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HEATHEN ALASKAN
The Bible does not say God is our Mother. The Bible does not give us female imagery when it comes to God.
I'm going to guess you have heard of the Shekinah.
The Bible Itself tells us the Hebrew worshiped a Goddess and God.
Philo (20 B.C. - 50 A.D.) says the cherubs that covered the Ark, were male and female, representing the male and female aspects of Deity. (Patai, p. 74)
Deity giving birth.
Isa 66:9 Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself bear forth, saith the YHVH? shall I, that give generation to others, be barren, saith thy ELOHIYM?
Job Who pent up the sea behind closed doors when it leaped tumultuous out of the WOMB.
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Isa 49:14 But Zion said, forsaken me has Adonay YHVH, and forgotten me.
Isa 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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Isa 42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
Isa 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
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Hos 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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Ruth 1:21 I went out full, and YHVH has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since YHVH has set His eye against me, and the (Shaddai) has hurt me?
"Harriet Lutzky, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York, has presented evidence that Shaddai was an attribute of a Semitic goddess, linking the epithet Shaddai with the Hebrew šad meaning "breast", giving the meaning "the one of the Breast", as Asherah at Ugarit is "the one of the Womb"."
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Psalms 123:1 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters; and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on YAHWEH our Elohiym, until to us is bestowed favor. (Master and Mistress)
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(Male and FEMALE as Deity with the Lost ONE.)
Luk 15:4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luk 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Luk 15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Luk 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Luk 15:8 and what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
Luk 15:9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
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And of course the Song of Songs - goes back an forth between Male and Female.
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Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Luk 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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Deut 32: 11-12 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
Deut 32:11-12 So YHVH guided/transported him, and no foreign Gods accompanied him.
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Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
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And so on - and on - and on.
Jer 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jer 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Jer 44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Obviously we have many references to the Hebrew Goddess, and Deity as Female, throughout the Bible.
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