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No, El Shaddai does not mean 'God with breasts'
OneNewsNow ^
| February 9, 2018
| Dr. Michael L. Brown
Posted on 02/09/2018 12:32:00 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
TOPICS: Apologetics; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: genderism; liberaltheology
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Really?... Really?
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:32:01 PM PST
by
Sopater
To: Sopater
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:34:55 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
To: Sopater
Time to rewrite Scripture.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:36:55 PM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: Vendome
Best Amy Grant song EVER.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:37:34 PM PST
by
bagster
(Even bad men love their mamas.)
To: Sopater
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.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:43:54 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Sopater
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.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:46:29 PM PST
by
chuckles
To: Sopater
So why aren’t the libs trying to change God’d pronoun from HIM to IT?
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:52:18 PM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(We are getting even more than we voted for!)
To: FatherofFive
“Time to rewrite Scripture.”
Our person, who art in heaven??
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:57:36 PM PST
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: Sopater
So ....
“Our IT who is in heaven...”
Sorry, that just does not work for me.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:58:58 PM PST
by
taxcontrol
(SStupid should hurt)
To: Sopater
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.
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posted on
02/09/2018 12:59:22 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
To: Sopater
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!
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:00:08 PM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: I want the USA back
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.
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:02:42 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: bagster
In a live version of the Amy Grant song she state that this means “God is Great”.
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:08:19 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Sopater; All
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..
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:08:35 PM PST
by
CptnObvious
(uestion her now.)
To: Sopater
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.
To: TheThirdRuffian
It’s also always bugging you to stop and ask directions instead of blundering ahead the way you think you should go...
To: dangus
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.
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:18:19 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Boogieman
True, but the getting fussy and giving you the silent treatment is the giveaway. Clearly female.
To: bagster
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posted on
02/09/2018 1:31:44 PM PST
by
Dagnabitt
(Zero miles of wall completed. Wake me when MAGA starts.)
To: TheThirdRuffian
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.
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