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Just further detailing how England went from an Empire the sun never set on, to a third rate country hamstrung in wokeness ,A quick slide into error, false teaching, and, eventually, apostasy is happening to so many denominations right before our eyes.
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you must be aware how many times Jesus refers to God the " Father " ?Actually, unless you are a Mormon, God does not have a gender. We default to calling "Him", but no gender can wholly encompass the reality of our Creator.
God is a pure spirit, which means that He has no physical body. God is neither male nor female, neither masculine nor feminine. God has no gender. Human beings and animals have gender since we do not reproduce asexually. Males and females need their counterpart in order to reproduce. Men and women complement one another since neither gender possesses the fullness of humanity. We are incomplete on our own. We need others. God does not need anyone. God is perfect and is the fullness of being.
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Yeah, language limits our understanding. God has no gender; gender is a biological and psychological limitation we all have. We speak of God "repenting" but God, being omnipotent sees all the results of His actions and cannot repent anything. I'm guessing the fact that you haven't gotten to that realization means you haven't really spent much time and Bible study understanding the issue.you must be aware how many times Jesus refers to God the " Father " ?
So in your study of the Bible , if Jesus did not really mean "Father" why did He use the word so repetitively ?Yeah, language limits our understanding. God has no gender; gender is a biological and psychological limitation we all have. We speak of God "repenting" but God, being omnipotent sees all the results of His actions and cannot repent anything. I'm guessing the fact that you haven't gotten to that realization means you haven't really spent much time and Bible study understanding the issue.
For the same reason that the Bible says God repents, when in fact He cannot repent anything. It was the closest word to what an eternal omniscient being feels in such a case. Being a spirit, and having no material body, God has no gender.So in your study of the Bible , if Jesus did not really mean "Father" why did He use the word so repetitively ?
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How is an unborn baby referred to?For me when Jesus says "Father" He means Father.
He could have easily chosen a different word that reflected the truth, if God was not His Father.
BTW, Satan has no human body either , being a spiritual creation.
Yet Jesus refers to him as being a HE & the "FATHER" of those who do his will:
Jhn 8:44
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,"
Why does not Jesus just say " Ye are of the devil, and the lusts of the devil ye will do" if as you say a spirit is neither male or female ?
Why the deliberate use of a term that has no basis in truth ?
Is this a characteristic technique of the Christ that you know.
State the case accurately requires very little effort .
There must be a reason for Jesus using such blatant deception ?
Father is a parent.For me when Jesus says "Father" He means Father.
He could have easily chosen a different word that reflected the truth, if God was not His Father.
BTW, Satan has no human body either , being a spiritual creation.
Yet Jesus refers to him as being a HE & the "FATHER" of those who do his will:
Jhn 8:44
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,"
Why does not Jesus just say " Ye are of the devil, and the lusts of the devil ye will do" if as you say a spirit is neither male or female ?
Why the deliberate use of a term that has no basis in truth ?
Is this a characteristic technique of the Christ that you know.
State the case accurately requires very little effort .
There must be a reason for Jesus using such blatant deception ?
And in the case of this Jesus who is the Christ the relationship goes further, much deeper, beyond human understanding.Father is a parent.
A creator.
An authority figure.
A guide.
Jesus was with the Father from the beginning.And in the case of this Jesus who is the Christ the relationship goes further, much deeper, beyond human understanding.
Jesus says that He and His Father are ONE.
No person who as ever lived, except Jesus, has ever been able to say this in truth.
And no scholar, professor or any person can know exactly what this means to define it .
Jhn 10:30
I and my Father are one.
That's the issue; we have no adequate word for a relationship to an eternal and omnipotent spirit Who created all things.For me when Jesus says "Father" He means Father.
He could have easily chosen a different word that reflected the truth, if God was not His Father.
Jesus knows, that's who .God is spirit.
God is not a person...He's some kind of being we don't really understand.
So we call this being HE, because, basically, he might not even have a gender.
Who can know?
So, in keeping with my post to you, you'd agree that we should call an unborn baby IT, when referring to the unborn baby?Jesus knows, that's who .
Jesus understands exactly who God is.
He call God " HE".
Not only did Jesus identify God as male , but also defined God as male in terms of a Father /Son relationship.
Jhn 10:30
I and my Father are one.
You do not discern what Jesus said and the purpose for which He said it.That's the issue; we have no adequate word for a relationship to an eternal and omnipotent spirit Who created all things.
Jesus says the Father is a spirit. He says that a spirit has no body. Without a body, a spirit has no gender.
God the Father never has been an "unborn baby " to the coexistent Son Jesus Christ .So, in keeping with my post to you, you'd agree that we should call an unborn baby IT, when referring to the unborn baby?
Why won't you answer my question?God the Father never has been an "unborn baby " to the coexistent Son Jesus Christ .
They always have existed.
There never was a time they did not intimately know each other because there has never been a time when they both did not exist .
There was a time when you, me & every baby ever born did not exist .
Not so with God the Father & God the Son.
Jesus knows His Father .
Jhn 10:30
I and my Father are one.
I just explained it to you. You just don't like what He said about it.You do not discern what Jesus said and the purpose for which He said it.
He also says that God is a spirit. And He says a spirit has no body.Jesus said that God must be worshipped in spirit because He is spirit and so are we .
I have a spirit. But being human, I also have a body, and thereby a gender. Gender is a limitation placed on us as created beings. God has no such limitations.It sounds as though you do not understand that you are a " spirit " as well .