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Nancy’s Book in Hungary
As some of you know, I am on the board of the Joint Eastern European Project (JEEP), and they have recently established Stauros Press, a publishing house dedicated to getting good Reformed books into print in Eastern Europe. One of those good books is Nancy’s book Fruit of Her Hands, and here is a cover image.
If anybody wants to help out this valuable work, it would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be made here.
Look for the logo below—Stauros Press has a lot of books on the runway.
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Best in life: seeing Christians totally freak out when using non-masculine pronouns for god…to see them triggered for saying she instead of he. God has no gender, so what’s the fuss?
Several reasons, but primarily because Jesus addressed God as ‘Father’ in all four of the Gospels.
Jesus also took care of women, widows, orphans, immigrants, the least of these, saying everything boiled down to love God, love others. Did Jesus write down the things he said and put them into the Bible? Nope. Men did…patriarchal systems breed patriarchal descriptions. God created male and female in their image (god in three, am I right?)…so it would be logical for god to contain ALL genders within their “person”, negating the need to use specific personal pronouns except for individual preference (or cultural norms). Again, god has no gender…just words to describe her/him/them.
Do you believe the things men wrote down and put in the Bible are true, accurate, and reliable? If not, how do you know Jesus took care of women, orphans, immigrants, and the least of these, and how do you know what He said?
Exactly my point. We don’t know for sure what parts the male authors fabricated or exaggerated or took liberty with, and I can hold this while still believing the Bible is inspired by god…that doesn’t make it a how-to book, historically accurate or without questions, though. If the Bible says god made male and female in his image, wouldn’t it then entail god being both male and female and anything in between (non-gendered perhaps), and the use of he for god is a human/social construct? God is not male…if you believe otherwise, I’d love to hear your rationale.
The same Bible that tells God made male and female in his image tells God made male and female in his image. Notice you didn’t put it differently yourself. However, if you think some parts of the Bible were fabricated by men and you don’t know for sure which ones then you don’t know the part about God making male and female in his image wasn’t one of the fabricated parts.
Uh, and you don’t know exactly or definitively that god is male. Nobody knows exactly what Jesus said; nobody knows exactly gods gender; did Job actually go through everything that the Bible says, or was it allegorical; did Jonah actually live inside the belly of a fish; did god actually wipe out whole civilizations, all men, women, children and animals (and you don’t have a problem with with an all-loving god who did that). Why are there so many interpretations of the Bible, sects, denominations, schisms and disagreements? Because people are involved, and each of us has a lens in… Read more »
Your questions are red herrings, whether you intend them that way or not.
In any case, if you believe we can’t really know, there was no use in your stating “Jesus also took care of women, widows, orphans, immigrants, the least of these, saying everything boiled down to love God, love others. You contradict yourself when you make such a claim but then say “Nobody knows exactly what Jesus said”.
Thanks for pointing that out! So good to know:) Here’s some more questions…again, just pointing out that there is uncertainty, and we can’t really know everything. If god made Adam and Eve, was incest necessary to populate the earth? How about treating women as property? How can an all-perfect, all-knowing god be jealous? How can an all-loving god condemn some to eternal torment and damnation (as a parent, this is unfathomable, to select one or two of my three kids to love and “save” but essentially discard the others)? Why did polygamy stop being acceptable? We should ask questions, and… Read more »
Again, red herrings. “We should ask questions..” Not really, if the Bible was just made up by men and we can arrive at no certainty of any truth by reading and discussing it. It is irrelevant to the real world. You might as well ask why Spock had pointy ears and why Superman had a cape.
You like dodgeball? Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge…
On the contrary, I’m the one staying focused on point.
Gods not male, that’s the point. You haven’t said anything to support the maleness of god except for the language that people have used…and even that varies place to place and time to time.
If that is the point, stick to it. I agree, I haven’t said anything to support referring to God in the masculine pronoun – except to point out the support that exists, the Biblical references to God in the masculine pronoun. That is enough. I believe the Bible is divinely inspired revelation and not just the made up ideas of men. You do not. Since you do not it is nonsensical of you to reference the Bible in support of any truth claim you might make. That also is the point.
Now how do you know God is not male?
Because the Bible said god made male and female in her/his/their image…that is enough
No, because the Bible does NOT say in her/his/their image.
No, because even if the Bible did say that, you would be unable to say if it was the truth or fabricated by men.
So god told the authors of the Bible that she was a he? How did they know?!?!
You don’t get to cherry pick doctrines a verses from the Bible and use them for your argument, while discrediting other parts of scripture because they’re written by men. O, and Jesus didn’t take care of immigrants. I mean I’m sure if there was one in need he would have cared for them as he did others, but you’re just injecting your intersectionality virus into an ancient text my friend.