Sure.
Often the conflicts that arise in talks of God's nature arrives because some have a predisposition of disdain for the female sex. This pre exists their faith.
When such ones come to find our faith they can cleave to the patriarchal aspects and as such wrongly imagine God as male.
That errant idea reiterates their predisposition of contempt for human females.
God is male therefore male is superior and women are inferior.
And unfortunately they will sometimes reckon back to Genesis and point to God having created the male first.
Their issue isn't Biblical. It's personal.
God is not male. God is not a man that he should lie.
Female and male humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Both genders created in the image and likeness of God.
God created the female human to give life. And sustain life from her own self. Both in utero and post utero. (Breast feeding. Men have "breasts" too. Though they don't have mammary glands. And,they do get breast cancer.)
All designed by the will and according to the plan of The Word. The Creator, Spirit.
Women create life from within. And God even created the process of Parthenogenesis.(Human asexual reproduction)
Creator created in Creators image and likeness. Creator created Female with the ability to continue the human race her-self.
Here's a fascinating anatomical fact.
The inner reproductive organs of the female human are the pattern of the exterior male reproductive parts.
Then there's this:
"....The foundation for thinking of God in feminine terms is in the prologue to Genesis, Genesis 1:1 to 2:4. Scholars call this poetic section the
Elohistic account of Creation because of the divine name used predominantly throughout and consider it to be newer than the earlier
Yahwist (another divine name) account of the creation of Adam and Eve in chapter 2. Many feel that in so much of the Bible, the inspired priestly poets, scribes, and prophets rearranged topics and verses."
Source and more reading:
The language incorporates the feminine principle into the very essence of God There are profound metaphors of God as feminine in the Hebrew Old Testament. On occasion this poetic imagery is allegorized literally as female; most often the feminine appears in the Hebrew Bible in metaphor and...
www.cbeinternational.org
Excavations of early people's around the world found their holding to any religious ideology or worship found Female imagery,idols, that predate male iconography,idols.
Giving birth was honored in life and in death.
Graves were found wherein the grave walls were painted red with ochre. A reflection of the blood that gushed forth and brought life.
Women bled once a month and lived to tell. Then they'd stop bleeding,swell,and bring forth a living being like themselves.
It was a miracle to primitive minds because they did not know the part male sperm played.
Long post. But...you asked. ;)
