Bibleman,Ray does teach that our Father is both male and female ,if that is what you are questioning .
Peace...Mark
Hey Mark can you enlighten me please?
Antaiwan
Hi Antaiwan,hope all is well my friend.Ray expounds a bit here on said subject.Hope this helps.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3691.0.htmlLook 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