The Role Of The Image Of God In Early Religion

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According to theologians of the most predominant religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam, God is not being considered of any sexual term. However, Elaine Pagels, the Author of “What became of God the mother?”, there are so many conflicts and argument about the Image of God in the Early Christianity.
Firstly, Valentinus who was a certain poet and teacher had declared that “God is essentially indescribable. And yet he suggests that the divine can be imagined as a Dyad consisting of two elements: one he calls the Ineffable, the Source, the Primal Father; the other, the Silence, the Mother of all things.”, and his followers also invoke the feminine power. For example, they were calling “Grace” which is in feminine term in Greek. Moreover,

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