Posted on 06/16/2015 11:58:25 AM PDT by ReformationFan
"Abba, Father" puts the lie to Bishop Libby. She should try to read the Bible sometime.
:D
Hoss
PFL
“Aslan is Tash”
This would fit in line with replacing a masculine Jesus with a female savior.
Some already look to her for salvation so the process is underway.
So women are Baal?
Hate to break it to ya, but fathers and sons imply mothers and daughters.
Even worse, half of creation is female, including human beings.
God is beyond sex. God is not male, and he’s not a father - God is God. As limited beings, we have limited language used in various ways for various reasons. But when addressing the infinite, we need to recognize we’ve reached the limits of our language and show a little humility.
And yeah, half the human race does, in fact, matter.
Sheesh.
God is describe in scripture as if he were male.
Jesus called God his father.
It seems odd to ascribe any generative gender to an Entity credited with creation ex nihilo, but that’s just reason talking.
But gender is “fluid.” Male today could be female tomorrow, and who-knows-what the next day. No more gender references on birth certificates, soon to be followed by no more designation as father or mother. We’ll devolve into being just vague anthropological units.
So wouldn’t it be more accurate for this goober to reference “God the…whatever”?
Christ said that only those who do the will of the FATHER in heaven will enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 7:21). Committing the crime of false prophesy, calling Him a liar, saying He didn’t say something He said or that He said something He didn’t say, is the definition of being a false prophet. And false prophets don’t come to a good end according to Christ (Matt. 7:23).
Whenever ANY denomination has become so apostate and falsely prophetic that it begins ordaining women, that denomination is in a race to see how quickly it can become completely depraved. Just follow those apostate denominations, and inevitably they’ll begin embracing baby murder, homosexuality and every other abomination under the sun soon thereafter.
Yes He did. Jesus also told parables that are not meant to be taken literally, and also used the common Jewish terms to be understood.
Nevertheless, God is infinite. He is not literally the father, because one cannot be a father without a mother. In fact, if you think about it, a father literally MEANS there is a mother. So logically if God acts as a father, then the same God acts as a mother.
But to call God father and then dismiss the mother is to just break the metaphor - and disregard the evidence that perhaps, just perhaps, Jesus actually implied God the mother BY saying God the father BECAUSE the two are inseparable.
I mean, it’s not like any books from that time acknowledging the divine feminine have been thrown aside as “heretical,” right?
No doubt; Mariolatry is an awful thing. Can’t stand the blasphemy that it is.
Hoss
Check the Hebrew and Greek words for God.....all masculine.
+1
A once fine faithful faith has devolved into the worship of the unknown /non existent god....
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.[a] 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done,[b] on earth as it is in heaven. ......"
So how is God Our Father?
God is a single Father..
…Eph 1; 5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
Gal:4;…5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
If you choose to see no plainly stated allegories and metaphors in your own chosen Bible quotes, I certainly won’t stand in your way. Though I must say, seeing someone who chooses a screen name that describes herself as a mom arguing against God-as-mother is depressing.
Believe what you want. As I said, God is infinite. If you’re happy squashing infinitude into fatherhood, go for it.
A gal shouldn’t have a bishopric, period:
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”- 1st Timothy 3:2
The same scripture calls bats, birds. The same scripture has rules about eating four-legged flying beasts even though none exits. I’m told that in those cases the words should be seen as alegorical but somehow, in other places, words are inerrant. I doubt that.
Leviticus 11:13–19
These are the birds [05775 Pwe ‘owph] you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
The Hebrew word for bird is actually owph which means “fowl/winged creature.”1 The word owph simply means “to fly” or “has a wing.” So, the word includes birds, bats, and even flying insects. The alleged problem appears due to translation of owph as bird. Birds are included in the word owph, but owph is not limited to birds. This shows that translators aren’t always perfect when handling the inerrant Word of God.
https://answersingenesis.org/birds/bats-of-a-feather/
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