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Originally Posted by SolInvictus

the Word/Logos can refer to Wisdom or feminine personification of God.

LOGOS.....Hmmmmmm

Please help me out here...????

From what source do you draw he conclusion that GOD has a feminine side.

Lo·gosPronunciation Key
n.

1. Philosophy.
   1. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
   2. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
2. Judaism.
   1. In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
   2. In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
3. Christianity. In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.

logos
n : the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)


Could it be from the rants of latest NewAge "We All Must Be Tolerate" author...??? Just Curious..!!!!


fem·i·ninePronunciation Key

1. Of or relating to women or girls.
2. Characterized by or possessing qualities generally attributed to a woman.
3. Effeminate; womanish.

1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

The Greek Meaning of Effeminate:

malakoV malakos mal-ak-os'

of uncertainaffinity; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite:--effeminate, soft.

un·cer·tainPronunciation Key

1. Not known or established; questionable:

adhloV adelos ad'-ay-los

from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1212; hidden, figuratively, indistinct:--appear not, uncertain

af·fin·i·tyPronunciation Key
n. pl. af·fin·i·ties

1. A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship.
2. Relationship by marriage.

1Co 6:9

6:9 η ουκ οιδατε οτι αδικοι βασιλειαν θεου ου κληρονομησουσιν μη πλανασθε ουτε πορνοι ουτε ειδωλολατραι ουτε μοιχοι ουτε μαλακοι ουτε αρσενοκοιται

Pronunciation Guide:

malakos {mal-ak-os'}

Part of Speech - adjective

1) soft, soft to the touch
2) metaph. in a bad sense
a) effeminate
1) of a catamite
2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
4)of a male prostitute





For those who wish to throw out the "Translation" wild card as justification....well sorry....whether English or Greek...it says the same thing.