Well lets take a look something, "Yep" we are in the Christian Controversial Theology forum
. The Hebrew were polytheistic until Moses, after Moses there was only one God. The God of Abraham was El and He was the Father of the Heavenly family. The God that Moses met on the mount was YHWH and after that incounter Moses declared YHVH the only God to be worshipped. "Let us create man in our image." Mankind does not mean men only. "Man" is the species that we belong to as human beings.
Circle Christ, you are not exactly wrong with what you have posted in this topic
. But the problem is that, you are up against scripture. And as a Nicene Christian, one believes that the Holy Bible is the word of God in a total sense. Of course, what the word of God actually says in a total sense is constantly being argued. Whatever happened before today that may or may not have affected the out come of what is now considered the word of God by Nicene Christians does not matter if one is a Nicene Christian. And scripture does indicate that wives should obey their husbands and that man came first with woman being an after thought that was created to be a helper to man. Otherwise God created man twice. The first time man and woman in the image of God/Us and the second time because He needed somebody to take care of the garden that He had created to keep the plants and animals of the field in. A garden that needed to be irrigated because the rest of the planet was watered by dew/mist. And from this garden caretaker and the helper that was created from his rib the Hebrew are closely decended from through Noah and Abraham with God the Creator being their God.
But if you are a Nicene Christan the above is not believed so therefore can not be true. Circle Christ you are up against the word of God as understood by the Nicene Christians and that the word of God does not support what your post has presented. But we are in Controversial Christian Theology where non Nicene ideas/concepts can be discussed and those that believe in non Nicene ideas/concepts can be out reached to.
I'm a Jesus Christ Christian. I don't know any Christian that puts Nicea before Christ. Therefore the outreach if there is any needed should be toward those who call themselves Nicene Christians. Likely so because they have little understanding of Nicea's place in history.
However, that's not what is being discussed here. And apparently from what you're trying to say, you believe women are lesser beings to men. Sexism by definition is one sex, typically male, having authority and control over the opposite sex; women.
When God is a spirit and without gender, one sex is not then superior to the other under the authority of a sexless God.
The passages in God's word prove that a male god is a man made concept contrary to the new covenant Jesus brought to the world. And that the male god image set by the Hebrews was a cultural one due to the earthly Patriarchy they had in place.
Jesus came to save all people in the world not just males. John 3:16 says about Salvation and to whom it is offered,
whosoever.... It does not state, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that any male who believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
Women and men wept for Jesus at the altar he died upon to save the whole world. The cross. There was no divide between the sexes there. All were one in the eyes of Christ. Because he came to save all people. Not, as the Jewish tradition he was born into, would have warranted had he followed that, his dying to save the men of the world so that they could lead the women in their lives to him.
Galatians 3:26-28. We are all one in Jesus Christ. There is no free person, no slave, no Greek, no Jew, no Arab, no difference in who Jesus died for and whom are loved by God eternally.
John 1:29. Jesus was the Lamb who took away the sins of the world. Not the man's world. The world.
A woman was the one who found Jesus' tomb empty. Women were prophetesses in the Bible. What we'd call pastors today. Women walked with the Disciples and Jesus in his ministry. Jesus took the woman whom he saved from stoning with him into his company when he preached his truth to those who would receive him.
Jesus preached against religion. Against sexism. And now over 2000 years later those who follow his spirit argue sexism is a factor?And that scripture backs it up?
No.
But to each their own. Those who believe sexism is the right path to take following the spirit that gave itself to the world in the form of a person whom we could see and relate to, who died after suffering unimaginable torture in order to write a new covenant with his blood, and save the world from their sins if they only believed in him, believe now that sexism, which is what is the heart of what is argued here by some men, is holy? Is righteous? Is of God? Is of Jesus and his ministry?
Jesus died to save the world and reiterate the sexism that existed in the Hebrew culture in his day?
And to state that in a new manner, in a new thread, the inroad is asking
if people have neutered God? in the name of women's rights? And what is argued against scripture that say absolutely not, is a mindset that says it must be, yes! Instead.
I clearly can't reason with that. Proof is in the writing of retorts that argue against scripture and reason in order to promote the notion that God is a Chauvinist.
I can't argue with the intention that seeks to reiterate God has been neutered so that women could feel equal to men in all things because that and according to Jesus' own example when women traveled with his Disciples, which would not happen in his time due to that cultural gender divide, because those type teachings by men are unholy.
I'll step out now and pray for those who continue their pursuit of arguing to persuade Christian's the OP answer must be,
yes. Even though Jesus never said it was. In fact, he died to prove it was not true. And change the culture of the time in the process when that is what was intended to free all people from their sins.
Matthew 7
