This is, I have to admit... fascinating. There is so much, substantively that I disagree with, and would enjoy the, roughly five full-fledged months-long discussions that it would take to parse through all of them one by one! Can't wait. :)
I am looking forward to deepening my own understanding as well. This concept quite alien to the Trinity message the church currently accepts. I certainly understand substantive disagreements due to the conditioning of society and I think it is our responsibility to deconstruct some of those ideas and rebuild in a manner which honors both God and their Children.
It'll be necessary to have more participants than simply you and I, so will wait to dig in until there are more ... but first, can you explain "substantive disagreements due to the conditioning of society"?
Of course! Our society has been conditioned to believe certain truths regarding the gender of God to be self-evident in scripture. Such as the continued use of the male pronoun in reference. It is easy to subliminally rely on God as an image of Man, due to the theology readily accepted by Christian's today. We of course would never speak this understanding with our mouth. However, our actions in church and home display our stoic belief that God is a Man. This is, of course, just my observation and experience!
I find it interesting that in Hebrew the Spirit of the Lord is often referred to as "She," especially throughout the Book of Judges. I just wonder why those who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into English translated the Spirit of the Lord as "He" instead of "She?" Thank you for the article.
This is, I have to admit... fascinating. There is so much, substantively that I disagree with, and would enjoy the, roughly five full-fledged months-long discussions that it would take to parse through all of them one by one! Can't wait. :)
I am looking forward to deepening my own understanding as well. This concept quite alien to the Trinity message the church currently accepts. I certainly understand substantive disagreements due to the conditioning of society and I think it is our responsibility to deconstruct some of those ideas and rebuild in a manner which honors both God and their Children.
Cool!
It'll be necessary to have more participants than simply you and I, so will wait to dig in until there are more ... but first, can you explain "substantive disagreements due to the conditioning of society"?
Of course! Our society has been conditioned to believe certain truths regarding the gender of God to be self-evident in scripture. Such as the continued use of the male pronoun in reference. It is easy to subliminally rely on God as an image of Man, due to the theology readily accepted by Christian's today. We of course would never speak this understanding with our mouth. However, our actions in church and home display our stoic belief that God is a Man. This is, of course, just my observation and experience!
I find it interesting that in Hebrew the Spirit of the Lord is often referred to as "She," especially throughout the Book of Judges. I just wonder why those who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into English translated the Spirit of the Lord as "He" instead of "She?" Thank you for the article.