Posted on 06/28/2019 11:32:03 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
Rev. Thomas Brown, who is married to a fellow priest, was ordained as a bishop of the diocese of Maine in the Episcopal Church June 22. Immediately following his ordination, Brown referred to God as a "she" twice in the Nicene Creed.
"She is worshipped and glorified. She has spoken through the prophets," the just-ordained Bishop Brown said, referring to the Holy Spirit.
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He will meet God’s wrath up close and personal some day. This guy will have no doubt in his mind who God is when that happens.
“I never knew you.”
My mother used to haul us to Baptist church
three days a week. Apparently she wasn’t
paying much attention herself, because as
an adult I told her Mary was not a member
of the Trinity and she got furious with me.
Oh, goodness gracious sakes alive!!
I could smell the stench of an Episcopalian before I opened the post.
You are both right and wrong.
You are right that God is not a man (male or female); man (male and female) was created in HIS image, not the other way around.
You are wrong that God has no male property by which He has basis to call Himself “He.” He refers to Himself in male terms throughout scripture, excepting as has been previously noted, some references to The Holy Spirit that I have not cataloged being not expressly male. God speaking prior to the First Advent of Christ speaks of Christ as “he.” Jesus speaking of God in the New Testament calls him “He.” The maleness of God is ubiquitous, though how it is expressed in the Person of the Divine remains mysterious to us, for we bear only his image, and that is sufficient; to bear His fullness is beyond our natural capacity.
The truth that St. Paul elucidated about there being “neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek (Gentile), slave nor free”; and Jesus’ own declaration that — in Heaven — mankind “neither marry nor are given in marriage,” but shall be as the angels — neither of these truths about physical gender obviate the eternal existence of “maleness” and “femaleness”; manifestations of which would continue, rightly, to be called “he” and “she.”
Excellent post and a fantastic capstone on this thread.
Well done!
Here’s his logic: “I have no use for women. I have no use for God. Therefore, God must be a woman.”
Infamous last words. Coming to a false prophet near you.
Yep - soon they will start using the word “SHim” to describe Him as a way of using both genders - then they will come up with ways to let folks describe Him as male with penis/female with penis/male without penis/female without penis and about 45 other ways to indicate one of the “latest new genders” to keep everyone happy.
1 Corinthians 6:9
English Standard Version
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous2 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,3
Nuff said
The ECUSA and other radicals are hanging on to the idea that the Holy Spirit is of indefinite gender.
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