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| Bishop Rachel Treweek has said the Church of England should not call God 'he' Source: Express/GettyImages |
Christianity is about Christ. For feminists Christianity is about using Christ to promote their own agenda which distorts the nature of love and equality to accommodate their self promoting views on faith and religion.
The Express reports: 'God is NOT a man: First female bishop says calling God “He” is a growing problem'.
It may be a growing problem for bishop Treweek and her trendy feminist supporters but not for the majority of Christians or for Christ Himself who taught His disciples to pray: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
Hallowed means nothing to these Entryists who lacked the integrity to form their own church. Instead they have politicised Western Anglicanism. They have mercilessly used the Anglican Church as a playing field on which only they can win.
So deep has the rot become that they have the support of limp bishops who have sacrificed spirituality on the altar of secularism.
In 2015 the BBC News Magazine published an article Why is God not female? The question keeps coming back. As with the ordination of woman and same sex marriage in church, the arguments are constantly regurgitated, pressing people outside the church who have no understanding of the theological implications of their actions to force change inside the church.
Is it any surprise that people get fed up, leaving the Church in crisis as only 2% of young adults identify as C of E.
It may be a growing problem for bishop Treweek and her trendy feminist supporters but not for the majority of Christians or for Christ Himself who taught His disciples to pray: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
Hallowed means nothing to these Entryists who lacked the integrity to form their own church. Instead they have politicised Western Anglicanism. They have mercilessly used the Anglican Church as a playing field on which only they can win.
So deep has the rot become that they have the support of limp bishops who have sacrificed spirituality on the altar of secularism.
In 2015 the BBC News Magazine published an article Why is God not female? The question keeps coming back. As with the ordination of woman and same sex marriage in church, the arguments are constantly regurgitated, pressing people outside the church who have no understanding of the theological implications of their actions to force change inside the church.
Is it any surprise that people get fed up, leaving the Church in crisis as only 2% of young adults identify as C of E.
The Church in Wales too has become a leaking bucket, rusted by feminists. Their duplicity in getting the Governing Body to agree a Code of Practice which furthered the feminist cause while shutting out many faithful, cradle Anglicans can be judged by its fruits. The two women bishops appointed have proved to be a complete waste of spiritual space as they constantly drive forward their feminist agenda.
The ugly face of feminism in the church owes much of its success to Women and the Church (WATCH).
From my entry Women in the Church:
"Women bishops would humanise the priesthood" said the then Archbishop of Canterbury in 2011. Dr Rowan Williams warned the Church hierarchy to prepare for the “culture change” that would come with the “full inclusion” of women. Not the full inclusion the Archbishop would have expected. Instead it is inclusion to the exclusion of anyone with views not in accord with Women and the Church (WATCH) and their fellow travellers as highlighted by the "Sheffield controversy".
A culture change indeed. and not for the better so far as mother Church is concerned.
And to think that saintly Wifred Asquith was sometime bishop of Gloucester! The former anglo catholic parish of St Paul's, Gloucester, now has two women in charge. The founders, not to mention John Keble and his associates, must be turning in their graves. Wait for the next episode from Joanna and June.
ReplyDeleteRob
PP, It is notable that Bishop Rachel, has certainly brought a number of hidden social ills into the light of day. She is by far a women with a deep spirituality, despite her sex!
ReplyDeleteAs for the sexualising of God, surely we can never know the truth, God is mysterious, so we mere humans have to deal with it. God will always use the lesser vessels, Fe/males doesn't really feature.
So long as that vessel points the sinner to the Saviour, in our fallible human blundering, we have added to the Kingdom. Let God be God, too awesome for words and certainly not in need of a church at loggerheads. Revelation's warn us that God will remove His lampstand from such a Church, we need to heed the warning signs! Ask why mega Churches in some of our cities in Wales thrive with huge congregations each Sunday when the CiW parish it's in, is part of a large mission area, one cleric, and a handful of worshipers across the whole.
Are we so caught up in doctrinal arguments that we forget the real message.
It cannot be without significance that the Bible consistently refers to God as Father. The mother images exist but are exceptions. The masculine image is better for representing creating out of nothing and judgement.
DeleteRob
Psephizo's blog entry 'Should we stop referring to God as ‘he’?' makes interesting reading.
DeletePP you mentioned mega churches thriving.....but they all have in common their dedication to the bible......and none of them refer to God as She!!!
DeleteAB: I have read the blog entry but I shan't be making him my mentor! A typical academic! Some of the instances he adduces that supposedly support the deity's femininity are far fetched. The woman searching for the lost coin, for example, does not do so, without special pleading. And that is what the liberal advocates do all the time: argue tendentiously. Most of the biblical images are stubbornly and intentional!y masculine. Needless to say, that does not make God a male.
ReplyDeleteRob
Maybe today's 'sermon' is in the Telegraph: Why Western Christianity has a death wish https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/why-western-christianity-has-a-death-wish-20180918-p504df.html via @smh
ReplyDeleteThe ordination of women was the first step on a slippery slope towards a very changed Anglican Church, a change which is now irrevocable.
ReplyDeleteIt can't be a coincidence that the change has paralleled female 'equality' in the rest of society. The Church has followed a secular trend and put aside its traditions to accommodate feminism, LGBT , gender neutrality and soon Gay marriage.
If these changes work for the good of the Church's mission and the pews start to fill up again with the faithful, then there can be no doubt that progress has been made for the Church as an Institution. However, the present indications are that the attempts at relevance, inclusion and indiscriminate 'love' are falling flat on their faces.
Radd
Radd, you mean get them in at any cost? Striptease or boxing, perhaps? (We already have circle/liturgical dancing, or whatever it's called. Also African drums in cathedrals.)
DeleteRob
It's called the theology of the bedpan Radd.
DeleteIt may have not have crossed AB's radar yet that Michael Sadgrove, the former Dean of Durham, came (at June's request) to speak to her clergy about wisdom, yesterday. It's obviously in short supply in the Llandaff Diocese. Sadgrove's reflections on the day are a telling commentary on the agenda of Barry the Golfer, Herself of Abergwyli, Peggy the Pilate, June and the rest of them.
ReplyDelete"I could have spoken at length about the danger, as I see it, of the romantic idea of the minister-as-hero: always energetically engaged in some grand project (and being remembered for it), fixated by strategic plans, smart objectives and measurable outputs. It plays into the excitable culture which it's easy for the church to emulate (as it already has in some quarters), like Paul's Athenians loving anything that is new and different and that arouses us from our unacknowledged boredom with religion. I caricature of course. I'm all for thinking and planning ambitiously for the sake of the gospel. My concern is how the big, the dramatic and the busy can be better grounded in a proper Christian humility, better rooted in a contemplative, ancient and holy wisdom. I want to ask how we all learn to become, as the good jargon has it, reflective practitioners in the spirit of our great Anglican forebears."
Quite so, Mr Dean. Quite so.