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Did God Have a Wife?

Paralogic said:
That means their god was masturbating too. All males masturbate.

Interesting.
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That would be impossible to know or prove unless you were omnipotent. lol
 
Quag said:
Well he had a son. If no wife that means god had a kid outta wedlock and that is a no no according to bible, So I guess he had to be married.
Oh wait I forgot he had a son with Mary who was married to Joseph, so is god an adulterer?
The bible can be confusing, with what is/isnt a sin sometimes
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This would actually explain why God apparently had no problem with many of His trusted elite, such as David, having several mistresses and concubines.
 
Paralogic said:
It's a fact. All males masturbate.
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Would all males admit that they 'didn't masturbate' on a questionaire? I dunno. But it sure would be a momumental task to verify if every male on the planet masturbated in order to make it a fact.
 
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Moot said:
That would be impossible to know or prove unless you were omnipotent. lol
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gotta go with paralogic on this one
 
If god made man in his image, did god's wife then make woman in hers?
 
In Dever's book, Did God Have a Wife? he lays out a thesis. A thesis that basically says; in the culture of those people we today call the Jews, there were actually two schools of religious belief - they were 'folk religion' which covers the day to day practices of most people in a culture and "official" or "court" religion. As all of the scribes were followers of the "official" school, we must keep in mind the ancient axiom, "History is written by the winners".
 
According to Judaism the glory, light and presence of God made manifest was called the Shekinah, which is a feminine Hebrew word meaning dwelling or settling. It was a representation of the Divines incorporeality.
 
If so, I'd imagine she'd have a few questions about the "Mary" incident.
 
this kind of claims are against the unity of god.
 
Did God have a wife? . . .

No: he was already immaculate.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Explain. If god is married, isn't that a unity?
or did you mean against monotheism?
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yes it is against monotheism ,ditto

especially when we know judaism is the first religion that claims the unity of god
 
Medusa said:
yes it is against monotheism ,ditto

especially when we know judaism is the first religion that claims the unity of god
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The Egyptian Pharoh, Akhenaten was the first to introduce the idea of a monotheism religion and it is speculated that Judaism found it's beginning from that. Which might help explain Jewish mystism aka the Kabalah.
 
Moot said:
The Egyptian Pharoh, Akhenaten was the first to introduce the idea of a monotheism religion and it is speculated that Judaism found it's beginning from that. Which might help explain Jewish mystism aka the Kabalah.
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I know its historical story ,but formally judaism is regarded as teh first one.
 
Medusa said:
I know its historical story ,but formally judaism is regarded as teh first one.
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Why not give credit where credit is due?
 
Moot said:
Why not give credit where credit is due?
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akhenaton has no book claiming a god :)

but some researchers and historians claim this.
 
God didn't and doesn't have a wife. In Christianity the church is called the "bride of Christ" which is about as close as you can get to thinking that God has one. And even then it's not a literal bride. The Bible specifically says that there is no marriage in heaven either.
 
Medusa said:
akhenaton has no book claiming a god :)

but some researchers and historians claim this.
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"The giver of all life and creator of the universe?" The Egyptians may not have had "books" in Akenaton's time, but that isn't to say that they didn't write it down on papyrus.....or carve it in stone....

...Furthermore, the god's name came to be written within a cartouche, along with the titles normally given to a Pharaoh, another break with ancient tradition. Ra-Horus, more usually referred to as Ra-Horakhty (Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons), is a synthesis of two other gods, both of which are attested from very early on. During the Amarna period, this synthesis was seen as the invisible source of energy of the sun god, of which the visible manifestation was the Aten, the solar disk. Thus Ra-Horus-Aten was a development of old ideas which came gradually. The real change, as some see it, was the apparent abandonment of all other gods, especially Amun, and the debatable introduction of monotheism by Akhenaten.[5] The syncretism is readily apparent in the Great Hymn to the Aten in which Re-Herakhty, Shu and Aten are merged into the creator god.[6] Others see Akhenaten as a practitioner of an Aten monolatry,[7] as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods; he simply refrained from worshipping any but the Aten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten]Aten
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Check this out....

The full title of Akhenaten's god was The Rahorus who rejoices in the horizon, in his/her Name of the Light which is seen in the sun disc. (This is the title of the god as it appears on the numerous stelae which were placed to mark the boundaries of Akhenaten's new capital at Akhetaten, modern Amarna.) This lengthy name was often shortened to Ra-Horus-Aten or just Aten in many texts, but the god of Akhenaten raised to supremacy is considered a synthesis of very ancient gods viewed in a new and different way. The god is also considered to be both masculine and feminine simultaneously. All creation was thought to emanate from the god and to exist within the god. In particular, the god was not depicted in anthropomorphic (human) form, but as rays of light extending from the sun's disk....
Aten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The God, Aten was both male and female....man and wife.

Akenaten wrote a hymn to Aten and "some scholars have speculated that Psalm 104 may have been influenced by this hymn."

Great Hymn to the Aten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are many passages in Exodus that God told the Israelites to steal the Egyptians wealth. By wealth that could mean their sacred texts and religion as well as their tangible wealth.
 
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digsbe said:
God didn't and doesn't have a wife. In Christianity the church is called the "bride of Christ" which is about as close as you can get to thinking that God has one. And even then it's not a literal bride. The Bible specifically says that there is no marriage in heaven either.
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He just needs a good Yente.
 
If God had a wife, he probably created Eve for Adam, just to gain mens' sympathy.;)
 
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