Breitbart Europe: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said that God is “not male nor female,” after female bishops demanded the Church of England stop referring to God solely as “he.”
The head of the worldwide Anglican communion told attendees at a lecture at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square: “All human language about God is inadequate and to some degree metaphorical.
“God is not a father in exactly the same way as a human being is a father. God is not male or female. God is not definable.
“It is extraordinarily important as Christians that we remember that the definitive revelation of who God is was not in words, but in the word of God who we call Jesus Christ. We can’t pin God down.”
Professor of Christian history Diarmaid MacCulloch backed Archbishop Welby’s statement, telling The Times that the reason God has been perceived as male is due to “patriarchal assumptions” of early Christian societies of Greece and Rome. MORE
SNIP: Our Father, who art in Heaven…
Justin sounds like he’s pretty much gender neutral himself.
If He’s defined by the words of Jesus Christ, then that settles it. Christ referred to Him repeatedly as “Father”.
He’s just lucky God’s not there (in the C of E).
More proog how right Maggie was 20 years ago, “Blair is about destroying the UK!”!
There are many reasons she is the only PM to win 3 STRAIGHT elections; her understanding of Tony is only 1.
Winnie won 3 election but the Marxist Atlee beat him once, Winnie destroyed Atlee in the next go round! Atlee is the Big Brother of ’84.
I am really old
Isiah 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or who has given Him counsel? 14 Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?…
Yeah deny the masculinity of God, that’ll put butts in the pews.
Excuse me…..how is he referred to in the Bible?
It ain’t “gender neutral”.
But then again the Anglican Church quit abiding by the scriptures long ago. Their modern church doctrine is more kind and inclusive. Btw, don’t you EVER mention the Old Testament or they’ll toss you out on your ear.
Hell just got another member.
“It is extraordinarily important as Christians that we remember that the definitive revelation of who God is was not in words, but in the word of God who we call Jesus Christ. We can’t pin God down.”
Sounds like he is trying to pin God down.
Good luck to him..
Visit an investor funded mega church. Every time we’ve been invited, speakers were ultraconservative and not afraid to tell the truth. Those places are always packed. Wonder how many attendees bailed out of tolerant, politically correct, gender neutral so called churches…
Well, if HE declares this, then that is that.
The CoE has been run by degenerate faggots and dykes for over half a century now. It’s got about as much to do with Christianity as a San Francisco bathhouse.
Well the devil is definitely a cross dresser.
“…gender neutral…”
Oh, please.
Bubba the love sponge begs to differ and offers you to reconsider after “kissin” the baby.
Sounds like the “archbishop” needs to read ‘its’ good old King James again some time.
I beg to differ with posters on this thread.
What Welby is saying is that our language is unable to define God.
I have often used the phrase that it is impossible to put God into a box of our understanding, because by trying to do so, we are making him less than God.
Anything we may think we understand about God is so much less than He actually is.
The history and use of the term Father and He and Him to refer to God is so that we mere humans can have some small idea of who God is. It is only so we can have something to be able to wrap our small brains around.
At least Graceia gets it.
What does it matter to anyone what gender God is? Try living a godly life instead of all of this crap.