A Rabbi Claims That God Is Transgender

Townhall.com ^ | August 15, 2016 | Michael Brown

[j.argese]

There is a long history of heresy in Judaism and Christianity. Some heresies become practice depending upon popularity and hierarchy of believers.

[xzins]

The rabbi has abandoned the Creator and consigned the great I Am to the created order. If nothing else, the rabbi is shallow beyond belief.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Lord stoops to us, in using the genders known in creation to teach us about the Lord.

We can’t ever make a perfect picture of it with our own reason. That’s both the bad news and the good news. It’s bad news because we couldn’t ever get right with God on our own. It’s good news because it’s one more signpost to the promise of God to make us right if we yield.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s but only one example of the Garden folly.

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Eve was a typo?

Nooooo, Adam was a rough draft...

[odawg]

“Since God is never d scribed as having a physical body that is a silly question.”

That kind of thinking has always puzzled me. I once read an explanation by a religious leader who took pains to explain that when God said “Let us make man in our image” that certainly did not mean that God made man in His image, because he, God, does not have a body.

God, himself, evidently believes he has a body, because He told Moses that if he, or any person, looked upon Him, he would die.

Jesus told his disciples that when they saw him, they saw the Father. Then there is the transfiguration.

Angels don’t have physical bodies, but they are described as having bodies. The angel Gabriel is described in detail in the book of Daniel, golden skin tone, expensive clothes, golden belt around his waist, etc. He would have made it big in Hollywood.

[EinNYC]

This guy is no rabbi. It offends me to use that honorific on him. He went to a Reform “seminary”. He is a spokesman (I can’t call him “rabbi”) of a congregation billing itself as “trans-denominational”. Huh? So, anything goes, anyone goes, it has lost any meaning.

[xzins]

Agreed

[bgill]

The rabbi is rabid.

[null and void]

Aye, the need to refer to The Supreme Being as a 'He' or a 'She' reflects our limitations, not His.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Maybe he’s just being honest about where human religion goes.

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DAMMIT! you broke my gaydar!

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We can’t ever make a perfect picture of it with our own reason.

Assuming there is a God, we could no more comprehend Him than an ant could fully comprehend the Empire State Building.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We have to get into questions about what “looked” means in the context.

This would be spiritual looking, I believe. One would encounter nothing but condemnation, nothing but shortcomings found, before the Lord when still divorced from His apprising of what was good and evil and thrown back on one’s own finite, mortal reason about it. One could only be killed by such a “view.”

This does not contradict the Christian story. The Lord, through humility (He is never forced by external agency to do so) can choose to embrace physical manifestations for the sake of a lost and straying mankind.

[HiTech RedNeck]

God stoops to put enough of Himself within our grasp that we can see that God makes sense, yet as something that presents to us, rather than something we dreamed up.

[Karliner]

Amen to that.

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Geese

[SkyDancer]

It’s always interesting to read how these heresies get ingrained.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Praise the Lord for geese.

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Still, the flock had no real comprehension of the man.