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MrIndifference
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|  Posted 6/11/2005 2:54 PM (GMT -6) |   | | 2 Corinthians 4.4 states that Christ is the image of God. The question that I have is if we were made in the image of God, what do you think that says?
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1Heart
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| Posted 6/15/2005 1:50 AM (GMT -6) | | What I really love is that the image of God is both male and female--together, and that the image of God is not complete unless both are there. I am an ezer kenegdo (one who is called alongside to sustain--the Hebrew word for Eve when God created her). I am more than "hamburger helper!" That word is used twenty times in the OT, to refer to God when His help is desperately needed (i.e. "I lift my eyes up, unto the mountains; where does my help [ezer kenegdo] come from?"
Several years ago I would not have even considered that the Spirit of God has feminine qualities. Have any of you read a book put out by YWAM, called Why Not Women? It is amazing (and I'm only on the first chapter). It says that 2/3 of Bible believing Christians are women, and that part of the enemy's attack is to keep women from fulfilling their call as leaders, from using their gifts (all because of an "anatomical difference" . It also points out that keeping women from expressing their part of the image of God in leadership, is really an attack on men as well, an appeal to their pride by saying that women are not quite worth as much. And that it is an attack on the image of God.
If women could see they are an equal expression of the image of God, it would change the world, and perhaps their would not be such horrific abuse of women worldwide.
It blows me away that He would make us in His image--that we have that capacity to be like Him, to be transformed from one degree of glory to another, into the likeness of Christ.
I'd love to hear what others have to say here.
God bless,
Jo-Anne  (I hope those were Root Beers!)
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