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Gengwall,

It’s in there, the claim that God is male. You have to dig a bit to find it–and I couldn’t stomach the hunt this morning–but it’s there. You would think they know better. But then, you would also think they know that grammatical gender in Greek does not equal biological gender in English, a mistake they make. And you would think that they know that Jesus is equal to the Father, not eternally subordinate.

It just goes to show how important (male) power is to them. Sigh.

Hi, Cheryl,
It’s good to see you back posting!

It’s shocking to me how many believers do think that God is male. I asked a Master’s degree level seminary class I was teaching if that were so and about half of them said yes. But then with so many “experts” saying it’s so, what else would they think?

Second thought: it is inherently illogical to claim that men and women are “spiritually equal human beings” as you quote CBMW, and follow that with the teaching that the woman has to be ruled spiritually by the man. How can equal spiritually before God translate into always subordinate spiritually to men?

I also think it would be interesting to unpack the benefits to men for holding on to this view. They make a lot of unstated assumptions as you are explaining. They also gain a lot of unstated power and privileges (which mostly I think they deny and try to hide).