God

I went for a walk around the lake with my friend yesterday, and I got on the topic of God.

It excites me to no end, because she recently accepted Christ as her saviour :) So now I have a close friend who feels how I feel about these sorts of things whom I can talk to whenever I want.  Not that I didn't have friends like that before, but they go to different schools :/

Anyway, we were talking about God and why he doesn't come down and talk to us in person.

She said "Because then it would be too easy.  It would be like using a walk-through on Phoenix Wright."

And the game analogy made perfect sense :P Video games about lawyers: More fun than you might believe :)

Then I talked to her about her begin a Catholic and what that was all about and she explained, after which we got into a long discussion about women and the bible and how they were and are viewed.

First of all: The Apple.

Yes, Eve may have eaten it first, and she may have gotten Adam to do it, but it was his own weakness that led him to take a bite.  Not only that, but you could also say that Satan was, in a way, leading Adam astray through Eve.  So, though she was the first one to do so, I do not think it's fair to place the entirety of the blame on her.  It is partly Adam's fault as well.  He knew better, he could have said no.

SAY NO TO FORBIDDEN FRUIT, KIDS.

Also, when it comes to creation, God created "Man" in his own image.  But does that mean that he created Adam with two legs, two arms and a face? Does that mean that God has two arms, two legs and a face? And, dare I say it, is that the reason God gave Adam his "Jewels"? Does that mean that God looks like a man and that's how he created Adam?  Is that to say that Men are somehow better than women in the fact that they look "more like God"?  To me, I think God is bigger than two legs, two arms and a face.  I think he's bigger than our imaginations have room for explanation of his physical appearance.

If you look at the difference between a man and a woman's outward, physical appearance there are only two: (And I'm pretty sure you can guess what these are).

So, being that there is such little difference, what did God mean by creating "Man" in his own image?  First   of all, I think "Man" is referencing to "Mankind" and by "his own image" I think it means more the spiritual aspects than the physical.  After all, didn't God breathe life into every one of us? Aren't we all a piece of God in some way? Creating man in God's own image... to me, that is saying that "Mankind is essentially good."

So, since the "image" isn't at all physical, I don't think this means man is any closer to God than woman.

Finally: Why Jesus came down as a Man.

Well, if you think about the time when he came down, and how women were received, it makes sense that he wouldn't come down as one.  I think of it more as strategy.  Jesus wasn't the perfect man or anything, but doesn't it make sense to be a man in a man's world? Why would he handicap himself and potentially have no one listen to him if he came as a woman? I mean, some people still didn't, but yeah...

I don't think of it as male superiority in this case, but God knows how people work... And back in that time, women weren't all that influential.

So, that's pretty much all we talked about.  Just because we got into the topic of how women were seen as temptresses because of the apple thing, and not as equal in value as man because man was created first "in God's image."

Well, you know what they say... God was saving the best for last :P