Introduction

Before I get started, I just want to say that no matter what the Lord has done to accomplish his goals he has done it out of necessity. It was the only way there was to do it. And to be sure, he has accomplished great and glorious things in this world, to his credit. But the journey has not always been straight or without hazard, even for him. In the end, he deserves all the glory and reward that he receives from us. He deserves to be God.

So do not forget this, while you are reading through my site. The overall goal was accomplished and he did bring us life in the end. Yet it may seem to you that I am trying to take credit away from him when you read through. This is not the case.

Bible interpretation was taken over by the male of our society from the beginning, even though women had the right and the responsibility to interpret it for themselves. It has become a piece of literature largely ignored by the new age and feminist movements, to their loss. Yet its importance in today's western society is undisputed. It is on this book that our government, education, and justice systems were built. Even the medical profession can point to the scriptures and say it was partly based on the writings there.

Taking advantage then, of this invaluable document, we can view it to be the story of creation for both mankind and God - through our collective faith. We certainly cannot afford to dismiss it. Rather, let us make better use of its teachings, throwing away any interpretation that results in the negative.

There is nothing keeping us from using the scriptures in such a way that the most beneficial doctrine reaches its full potential. There is nothing keeping women from balancing out the negative effects that traditional interpretation has caused. In short, women can take "ownership" of the Bible in the same way men did from the beginning, in using it to promote themselves certainly, but for the best and highest of reasons - for life. The results will be Life, for it is the female that produces life.

We are supposed to know the truth about God, by looking around us. Traditional beliefs based on the Bible however, often do not appear to correspond with the physiological facts. Nowhere in our world does the female have as little to do with giving life, than in man's interpretation of the scriptures. And this needs to be addressed. For if we can count on the rest of the Bible, to be a guide for our lives, why not in this area?

We must be able to interpret scripture in practical terms. I will not accept that the Bible is wrong, so I can only conclude that we have somehow gone wrong in our interpretation of it. If we are to use the best principles of Biblical doctrine, then it is time to reconcile what is happening in the world around us with what we believe the Bible to be saying to us. The physical world is supposed to be patterned after the Spiritual after all. So we must be able to apply our beliefs in Biblical terms, so that they are relevant to our lives.

Does the Bible say that the man gestates and gives birth to the children? No. Yet we have come to accept that a 'male-only' God does this in the Spiritual world. Does it mean that in this respect man is not made in God's image? If that is so, then that's a big point to misrepresent, don't you think? It would mean that the Bible is not being consistent, and that we are not made in God's image in this respect.

Or is it possible that we have been forming our beliefs about God prematurely? After all, the Israelites did so for many, many centuries. God dealt with them according to their level of maturity and the beliefs they had at that time. What makes us think that we are being treated any differently?

Did the disciples understand that Jesus had to be raised from the dead before it happened? No. Did they understand that divorce was not acceptable to God except in special cases? No - they had to ask. Weren't the people woken up gradually to the next level of truth, as they matured and were ready to accept it?

Let me put it another way. Is God obligated to tell us what the next step is in our spiritual growth? Or is he trying to teach us, by letting us learn for ourselves, and awakening us slowly?

Many have interpreted the Bible to say that life comes from the male side of God. And in a way you could say this about man too, because it is the truth in the larger sense. According to the beginning, Adam was male to start with. This was before a part of him was taken out, and formed into the woman. Then he reunited with his wife in a different way, to produce children. But the children came directly from the female body, not the male's. Only indirectly did they come from the body of the male - so we can legitimately say that life came from the male in this way, and still be correct. However, do you think the average person would say it this way without qualifying the statement? If they did, they would be misleading, wouldn't they? For no-one would say that the father bears the children.

So if we were truly made in God's "image", then it would be the same way in the Spiritual world, as it is in the physical. We would just have to qualify it, or "interpret" it correctly by looking for the hidden details. Do we need to study the Bible to know that women produce life from their own bodies? No. All we have to do is look around us to see the facts. And since what may be known about God is plain to us because God has made it plain, and we are without excuse (Rom 1:19-20) - we may also assume that the similarities between man and God are not going to be difficult to understand. The facts are surrounding us, as plain as plain can be.

In the Bible, not a lot of detail is given to us as to the process by which life happens - at least from what has been so far determined. All we know is that the man is given credit for being the head of the family - even though the woman is at least as important, if not more so, to the giving of life to the children from her own body.

Yet the woman works in her husband's name - and to the Israelites, that things were in the man's name was very important. That he is given the credit for his own work, and his own children, was pivotal to his place in society, and in the world. Men needed credit for the life of the family - so that the family could have recognition in society.

But to say that the Lord God is the beginning of life, without qualifying that statement, is to be misleading, just as explained above. So it is up to us, as children of God, to grow in our discernment of these passages, to fill in the blanks, and make them comply with what we know as facts in our lives. We have to make the Bible apply to the truth, even in those areas where it doesn't appear to be doing so because of traditional interpretation.

God the Father is "Life" in the same way that the husband is, in partnership with his wife, in this world. He takes the credit for producing life in the same way that men have been taking credit for it throughout the ages, by giving his children his name. Spiritually- speaking this has the effect of hiding the work of the female behind the male in written form - in the Word of God.

So here's the story. The egg has life only because the mother sustains it within her body, before fertilization. When the sperm enters the area, the mother sustains that too for a time. And after the seed fertilizes the egg, both are fed together - given oxygen, blood, and all the rest that the mother provides. The egg and the sperm have become "one," and the nature of the female is such that she allows her body to be exploited until gestation is complete. The man does not have the same nature as the woman, so he doesn't have the same physical capabilities. But the man's part does waken the egg to life - giving it the knowledge of life. This is the sperm, or "seed" of the father. After this quickening to life and the subsequent implant into the uterine wall, the egg begins to grow and take shape within the female body.

Did the man really produce life through his participation? Or did the sperm simply awaken the life that was already there? The egg obviously already had life from the mother - it just wasn't aware of life until it was quickened. Even so, neither could the sperm survive in this 'Garden', or do its job of fertilizing the egg, without the mother producing the surrounding environment.

Just so, Jesus is the "seed" of his Father. If not to quicken us to life, why else did he have to die, and go to the heart of the earth? Any sperm goes to the heart of the egg if it is successful, does it not? Is it not generally acknowledged that the earth is a living organism, full of all the necessary elements and materials from which our own bodies are derived? We are just like cells in one massive body - physically and Spiritually. We are part of the body of mankind, but we are also part of the Body of Christ - the Spiritual Body that makes us Spiritual offspring. Christ needed to die in his physical body but also in his Spiritual body in order to wake us up to life.

The birth that Jesus spoke of, that was still to come, was the birth of the Spiritual Body of Christ, as he prophesied in Matthew 24:7-8, "There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains." This doesn't mean that we aren't woken up as individuals through the "born again" experience when we first receive Christ. But that is when we become part of the Body that is already growing. We are added in, becoming part of the vine. It truly does feel like being born again, but the process of birth is not yet complete at this point. It is a quickening - the promise of being part of the larger event. According to Jesus' words, and others' in the New Testament, the larger birth is yet to come. We are growing in the Spiritual womb, inside our Spiritual Mother.

So, there is one Body, with each organ and cell doing its part, building up in love and the knowledge of God. We have been gestating as a collective Body, since Jesus' time. This requires a Mother in order to fulfill the promise of birth. We have turned a blind eye to her existence, but for what reason? Why deny her, if the Bible and the evidence of physical life clearly points to her presence? Is it just that most people don't want to think that mothers are important? Or could it be the deception that happened right in the beginning, that has blinded us?

Paul mentions her in Gelatians 4, in symbolic terms, as "Jerusalem above." He was not deceived. And of course he refers to Isaiah 54, as the "barren woman." She is found in the Revelation 21:2 & 10, again symbolically. In fact, the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden is a representation of her tree, just as the Father was represented by the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. The tree of Life is rightfully called "wisdom" that gives life to us, if we accept her, according to this verse, "She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed." (Proverbs 3:18)

The operative word here is 'embrace'. We must choose her and build her of our own free will within our Spiritual hierarchy. It's not that she does not exist in the Bible - it's just that we have been ignoring her and the evidence in the details of scripture. We have neglected to look at the obvious evidence in our physical lives, and to reconcile that with scripture. We haven't felt the need to acknowledge her in our beliefs, and in fact, have preferred to believe in her nonexistence because of the position the church thought they could hold in her place - as their Father's partner.

The heart and the mind of God are represented by the two trees in the Garden - the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. The heart is the first organ that is formed in the life of the baby. Then comes the brain as the second organ, stemming out from the heart. It is the heart that gives life to the brain and the other organs, while the brain gives knowledge back to the body using the substance of life that is given to it. But did we recognize this in the beginning? No. We acknowledged and ate from the tree of Knowledge first in the Garden, and that by deception. We started out this physical life trying to set things up backwards - by eating from the fruit of knowledge without first recognizing eating from the fruit of life. This subsequently blinded us, resulting in our being cut off from the tree of Life as part of our punishment. We were blinded to our Mother's existence from the start.

So what makes us think we have real Life that God intended even now? How can we, If we do not recognize or accept the tree of Life?

Those two trees represent the beginning of our lives here on earth - they are two great gifts from God, for they are God in themselves - if we would just develop them inside our spirits the right way. While God has been gestating us, we have been gestating God all along.

We must choose to accept the tree of Life - to embrace her - in order to receive the benefits of wisdom. We must not be blind to her presence any more, if we hope to find the real Life that was prophesied by Jesus.