Hello everyone!
Recently I was asked what are my favorite books
and I want to say that one of my favorite books is the bible
because I like reading all these texts and trying to understand
what people were trying to say.
After that I usually read some research or articles
I want to know what exactly all of this meant
because this book tremendously changed my life
and the lives of many nations and other people on earth.
So I'm curious how people could mistranslate something
or misunderstand a certain idea or concept
It's interesting that in the Judaic Torah and in the Christian bible
we always refer to God as a being that is a male.
So he's always either God the Father, or God the son
or God the Holy Spirit
this of course, if you believe in the concept of the holy trinity
or that God the Son and the Holy spirit are also the God.
But for a long time, when reading the first chapter of
the first book in the bible I still don't understand why we
always refer to god as a father – why not a mother?
Or someone without a sex or a gender?
So let's read the first chapter of the book of Genesis
which is in the old testament
26th and 27th verse.
"Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness…"
and then the 27th verse reads –
"So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them."
It sound a little weird cuz…
I don't know, it's poetry I guess..
It's confusing why he first says "him" and then "them"
But the most interesting part is that if we look
at the first words in these verses we can see that god said
"Create in our own image"
So, if we're thinking logically, both
male and female are created in the image of one being,
Even if we believe in the concept of holy trinity
still, both male and female were created in the image of God.
So, if we think logically and read this verse, we can
understand that god actually doesn't have a sex/gender.
So it's just our human understanding that we need to
assign god a gender or sex, so he needs to be a male
he needs to be strong, or needs to be our father
he needs to protect us from some evil
deeds or evil people.
But clearly, the bible says that god doesn't have a sex/gender
Because he created both male and female
In his image and likeness..
If we say that God is only male and he's only a man
We exclude women/females from also being
created in god's image.
Because again, if we're thinking logically,
Wow, logic, you're welcome here!
We can see that it clearly says that god created in (his) image
both people, both genders/sexes
God doesn't say "I created man in my image,
but then I decided to change a few things
and I created a woman"
It doesn't say that. It says
"created THEM in God's own image"
therefore those Christians who don't agree
with transgender people or gender-fluid etc. people
they are going against the bible, because even the bible says that god
doesn't have one or the other gender or sex.
For many years Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc.
women were and are still treated like objects
So they're usually just there as something that
only exists to satisfy all the needs and wants of men
and this kind of thinking is very wrong.
Because again if we read those verses we see –
BOTH created in God's image, equally.
The verses that say that man is to rule over a woman
and the man is like a king in the house
were clearly written by a man
they were definitely not written by god
because God who created BOTH male and female in God's image
would NEVER say something like that
If I were a god and I created humans, male and female,
I'd never tell them that one of them is better,
higher or should be ruling over the other.
How can I as a creator or if you have children, how can you
tell your children that one of them is better than the other
or everyone should obey this one person
or if they were born with a different genitalia they're
somehow better than another person
it would be wrong and very cruel.
The verses that say that men will rule and
women shall serve them – I'm sure that
they were written by men and they were written by humans.
I believe that God would never say something like
this one out of my creation I'll create at a lower status
cuz ya know… it's just a woman.
God created both male and female in his image,
Repeat after me – in his image he created them.
To wrap it up I want to repeat that I think that
God doesn't have a sex or gender.
He doesn't say that he is a father, son, mother,
daughter or grandma
He's a god, if he exists then he's simply
a being that created all of us.
It's always funny when I hear Christians tell me
that "the concept of trinity is so complex no one
can truly understand it!"
but then they tell me about how black
and white our world is,
that we only have two genders – male and female
but the concept of trinity is suuuch a complex concept
no one can really understand it
As soon as I even mention that sexuality, sex or gender
are also quite complex concepts, I get told to shut up
they say – no, no, no! That's all clear, God already got it all
but the trinity – is suuuuch a difficult concept.
So if you struggle to understand trans people who
were born female and became a male, or vice versa
or if you can't understand those who don't conform to
either gender, so they don't feel like they are either,
then think about it – God isn't a male or female, because he is both.
And before you start judging transgender people or other
people on the specter of gender, just remember that God
was assigned a gender by humans.
We, with our limited thinking decided that he'll the father or the son
If you have any thought about this, agree or disagree with me,
I'd be happy to hear from you in the comment section
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Thanks for watching!
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