No, El Shaddai does not mean 'God with breasts'

OneNewsNow ^ | February 9, 2018 | Dr. Michael L. Brown

[Sopater]

As reported earlier this week, the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Washington, DC, passed a resolution to stop using masculine pronouns for God in future updates to its Book of Common Prayer.

The resolution to "avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God" was passed quickly by delegates to the Diocese's 123rd Convention.

To be sure, this is not the first group to move in the direction of "gender-inclusive" language when it comes to the deity.

[Sopater]

Really?... Really?

[Vendome]

So Jesus was a eunuch?

[FatherofFive]

Time to rewrite Scripture.

[bagster]

Best Amy Grant song EVER.

[dangus]

From Wikipedia’s “El Shaddai” entry:

‘According to Ernst Knauf, “El Shaddai” means “God of the Wilderness” and originally would not have had a doubled “d”.’

So, if it did mean, ‘god with breasts,’ they’re not THAT big.

[chuckles]

Why can’t these people hear how moronic they sound? Back in my day, a person had to think about what they said because someone may pop them in the nose if it was particularly offensive. You couldn’t get a job if you were too weird. You certainly couldn’t be clergy thinking like this. They may need an exorcism.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So why aren’t the libs trying to change God’d pronoun from HIM to IT?

[litehaus]

“Time to rewrite Scripture.”

Our person, who art in heaven??

[taxcontrol]

So ....

“Our IT who is in heaven...”

Sorry, that just does not work for me.

[I want the USA back]

The pronouns in the Greek and Hebrew Bible are masculine. God has no sex, and so gendered pronouns do not apply to God. but we are humans, and use gendered pronouns. The writers of the Bible used gendered pronouns, and so do we.

[left that other site]

Thank you for posting this article. I too, have heard that "teaching" and it NEVER sat right with me, even from a "respected" Evangelical source. I tried looking it up myself, and found that the word for breast in Hebrew was indeed shad, which made this "teaching" even more troubling. The furthest I was willing to go with it was that it translated to "The All-Sufficient God", which took into consideration God's Provision. The article you posted shed a lot more light on the origin of the Name.

My argument has always been nearly the same as the author of your article. God is Who He SAYS He Is, and not what one would LIKE Him to be! He has chosen to reveal Himself in His Word as Father, and Jesus chose to become Incarnate as a Boy, born and circumcised under the Jewish Law, in Bethlehem of Judea in the First Century.

If He constantly used male pronouns to refer to Himself in His Word, and in just ONE instance in One Name He has shared, He chooses to describe Himself with a word that rhymes with a Hebrew word for breast...what of it? That's His choice, but it doesn't change Who He is.

PS. The "Evangelical" pastor who taught that wrong thing has since betrayed and destroyed his church with his ambitious narcissism. What is left of the devastated congregation continues to tough it out in a storefront, while he has retired out west somewhere.

The only good thing is that some famous rock stars have a studio in the same strip mall, and sometimes pop in to hear the Gospel. And it's NOT a feminist/liberation/post-modern Gospel either!

[NorthMountain]

God has no sex

But He revealed Himself to us as Father and Son and Spirit; when The Son became Man and dwelt among us, He did so as a true man: a male human being.

[Revel]

In a live version of the Amy Grant song she state that this means “God is Great”.

[CptnObvious]

Leave any church that does not believe in the Inerrancy(as written by the authors) and the Authority of Scripture for Corruption. Worse is soon to follow for such..

[TheThirdRuffian]

Pretty sure the Holy Spirit is the female aspect of God:

1. It told the prophets what to say.
2. It tells God what you really meant to say.
3. It never stops groaning.
4. It gets fussy and leaves at the least provocation.

[Boogieman]

It’s also always bugging you to stop and ask directions instead of blundering ahead the way you think you should go...

[Revel]

NeverMind... She says it means “God Almighty”.

Amy Grant - Age to Age: in concert (1982) Full concert
Video of concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itmud2fMNMM

At the 20:29 time mark.

This was one of the best live Christian concert Albums ever.

[TheThirdRuffian]

True, but the getting fussy and giving you the silent treatment is the giveaway. Clearly female.

[Dagnabitt]

Eunuch Boy - The Descendents (audio only - but punk rock word choices)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogdrdrvF6I

[Duke of Milan]

John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is male, HE. If you are being sarcastic, fine, if not you are deceiving people.