God made the earth with the help of Jesus who is god-like but not God. This is described in Proverbs 8:30 and Colossians 1:15, 16. Thus, he says "let us make man in our image." As to the gender of God, he/she doesn't have a body as we do so how could we really say. He is referred to as male in the Bible but most likely because men were viewed as heads or leaders.
As to why Ashereth was so popular was because the Isrealites failed to remove all Canaanite influence from the land. Some were not removed in Joshua's conquest of the Promise Land and it proved to be a thorn in Israel's side in more ways than one.
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God made the earth with the help of Jesus who is god-like but not God. This is described in Proverbs 8:30 and Colossians 1:15, 16. Thus, he says "let us make man in our image." As to the gender of God, he/she doesn't have a body as we do so how could we really say. He is referred to as male in the Bible but most likely because men were viewed as heads or leaders.
As to why Ashereth was so popular was because the Isrealites failed to remove all Canaanite influence from the land. Some were not removed in Joshua's conquest of the Promise Land and it proved to be a thorn in Israel's side in more ways than one.