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No, El Shaddai does not mean 'God with breasts'
OneNewsNow ^ | February 9, 2018 | Dr. Michael L. Brown

Posted on 02/09/2018 12:32:00 PM PST by Sopater

As reported earlier this week, the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Washington, DC, passed a resolution to stop using masculine pronouns for God in future updates to its Book of Common Prayer.

The resolution to "avoid the use of gendered pronouns for God" was passed quickly by delegates to the Diocese's 123rd Convention.

To be sure, this is not the first group to move in the direction of "gender-inclusive" language when it comes to the deity.

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: genderism; liberaltheology
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To: Sopater

He, and i mean “He”, is not going to be pleased.


21 posted on 02/09/2018 1:51:41 PM PST by exnavy (America: love it or leave it.)
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To: Sopater

So if God is gender-nominative, then how will we describe “it girls” of yore? Will they be called “It its?”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2016/10/it-girls-of-every-decade


22 posted on 02/09/2018 1:53:27 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: TheThirdRuffian

This is not funny, and yet I can’t help laughing.


23 posted on 02/09/2018 1:54:46 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: I want the USA back

I am given to believe JESUS is a male. JESUS is God with us ... ergo, GOD, HE, is my Savior. Don’t know who or what is the savior for these blasphemous freaks.


24 posted on 02/09/2018 1:55:34 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Sopater

I had someone tell me that it meant *Breasted one*.

I thought that was odd, and just kind of blew it off.


25 posted on 02/09/2018 2:07:37 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: left that other site

26 posted on 02/09/2018 2:07:50 PM PST by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Sopater

El shaddai means “God of the heavens.”


27 posted on 02/09/2018 2:30:55 PM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: left that other site
God is Who He SAYS He Is, and not what one would LIKE Him to be!

That, sir, is good theology.
28 posted on 02/09/2018 2:33:17 PM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: metmom

They are wrong in their interpretation of the word, but I imagine that in attempting to ascribe a physical appearance to a spiritual being, God would have a breast:

“...and having on the breastplate of righteousness...”

Of course He has no physical body, in spite of Jesus sitting at His right hand! (I’m guessing that the term “right hand” has a deeper meaning, more of a position of authority, rather than any physical thing.)

I love learning about the deeper meaning of the Greek words. I asked my pastor about the verse where the leper went to Jesus to be healed, and it said Jesus was indignant - and then healed him.

The pastor didn’t know if it was the same word in the verse I asked him about, but he said it is probably from the Greek word “????? (I don’t recall now)”, which translates to “makes me sick”. Jesus could have been so upset at the leper’s plight that he felt it in his gut, and healed him.

Or he said - Jesus may have looked at the Pharisees that ignored the leper, and looking at them with the look of “YOU make me sick!!” and then healing the leper.


29 posted on 02/09/2018 2:52:36 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: Sopater

WE DON’T NEED Gender inclusive language. Sick of tearing apart our vocabulary for queer reasons.


30 posted on 02/09/2018 2:56:41 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: MHGinTN

Well said. This nonsense is simply Communists destroying Christianity. The Pope is part of the problem, if not the instigator of it all.


31 posted on 02/09/2018 3:00:43 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Duke of Milan

If you can’t tell I am joking, I advise you to acquire a personality.


32 posted on 02/09/2018 3:07:40 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: boatbums

Amen! :-)


33 posted on 02/09/2018 3:30:19 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Sopater

Thanks. :-)


34 posted on 02/09/2018 3:31:12 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Also, John lay on Jesus’ breast and no that wasn’t gay, it was extreme brother. It doesn’t need to mean female! It can mean “I care from the heart.”


35 posted on 02/09/2018 5:09:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Sopater
So - "God the Father" is out.

"Son of Man" is out.

And what will they call the Holy Trinity - "Parent/Child/Holy Ghost"?????

36 posted on 02/10/2018 2:55:42 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: Sopater
The Trinity What Trinity?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3538929/posts

Hear ye! hear ye! Read all about it...

37 posted on 02/13/2018 4:27:46 PM PST by Jeremiah Jr (EL CHI)
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