You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Great to have you listening in. If you're a new listener, we welcome you to the program.

If you're a longtime listener, we welcome you to the program. If you're a long-time listener, we welcome you back.

It's great to have you.

Today, I'm going to just jump right in.

We're going to pick up right where we left off.

In our last episode, in episode number 54, we found that across the ancient Near East and ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and Canaan, that God

is universally described in the text, universally depicted in the iconography as a sexed being,

as a being who has either a male or a female body. This is a very important discovery because it indicates that in the

ancient world, there was a remarkably consistent belief that divine beings possessed both a body

and a defined sex. On today's program, I'm going to demonstrate that across the world,

thousands and thousands of miles away from the ancient Near East, and thousands of years later, we find that God is a sext being stubbornly persists.

It's yet another powerfully strong, stubborn bit.

One's so persistent that we can trace its roots all the way back to the dawn of civilization.

And because we can do this, we argue that the belief that God possesses a defined sex emerged from a single source in deep antiquity. A source we call on this program,

the ancient tradition, where it constituted a central tenet of who God is.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, wait, the vast majority of Jews and Christians today

don't believe this. They don't believe that God has a physical body or a defined sex.

And you're correct. The vast majority of Jews and Christians today reject outright the notion

that God is a sex being. I think it's really, really important before we move on in the podcast

to explain why this is. So today we're going to start the podcast by

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