Posted on 08/15/2016 6:46:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bad rabbi.
Congregation needs to check into this guy’s friends and interests outside temple.
God would properly be called an “it” rather than “he” “she” “heshe” “they” or “zhe”.
No single sin, or any finite number of sins, will do this (although some self-centered Christian “callings” will claim that they do) — but the unique sin of refusing God as Savior. Make any other mistake about Him, but do not make this mistake. Because if accepted as Savior, God will gladly correct the other mistakes — but that mistake is an everlasting mistake.
Since God is never d scribed as having a physical body that is a silly question. Physicality is not about attributes
In the Old Testiment God has many attributes including being compared to a mother hen sheltering her chicks from a storm.
People who think of God in a physical form diminishHim
Jesus had to become physical.....
;-)
He’s jumping thru hoops.
We ALL have male/female "attributes". BUT. It's "GOD THE FATHER".
Very broadly put, the masculine gender is associated with creation, whereas the feminine gender is associated with nurturing.
God gained the pronoun “He” for a good reason, although also concerned with matters that we would think of in the province of a “she.” Before something can be nurtured, it has to be created. The “He” role runs deeper here.
I guess arguments will now follow.
The LGBT crowd obviously don’t want to have to answer to a powerful masculine deity who would hold them accountable for their sordid actions. The rabbi decided to push an agenda and made up his supporting “facts” (lies) to support it. Obviously that rabbi doesn’t read his Bible or he would know all the information mentioned in the article Is very common knowledge . That or just blatantly lied as isreally just another agent of Satan posing as clergy. Seems to happen a lot throughout history but it’s really ramped up considerably the last few years.
Some Clerics can be idiots
" The Lord God, through Moses, forbade the worship of Asherah. The Law specified that a grove of trees was not to be near the altar of the Lord (Deuteronomy 16:21). Despite God’s clear instructions, Asherah-worship was a perennial problem in Israel. As Solomon slipped into idolatry, one of the pagan deities he brought into the kingdom was Asherah, called “the goddess of the Sidonians” (1 Kings 11:5, 33). Later, Jezebel made Asherah-worship even more prevalent, with 400 prophets of Asherah on the royal payroll (1 Kings 18:19). At times, Israel experienced revival, and notable crusades against Asherah-worship were led by Gideon (Judges 6:25-30), King Asa (1 Kings 15:13), and King Josiah (2 Kings 23:1-7)."
26 God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.'
27 God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them, saying to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth.'
29 God also said, 'Look, to you I give all the seed-bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth, and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this will be your food.
30 And to all the wild animals, all the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that creep along the ground, I give all the foliage of the plants as their food.' And so it was.
31 God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.
The story of God is the story of a mixture of actions that God has taught humanity about through the classic roles of both fathers and mothers.
The bible promises “If my mother and father forsake me, the Lord will take me up.” No “oops” here finding God to be like the classic fumbling single dad.
We should acknowledge ALL of these things and also acknowledge that it is impossible for our own finite reason to coordinate them correctly. Only the infinite wisdom of God can do that.
This can be very valuable in teaching that things that the “gay” crowd are concerned with are things that were created to be good but used in a wrong way, things that humanity attempted to master but failed. They have forgotten that God can, in fact, nurture their souls back to health, but in such a way as to “make straight paths for their limbs, so that what is unhealthy may be healed, rather than put out of joint.” An overly masculine obsessed, chauvinistic religion that knows nothing of nurturing is frankly of no more use here than one that is so feminized that it knows nothing of creation.
There’s a lot of interesting reads when doing a search on that phrase in Genesis.
Yep.
Eve was a typo?
The Garden folly of the pseudo-understanding of good and evil must be acknowledged before God too. We’ve all got a bent to do that, in lesser or greater extents, in various areas of life. No matter HOW good we think we have our understanding this side of the Pearly Gates, we have to guard against designing our own edifice, but be careful to throw it back on God for further correction and improvement and building.
Matthew chapter 22,29-32: At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
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