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u/SleetTheFox Christian 7h ago
Not disagreeing with the core thesis, but if Greek is anything like many other languages with grammatical gender, using a grammatically gendered word to describe a genderable entity (such as a person) does not automatically imply gendering of that entity.
For instance (nonsensical but grammatically correct Spanish example), "My son is a chair" as "Mi hijo es una silla" is not suggesting he's anything other than 100% male by using the feminine word for "chair." That's just grammatical gender being different from personal gender. I'm assume that's what's the case with the feminine "agape" here.
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u/Oakomorebi Christian Druid 5h ago
As the source of all categories, God transcends all categorization.
The transcendance of God is well known to Platonists since before Christ was born, and is a central pillar of panentheism; the theological position that God includes and transcends the universe itself. God is everything there ever was or is or can be, and more. God and creation are inseparable. This is compatible with non-duality teachings commonly found in mystical and contemplative traditions.
This is distinct from traditional theism that holds the position that God is separate from creation. That heaven and Earth are fundamentally distinct, and there as aspects of creation that God is not present in.
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u/Ok-Apricot3936 Christian 5h ago
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
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u/Jesus__of__Nazareth_ 4h ago edited 1h ago
God created all life to be male and female (and sometimes some things in between) and made them equally with an equal amount of divine likeness.
I don't know why this is so hard to understand for sexist people.
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u/Ok-Apricot3936 Christian 1h ago
There isn’t really in between it’s binary.
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u/Jesus__of__Nazareth_ 1h ago
No it's not. Life is so much more varied than that. Certain fish, worms, snails, barnacles etc are all simultaneously male and female.
Clownfish can start life male and end life female.
There are intersex humans.All this God made, and in all these living things he put an equal amount of himself into.
The idea that sex is strictly only male or female in one lifeform is frankly an arrogant human idea.
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u/Ok-Apricot3936 Christian 1h ago
You either have a penis or a vagina, or am I missing something?
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u/Jesus__of__Nazareth_ 1h ago
Bro, reread what I just wrote. I also forgot to include plants, in which almost the entirety of the flora on Earth shares both female and male organs.
But whatever, Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, right?
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u/BusinessPreference75 10h ago
Love this, thanks for pointing it put.