Did God Have a wife and if so, Where is She?

A British-based theologian has come to the conclusion that God did not work alone, asserting that the fertility goddess known as Asherah was essentially his wife.

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Anything that has to do with religion and ancient beliefs can be fascinating. The problem with followers of any religion is their lack of curiosity and knowledge of how their religion started and learn more about those names mentioned in the scriptures. The bible which is quoted or misquoted by millions on a daily basis to both to destroy and to built. To kill and to heal, is a good place to start with the most common sense questions. One of the questions that kids asked when you start to teach them about god is, Where is his wife? They are taught about getting married to the opposite sex since they are able to speak but in the bible their god wether is Yahweh in the old testament or Christ in the new they don’t seem to accomplish one of the things that men are pushed to do, to have a wife.

A leading theologian asked the question and answers it by saying, Yes! And she may have been edited right out of the Bible.

The below article is not a new one just like these questions and ideas are not knew. There is nothing you can ask about religion and the status quo’s of any old religion that has not been asked before and in many cases answered by someone who delved into the subject and studied the most difficult questions. 

The deacons of religions wether is the pope, the bishop or just some preacher telling you about your salvation at 2am on a sunday morning tells you to go by faith and not ask too many questions. People in a cult or religion like scientology don’t answer questions.  Instead you have to go and study their dogma which tells you what you should know to be at the level of holiness or sainthood or salvation and nothing more. “Some things are not meant for mortal men to know.”

To answer questions in a non bias way you need to strictly go by the information available, old writings from different sources that corroborate that question on hand.

When I first read the Bible I was amazed to find out where some of the religious eduction I was getting was coming from. I was relieved that some stuff was actually written somewhere. Being curious that was satisfying but what was troubling was that most of the dogma I was told to follow or avoid were not written anywhere in the good book. That was the first indication to me I needed to know more.  May be I was missing something.

I would like to share with you the following post on a subject I still find  so interesting. 

All the great religions of the world share the belief that there is but one solitary creator of the universe. But they could be mistaken, says Britain-based theologian Francesca Stavrakopoulou. "I have come to a colorful and what could seem, to some, uncomfortable conclusion that God had a wife," she says. Who is God's companion and where has she been hiding all these years? Here, an instant guide:
Respect for faith: Dr Francesca Who is God’s wife?   
Our creator's better half is a powerful fertility goddess named Asherah, says Stavrakopoulou. She was once worshipped as the companion of Yahweh, the name of God in the Hebrew bible.

What's the evidence for this?
The existence of an ancient goddess named Asherah has been acknowledged for some time, but Stavrakopoulou has unearthed fragments of ancient pottery in Syria that date back to around 800 B.C. that refer to "Yahweh and his Asherah" — implying that the two were a "divine pair." There are also lines in the Bible that refer to worship of the goddess in Yahweh's temple in Jerusalem. "In the Book of Kings," says the theologian, "we're told that a statue of Asherah was housed in the temple and that female temple personnel wove ritual textiles for her."

If she's really God's wife, why isn't she in the Bible more?
It sounds a bit "Dan Brown-ish," says The Huffington Post, but "the Bible's editors may very well have wiped her almost clean from the document." Several Old Testament experts say the ancient authors who collated the texts either cut out references to Asherah, or translated her name as "Sacred Tree."

Why would she have been cut out of the Bible?
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 B.C., Israelite leaders emphasized strict monotheism in order to unite their different tribes. The idea, says theologian Aaron Brody, was that there's "one god not only for Judah, but for all the nations." Before that, polytheism — or the worship of a number of gods — was quite common. Several of the ancient Israelite gods, such as El, Baal, and Molek, were similarly cast aside in favor of Yahweh.

Should we be sceptical of Stavrakopoulou's claims?
The devout may wish to know that the theologian is an atheist who says her research is a "branch of history like any other." She has also said that Eve should not be blamed for the Fall of Man, as she had been "very unfairly maligned as the troublesome wife."

Sources: Discovery, Huffington Post, TIME, Daily Mail,The Week