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which merges the mysteries Of love an'
life into those Of death and resurrec
ton
The reasoning Is valuable as a spec
linen Of the absurd conclusions e
which a false conception Of the Deity
and our relationship to God, may lead
logically. When much Of the Bible
teaching Is rejected as Is the case "
the christian" world, and all stress IS
laid upon other parts. merely for the
sake OF establishing theory error Is
the Inevitable result. And that Is Just
what is commonly done. The Bible
IL studied, not as a divine teacher, 70
be heard and believed. but II Is read
for the purpose Of finding support for
already formed theories, That is, this
ia too often the case People are crit
les" rather than students. They ac-
cept what they can use and reject the
rest,
As to the subject under consideration,
the Bible expressly states that God
created man In His own image and lest
someone should mscOnstrue the word
man here to mean only Adam, the
historian adds. male and female cree
ated He them" thus including both
our progenitors In the statement that
imam" was created Ia the image Of
God,
The English language Is at a dlsad-
| vantage not having a separate word to
denote all human beings. The word
| man" IL therefore ambiguous. But
when 1t is said man" is mortal, 1t IL
well understood that imam" means
both men, women and children, and In
| the same way when we are told in Cen
esis that IMAM was created in
the Image of God, the word includes
both male and female. But II the
divine image, to be complete had to
reflect female as well as a male ele-
ment 1t Is self-eyident that both must
be contained In the Deity. And they are.
For the divine Spirit that in the morn
ing Of creation moved upon the face
Of the waters" bringing forth life and
order, is In the original language OF
the sacred historian represented in the
feminine gender, whatever modern
theology may think Of 1t.
But apart from this, when the Scrip"
lures represent God as "our Father"
does that not of necessity imply
mother? There are some words, the
meaning of which necessarily implies
,hat which other words denote Such
are. child and parent, husband and
Wife father and mother, etc. A man
may exist alone, and so may a woman,
hut there can be no fatherhood with
out motherhood, no husband II there
Is no wife. Is an exception to be made
IN the case OF Him who Is called "the
Father OF spirits?"
As to the angels, II is true that they
are generally referred to as in the
masculine gender, And that is not
surprising, For invariably. when there
10 occasion to mention any Of them, 1t
is in connection with some work they
were to accomplish Of such nature as
properly belongs 10 the so-called
stronger sex. They are engaged in
warfare, "or pouring out Walls of
wrath" or announcing the DEGREES of
the Almighty. The work OF warriors,
oil executors OF justice, of heralds, etc,
Is on earth. too. assigned to men, but
that does not argue that there are no |
women on earth, There may be some
thing in the old hypothesis that the |
cherublms and seraphims of the
Scriptures, really denote two different |
sexes among the hosts attending the
heavenly courts.
But an important truth Is undoubted-
~ taught in the fact that in the apoca-
lyptlc revelations given TO John the
Revelator, the Church of Christ and
the church OF the world are both rep
resented as women-one clothed with
the sun and crowned with starsand the
other sitting upon a scarlet-colored
beast. We may well say that this
would be eminently alb
surd, were womans role SO Insignia
cant, so transient as to last but mo-
ment and then pass away, Christ gave
Himself for His Church and when
lie wanted 10 represent the glory, the
'plendor, the triumph OF that Church,
lie chose to do so under the image
II a woman arrayed in light In the
,ame way. fallen woman was the III
representation Of the other church. IL
his does not prove the Importance OF
yomanhood in the affairs Of the world
10Th here and hereafter, II has no
meaning at all. 1t is simply an absurd
,lcture.
But there Is no need OF further ar
'ument. The explicit teachings Of the
scriptures Is that neither man, nor
,oman, is without the other in the
ord. And that condition death can
ot change, They are both equally
eeded for the future glory, develop
rent and exaltation. They both are In
he image OF God. Such are the Scrip
ure doctrines, which, however. must !
emain more or less Of mystery, as
ing as theologiens refuse TO accept :
he God OF the Bible preferring an {