Posted on 12/01/2024 11:47:30 AM PST by Morgana
Listen to this trash from these hellbound heathens pretending to be a church—a “non-binary God” with plural pronouns, as if the One who thundered from Sinai is now taking cues from Twitter pronoun bios. They repeat this “creed” to their “non-binary” “Jesus.”
I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural.
I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads, and saw everyone as a sibling child of God.
I believe in the rainbow spirit who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity…
Apparently, His mission wasn’t to save sinners but to model runway couture in a “fabulous tunic,” complete with the progressive-approved backstory of “two dads.” Then they drag in the Holy Spirit, rebranding Him as some “rainbow spirit,” smashing God’s radiant holiness into a cheap prism of cultural diversity.
This isn’t just bad theology—it’s dumpster-tier heresy wrapped in the language of activists who think the gospel needed a social justice remix.
(Excerpt) Read more at disntr.com ...
What is scary is the kids growing up believing this. It will be hard to teach them the truth, they will think we are "haters" or worse.
I don’t have a problem with the idea that God Himself may not be ‘male’ as we mean it, but transcendent of human biology. (The pronoun in the Bible seems symbolic of the ultimate progenitor of Creation.)
My problem would be with people who would use the idea to push something unnatural and unhealthy for humans.
Now do Allah.
If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. Maranatha!
I’ve like to hear them say that about Mohammed in a crowded mosque.
Coward Sissies
Shouldn't the Christian God be properly characterized as trinary?
Regards,
They should not misgender God.
I don’t think God has a sex (gender is a grammatical term).
The pronoun is for our limited human understanding.
“I don’t think God has a sex (gender is a grammatical term). The pronoun is for our limited human understanding.”
God identifies Himself with more than just pronouns. Most of His attributes revealed in scripture are masculine. I can think of one exception where Jesus likens himself to the care of a mother hen for its chicks.
But God is expressed as the Father, and the Son, which are both masculine. Even the Holy Spirit is sometimes described with “He,” “Him,” or “His”. The church is the bride of Christ, which is feminine.
Invoking God with feminine pronouns is a renunciation of Biblical theology.
It is not about whether God has a biological sex, but about God creating us in His image. The man/male is in the image of God, and the female (human) is in the image of the man/male. Yes, our human understanding is limited, but that is all the more reason not to stray away from what has been revealed and make theological speculations with no basis in reality.
Colossians 2:18 NKJV
Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.
By the way, feminine attributes ascribed to God have been a hallmark of idolatry ever since men have fashioned gods in their own image. There are lots of female deities in non-Christian religions. It’s been that way since the beginning of history.
If the real nature of God were presented to ancient people plainly (if that were even possible) they would have no reference for it and it would make no sense. We couldn’t even understand it today. (Can you really claim to understand God, what God is, etc.?)
It’s necessarily been ‘dumbed down’ for our frail human understanding.
“If the real nature of God were presented to ancient people plainly (if that were even possible) they would have no reference for it and it would make no sense... It’s necessarily been ‘dumbed down’ for our frail human understanding.”
Perhaps, but this does not negate that there are true and false statements about God. There is true worship. There is idolatry. There is praise. There is blasphemy.
We must follow what God says about Himself and accept that it is true. We cannot just make up stuff and expect God to mold Himself to whatever people want Him to be.
And being unable to comprehend an infinite God does not excuse us from pursuing the knowledge of God to the extent He enables us to know Him.
Interestingly, God describing Himself in the masculine in the context of Him calling Himself “Father” is an essential tenet of the Christian faith. Islam denies that God is anyone’s father and that Jesus is His Son.
John 8:19 NKJV
Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”
John 14:6-11 NKJV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.”
John 17:3 NKJV
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Many scriptures show that mere humans can know God because He enables us to know Him by revealing Himself to us. The real problem of knowing God is more of a moral and spiritual issue than an intellectual one:
Romans 1:18-23 NKJV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
I’m not concerned with how other people think and believe. I’m just glad that they believe in God.
For myself, I can’t see God in terms of ‘male’ or ‘female’. As I’ve said before, to me God transcends our human concepts of sex.
If I think of male and female more in the sense of physical forces - positive and negative - I can believe that God contains both, along with containing everything else in Creation.
“I’m not concerned with how other people think and believe. I’m just glad that they believe in God.”
I had a conversation related to this today. And the other person has rejected God (but still has some openness) because he is bitter toward God. I pointed out that AA and similar 12-step programs are predicated on a belief in God or a higher power. And these programs are successful at helping people with addiction. And other programs without God seem very likely to fail. So I agree that a belief in God generally is beneficial.
But what you posted has nothing to do with believing what God reveals about Himself in the Bible. It’s not about what you can figure out or feel. It’s about whether you believe what the Bible says.
Is Jesus the Son of God? Is God His Father?
I’m not sure anyone can derive these things apart from them being revealed by God through the Bible (or possibly directly if He so chose).
I say these things because I’ve encountered cultists who went knocking on doors to enlighten people that the Bible talks not only about God the Father but also about Mother God. To to blunt, the Bible does not say anything like this at all. It is just frankly false teaching. And it’s no different than the “non-binary” claims this article is about.
Jesus said in the last days many false prophets, false teachers, and false messiahs would come in His name. And so it is.
I take many things in the Bible to be allegorical or symbolical. I don’t take everything in it literally.
What I take from the Bible is important to me, enlightening and beneficial; but I don’t want to argue theological points in this thread beyond what I’ve already said regarding the ‘sex’ of God.
Thanks for the conversation.
“Thanks for the conversation.”
Likewise, FRiend.
So you’re already halfway there.
That’s one way of getting a ticket to Hell.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 KJV
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