...Just hours after its newly elected woman head preached a sermon in praise ofYou may have read that the Episcopal church has offered up new ways to understand the Trinity - among them, Mother, Child, Womb. (Personally, I prefer the cartoonist who suggested Paper, Rock, Scissors.)
“our mother Jesus”, the Episcopal Church agreed to “exercise restraint” in
appointing any more gay bishops after a tense day of debate and argument...
Who better understands the character of Jesus than God the Father, than Jesus Himself? How is He described in the God-breathed scriptures?
He repeatedly acknowledges himself the Son, the Son of David, the Son of Man. He is described as propitiation, mediator, prophet, high priest, savior, brother, etc. - never as feminine, never as mother.
This is nothing short of blasphemy, of spiritual arrogance. It is an attempt to impute a feminine character to a masculine deity, to redefine the very nature of God, to emasculate Jesus Christ. If the infinitely wise Creator of the universe desired to convey knowledge of His alleged feminine nature to mankind, He is more than able to do so. Instead He chose to characterize Himself as Father and Jesus as Son. No man - much less no woman - has greater knowledge than God Himself to "enlighten" us otherwise.
Consider the warning of the apostle Paul in Galatians 1: "If we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed."
