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Thank you for posting this article. I too, have heard that "teaching" and it NEVER sat right with me, even from a "respected" Evangelical source. I tried looking it up myself, and found that the word for breast in Hebrew was indeed shad, which made this "teaching" even more troubling. The furthest I was willing to go with it was that it translated to "The All-Sufficient God", which took into consideration God's Provision. The article you posted shed a lot more light on the origin of the Name.

My argument has always been nearly the same as the author of your article. God is Who He SAYS He Is, and not what one would LIKE Him to be! He has chosen to reveal Himself in His Word as Father, and Jesus chose to become Incarnate as a Boy, born and circumcised under the Jewish Law, in Bethlehem of Judea in the First Century.

If He constantly used male pronouns to refer to Himself in His Word, and in just ONE instance in One Name He has shared, He chooses to describe Himself with a word that rhymes with a Hebrew word for breast...what of it? That's His choice, but it doesn't change Who He is.

PS. The "Evangelical" pastor who taught that wrong thing has since betrayed and destroyed his church with his ambitious narcissism. What is left of the devastated congregation continues to tough it out in a storefront, while he has retired out west somewhere.

The only good thing is that some famous rock stars have a studio in the same strip mall, and sometimes pop in to hear the Gospel. And it's NOT a feminist/liberation/post-modern Gospel either!

God is Who He SAYS He Is, and not what one would LIKE Him to be!

That, sir, is good theology.

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.”