teknomom

Michael, you must be on the TBC mailing list too!

This only shows once again how patriarchy drives people to error, on both sides of the issue. Had male supremacy not been taught in the churches for so long, women would not have something to rebel against. Neither extreme is right. God is neither male nor female, but in declaring him male, comps have caused some women to declare a female deity too. But a female deity is no worse than a male one, since in several places God says plainly, “I am not a man”. Here again, the assumption that grammatical gender = biological gender (which is pretty much only true of English) leads to belief that God must be either male or female, when in fact he is neither.

In fact, if God must be male, then he must have a female counterpart. One necessitates the other!

I’m sure the comps would come back with, “We don’t say God is male, but masculine.” And I would respond, “What is the practical difference? Can masculinity be separated from maleness? If a woman acts in a way you declare to be “masculine”, is she more like God? And where are these lines drawn in the scriptures? Does not God have ‘feminine’ qualities too, like compassion, nurturing spiritual children, protecting his people as a mother hen, etc.?”