Yahweh has a spouse. Is ''Asherah'' Yahweh's Goddess?

you were told wrong.

This is the current sexy trend in the field of study. It's provocative, makes for great tv teasers, has a cadre of people who will swear it's all true.... The thing is, when you get past the sexy sound bytes, it's not based on much.

One of the centre pillars of this claim is the identification of small, terracotta figures. The figures are obviously female. There are a lot of them. They're simple, which suggests popular rather than central usage. That's ALL we know about them. But one of the first 'G-d had a wife' hypothesists decided that they just had to be goddess figures and that unsubstantiated identification has been repeated so often it's become true.

Except that it hasn't. :-) The figures may well be some sort of childbirth or perhaps fertility amulet depicting a normal, human woman rather than a goddess.

Two more unsubstantiated but very common leaps are the assumptions that if it says YHVH, it 1) just has to be Jewish and 2) representative of major trends in Judaism. Which completely ignores statements in the Tanakh about people adopting practices from other religions AND the tendency of polytheistic cultures to 'borrow' each others' deities. Two inscriptions from obscure locations does not make anything a major trend. :-) Or a part of Judaism.

People also get really excited about 'asherah' references in the Tanakh and assume that this just has to be about a goddess. They don't. You noted the asherah pole and the adaptation of a proper noun for something more general. We see similar adaptation with 'moloch' as well.

And that's pretty much the entirety of their argument. Four unsubstantiated leaps and a provocative sound byte tag line.

What did God Himself say about this? "You will have no other gods (or goddesses) before Me". It's entirely possible that someone tried to blend the worship of YHWH or Jehovah (the LORD, as He is called in the Bible) with the pagan worship of Ashtaroth (plural of Asherah). God would not stand for it, and the worship of any other deity besides Himself was denounced often, Isaiah and Jeremiah, for example, gave many sermons about the Hebrew people abandoning the worship of God for the worship of just about anything else. Take a look at 2 Kings chapter 17 and you'll get a clear description of why the northern kingdom was carried off into captivity. Jeremiah 39 and 40 give a thumbnail sketch as to why the same thing happened to Judah, the southern kingdom.

Asherah was a goddess in olden times. The Jews used to be polytheistic, so they worshipped many gods and goddesses. A stop was put to this and Judaism became monotheistic, but some people also wanted a goddess to balance the God Head.

The real wife of God is not Asherah, but The Omnipresent Mother, who is the Divine Empress of Heaven.

No. That is pagan teachings that infiltrated the Hebrew faith around the time of Jeremiah and was what Jeremiah warned the people about. They did not listen and for their lack of faith and their disobedience Jerusalem was taken by the Babylonians and destroyed. Though later it was rebuilt, it never reached the beauty and glory of it's former days.

Yahweh (YHWY) is the only true God, first and last, being all powerful Jehovah has no need of a goddess, that is a concept of flesh and a teaching of the demons that came to earth and took the form of flesh, giving up their spirit relationship with God.

That was an offshoot, a cult, that grew up inside of ancient Judaism. Jeremiah as well as not a few other Jewish prophets condemned it. That whole "queen of heaven" stuff is the forerunner of the current Maryology (Catholic) stuff doing the same thing though now she is not God, the Father's wife but His Son's mother instead.

It was never accepted by the priesthood of Israel or it's (real) prophets.

Like every group, the Jews had some bad apples too. Moses had some in his time and they got consumed by fire.

Asherah is mentioned many, many times in the Torah and Tanakh. But NEVER as anything OTHER than a VILE, PAGAN entity who deserves only to have all traces of her wiped out.

The first reference is waaaayyyy back in Exodus 34:13:

Exodus 34:13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

In ALL the references to "The Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah, God speaks of the worship of this being as provoking Him to anger.

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger.

In Jeremiah 44 it is clear that God speaking through Jeremiah is condemning the worship of "The Queen of Heaven", not supporting it.

The scriptural record is clear that Asherah is nothing but a false goddess, not YHWH's "consort".

Also, "Queen of Heaven" was a title applied to many pagan goddesses, including Hera.

Yep.

The "Elohim" mentioned in Genesis is the panoply of "gods" derived from Canaanite/Sumerian mythology, with "El" as the head god, Yahweh one of his sons, and Asherah Yahweh's wife. Over time, one part of the Hebrews claimed Yahweh as the "god" of their tribe -- they fully accepted there were lots of gods, just that Yahweh and his wife/consort Asherah were specifically the god overseeing their tribe. That myth evolved later so they claimed Yahweh to be the most powerful of all the gods, then to dumping Asherah as they became more misogynistic and ditched anything valuable that was female (their own women and any goddesses), and much later on to Yahweh being the ONLY god.

Peace.

yes rather neat eh? I named one of my rabbits Asherah.. She is the US in Genesis along side of Yahweh. The creation myths are a lot in common only as they went along she was turned into just the "holy spirit' so no gender involved. Females were deemed weak and to submit to men so you cant go around saying God the Mother anymore.. But shes still in there... Shes wisdom in Proverbs. She walks with isaiah.. Shes the comforter. Shes the Shekhinah Glory. She is Grace. She is the Great mother.. One with the Father who combined are one Spirit One mind. .One source. Universe. *one song*

God never had a wife. Asherah was a false pagan goddess.

I find it rather odd that in your original question you appear to be questioning what you were "told" and then you go off on the rest of your "question".

No, you were told wrong.