Posted on 08/29/2026 9:45:13 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A Nashville pastor is facing scrutiny after teaching that God once had a wife named Asherah who was later written out of the Bible. Zach Helton, co-pastor of Glendale Baptist Church, a congregation associated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Alliance of Baptists, made the claims during a recent sermon. Helton told his congregation that Asherah was the "female divine presence who was worshipped alongside Adonai" and the ancient consort of God before biblical authors concealed her identity.
Helton's church bio states he is "deeply shaped by the teachings of Jesus, Buddhist practice, mysticism, and perennial wisdom over any particular religious expression." He condemned King Josiah for destroying idols and Asherah poles during his reign, lamenting the impact it would have on young Israelite girls who needed a feminine deity to look up to. Helton argued that Josiah's reforms were motivated by a desire to consolidate political power, not theological purity.
The pastor claimed that ancient Israel worshipped not only Yahweh but Yahweh and Asherah together, and that the prophetic literature shows nobody had a problem with that. He asserted that scriptures were modified and history rewritten to eliminate the divine feminine, blaming "fragile male egos" for the change. "Can you imagine for a minute being a woman in seventh-century BCE Israel?" Helton asked his congregation.
Critics have pointed out that nowhere in the Bible is God said to have a wife, and that Asherah is consistently presented as a false idol. One response noted, "Asherah is not Eve, nor is she the wife of God for God does not have a wife." The theory Helton presented, while discussed in some academic circles, remains highly controversial and is rejected by orthodox Christian theology
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I thought it was a bunch of poles.
Heretics are everywhere these days, even in the catholic church.
They obviously ain’t Suthen Babtist.
{sigh} Jack Chick's Law rears it's ugly head right on cue.
FACTS:
Mary is Jesus' Mother
Jesus is God =
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Mary is the Mother of God.
Perfect!
No, she was the mother of the Son of God. Not the mother of God the Father.
God’s people went around tearing down the Asheras every chance they got. Pulled them (totem poles essentially) out of the ground and burned them.
John 10:30
"The Father and I are one."
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A Jehovah's Witness told me that Jesus was not God, but the Son of God.
Are you a Jehovah's Witness? Or some other non-trinitarian sect?
I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot...oh wait a minute.
Isn't the maypole a vestige of the Asherah pole?
Nobody says she is Mother of God the Father.
She is Mother of God the Son; Jesus, fully man and fully God. Thus, she is the Mother of God. To deny this is to either deny she gave birth to Jesus, who is God, or to deny Jesus is God.
GOD THE FATHER’S wife is said to be Israel.
Sounds like an ancient gnostic entity. Wasn’t written out because it was never written in.
And what kind of "Christian" pastor would use "BCE" (before common era) instead of BC anyway? There's another telltale of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Not that BC/AD is straight out of the Bible or anything, but the terminology is grounded in biblical faith and the lordship of God, while BCE/CE shows a person worships human authority in opposition to God.
I hope she included the leafy celery stick.
Sorry; wrong thread.
Don’t forget that Jesus existed before Mary did. Long, long, long before.
He pre-existed as the God the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity. But as Jesus, the Son of God made flesh, he was born of the Virgin Mary:
Luke 1:30-31:
"And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
He ain’t no pastor. He should be FIRED. He will be the day he stands before the Creator to answer for his apostasy.
That’s right.
Jesus said there won’t be marriage in heaven. I’ll go with him rather than this guy.
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