And the sermon per the article said the following: 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.
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.