To those who worship a male supreme deity - why? What leads you to conclude that the Supreme Being is male or otherwise masculine? How do you arrive at the idea that the Creator is male? I don't see this in nature. It is the female who brings forth life in nature. The male's contribution is somewhat of an afterthought. Even fetuses start out female and only develop into males when the Y chromosome is introduced. The Bible, for instance, has this backward and has the woman being born from the male, as an afterthought when Adam couldn't find a suitable companion among the animals. How does this make any sense?
If you look in the mirror, you will see your image. Since you are male, you will see the image of a male. One male. If your sister/mother/wife or whoever enters the room, you will see her image in the mirror as well. You will see the image of a male and a female. You cannot see the image of a female unless a female enters the room and stands beside you.
Now after imagining that exercise, read the account in Genesis regarding the creation of Adam. 26 ¶And God said, Let
us make man in
our image, after
our likeness: ...27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them."
Now look at the genealogy of the patriarchs down to Adam in Luke 3:38 "....which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam, which was the son of God."
It's just that most people hate the idea of their
parents having sex, let alone their God. Also, they associate sexual relations with sin and they assume that God cannot have sex because he is sinless; however, sexual relations within the context that God commanded is not sin, so that is a false assumption.
Another false assumption is that the word "create" implies that something is suddenly called forth from nothing by a statement. Nothing could be further from the truth. All matter has infinite existence. It is not all organized, however, and the act of creation involves organizing matter into a usable form. When God created Adam from the dust of the earth, he simply partook of the fruit of the trees which were in the Garden of Eden. Now the trees formed that fruit by taking up nutrients from the soil, and when those nutrients were ingested, they were utilized to form Adam in the same manner as we create and nourish our children, and thus we are formed from the dust of the earth.
There are those who may not be able to resolve this concept, based on the fact that the scriptures relate that Jesus is the only begotten son of God. This, however is another assumption based on a superficial reading of the verses in question.
Adam inherited genes from our immortal Heavenly parents which made him immortal as well. He did not become mortal until he partook of the forbidden fruit, which when ingested acted upon his cellular makeup and began the process of degeneration by cellular division, which shortens the telomeres in a gradual fashion until the body can no longer be sustained and subsequently dies.
But Jesus was begotten by God of a mortal woman so that Christ, having genes for both mortality and immortality, could choose to either live or die, an essential component for the act of atonement. Thus Christ was the only begotten son of God of
mortal flesh. Therefore, the scripture is not violated in saying that Adam also was the son of God, which fact by the way, is stated repeatedly in the scriptures.
