Aramaic has very few translation problems. It is unique in it's form and style and is almost in the form of poetry.
God, the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit, are affirmed in the masculine. As Creator, He created male and female in his creation ( Genesis 1:26-27. The Lord Jesus Christ clearly affirms the 3 Persons of God as masculine in John 14 & John 15.
It is within creation that life is continued from the feminine in humanity ( for ex. Proverbs 9). It is the Mother of God we honor as the birth giver of our Lord but that is from God deeming her worthy to give birth to His only begotten Son and His Spirit ( Luke 1:26-35). It is the ever Virgin Mary the Lord on the cross told his apostle ( & really all of us) to behold as our mother ( John 19:25-27). She holds the highest honor in creation but she is still created ( Revelation 12). Still,
she was created and we worship the Creator not the creation.
The book of Enoch was held as scripture by many early Christians & parts of it remained regarded as truths. A major example is the Trinity in chapter 48 which clearly conforms to Daniel 7:9-10. The persons of God are in the masculine.
see: First Enoch - Chapter XLVIII / Chapter 48 - Book of 1 Enoch, Parallel 1912 Charles & 1883 Laurence, Pseudepigrapha Online Parallel Bible Study
Much of the gobbledygook in this thread is just that.
God is actually also the Mother. We shouldn’t rob God of Its full divinity by exclusively masculinizing It. God is all-inclusive.
I don’t know if there were translation or transmission problems, but we don’t know the exact words of Jesus, they haven’t survived. I’m not so sure Jesus called God the Father
As Jesus is quoted, his words have been translated back into Aramaic. When scholars do that they take on the cadance and style that is common to Aramaic. In other words, the quotes seem to have been Aramaic that has been translated, and not originally Greek or Hebrew. And Aramaic has a style like a poem or a song that is difficult to mistranslate or alter by accident.I don’t know if there were translation or transmission problems, but we don’t know the exact words of Jesus, they haven’t survived. I’m not so sure Jesus called God the Father
Hello.
I grew up an atheist, and in my language we don’t have “he/she” pronouns, everything is “it”. Even though I’ve been studying Christianity for many years, until today it’s very odd to me that there is God the Father, but there is no God the Mother. There is God the Son, even God the Ghost, but no Mother. If we have a single dad with a child, we know at least at some point a mother was involved. It’s quite strange that spiritually, femininity is excluded. We know that in life, without the feminine component there’s no continuation of life, there’s no care and no nurturing. When my drunk athletic dad was angry and severely whooping us kids with his belt, our mom would sometimes jump and cover us with her body and maybe saving our lives, who knows. It was intense. The love of a mother is how I understand what true love is. Forever etched on my heart. How can God have only the masculine side? Shouldn’t God be androgynous? A He and a She at the same time? The Mother and the Father? I read in one book on early Western Semitic beliefs that the supreme God El at one point had a wife Astarte, later edited out by the male editors of the Tanakh. Don’t you think erasing the feminine part of God is quite erroneous?
Hello.
I grew up an atheist, and in my language we don’t have “he/she” pronouns, everything is “it”. Even though I’ve been studying Christianity for many years, until today it’s very odd to me that there is God the Father, but there is no God the Mother.
If we have a single dad with a child, we know at least at some point a mother was involved. It’s quite strange that spiritually, femininity is excluded.
We know that in life, without the feminine component there’s no continuation of life, there’s no care and no nurturing. When my drunk athletic dad was angry and severely whooping us kids with his belt, our mom would sometimes jump and cover us with her body and maybe saving our lives, who knows. It was intense.
The love of a mother is how I understand what true love is.
I don’t know if there were translation or transmission problems, but we don’t know the exact words of Jesus, they haven’t survived. I’m not so sure Jesus called God the Father
We know what language Jesus spoke, it was Aramaic.
No.If anything, God is the Mother - Creator, Giver of Life, Loving, Caring, Nurturing. Not the Father for sure
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