The Apotheosis of Hermaphroditism

Then God said, “Let us (emphasis mine) make mankind in our (emphasis mine) image, in our (emphasis mine) likeness, so that they (emphasis mine) may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them (emphasis mine); male and female he created them.

Just how many people are talking about here? One God ("our image," "our likeness," "they may rule...").

What Does Gender Feel Like? God created them--Mankind.

One possible interpretation is that God is a hermaphroditic entity, with the combined elements of all genders. It is this longing for completeness, to achieve the most God-like reasssembly into that image and likeness, that drives the urge of one gender for the other. And in doing so, the experience sublimates into deific proportions. If God is Love, then the union of man and woman, in love, is self-explanatory. And God-like. There is nothing more powerful than "I am."

What about one gender's urge for the same gender? Is any love, God-like in any perspective, a violation of this chemistry? Simply, no. Love, God-like, is an absolute means and an end, existing outside of time simultaneously, like the hermaphroditic creature God is. Love is His/Her apotheosis, no matter how it comes to be.

For those who invoke the Bible to condemn what they see as aberrant, I only need to remind them of what looks, initially, like a grammatical error in agreement, in Genesis: God created mankind in their own image, in the image of God he created them. Anything less is just self-love (i.e., incomplete), and it cannot serve as justification for defining love in terms of exclusivity.

As long as there are urges between/among genders--and love--God will always be involved. And at work. And if there is no God, what a terrible waste of love's omnipotence!

Just sayin'.