddai the God with breath or the breath of God.
So when we talk about the man and the woman now, we’re talking about in the image of God Himself, in both of them. Man is in the God’s image, so the woman is the feminine side of God, ok.
Peace...Mark
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