If you're a real Christian this is heresy. The physical manifestation of God (Jesus) is male (also in the Old Testament), and there's a lot of symbolism based on that fact in the Bible. And more generally, being gender neutral is in itself unbiblical, since the Bible loves pointing out the differences in roles and duties of the two genders.
It matters not one bit, because the Church of England has become irrelevant and useless anyway. I'm sure that those who actually read the Bible will just ignore this decision, and will carry on as usual, believing that He created the heavens and the earth, not Zhe/Them/They.
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God as a concept probably should be beyond things like gender. But Yahweh is typically male to the point that he had a wife (Asherah) and at least according to the Christian Church, fathered a son.
That is absolutely terrible idea. There a reason why he’s called god the father “he made man in his own image”. If he was a women he would have made women first if he was gender neutral Adam would have been a sexless widget
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If a male god exists so does a female one. But maybe god worshipers forget that's how gender work so if he defines himself as one gender the other must exist.
God was always gender neutral. Wokeism trying to rewrite traditional and Conservative values. Next they will be insisting on atheist Christian ministers and LGBTQ weddings in churches.
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Who could have seen that coming? Before long he will be trans.
The Bible mentions that even the churches will change and the word will be manipulated and that's why we need to know the real word, I expect to see this
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It’s about time! Also please god is not a white man either. He was black.
Well according to a religious scholar, God is a black woman.
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This sounds pretty typical of "end-time/last days" behavior. The best thing to do is to STAY AWAY from churches/congregations that push this type of false theology. TruNews dot Com is where I get my TruthNews about all things God and Jesus.
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Well, I think it makes sense when you get right down to it, it is part of the reason why I don't believe the bible, would the creator of the Universe be limited by the physical or emotional charateristics of either gender.
Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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If you're a real Christian this is heresy. The physical manifestation of God (Jesus) is male (also in the Old Testament), and there's a lot of symbolism based on that fact in the Bible. And more generally, being gender neutral is in itself unbiblical, since the Bible loves pointing out the differences in roles and duties of the two genders.
It matters not one bit, because the Church of England has become irrelevant and useless anyway. I'm sure that those who actually read the Bible will just ignore this decision, and will carry on as usual, believing that He created the heavens and the earth, not Zhe/Them/They.
Wasn't god always gender neutral and people just assumed god is male?
Just like Jesus being depicted as blond european dude, the patriachy in christian church also depicted God as big old bearded guy.
However spends time worrying about what gender (or race) God might be is really missing the bigger picture by a cataclysmic long shot.
If you seriously worry about this then you have very little faith to begin with.
God as a concept probably should be beyond things like gender. But Yahweh is typically male to the point that he had a wife (Asherah) and at least according to the Christian Church, fathered a son.
That is absolutely terrible idea. There a reason why he’s called god the father “he made man in his own image”. If he was a women he would have made women first if he was gender neutral Adam would have been a sexless widget
The Church of England, and the Papacy as well, are generally a wonderful source of entertainment, are they not?
If a male god exists so does a female one. But maybe god worshipers forget that's how gender work so if he defines himself as one gender the other must exist.
God was always gender neutral. Wokeism trying to rewrite traditional and Conservative values. Next they will be insisting on atheist Christian ministers and LGBTQ weddings in churches.
Who could have seen that coming? Before long he will be trans.
Wouldn't it then be going along with "woke" ideology.
I thought religion, HATED woke?
No wonder you are atheist.
But the whole idea of the church going gender neutral is to make it more "modern"
It's just window dressing
The Bible mentions that even the churches will change and the word will be manipulated and that's why we need to know the real word, I expect to see this
It’s about time! Also please god is not a white man either. He was black.
According to the best history available, Jesus was dark-skinned, we don't know what color God the Father was.
Hebrew, probably brown?
Well according to a religious scholar, God is a black woman.
This sounds pretty typical of "end-time/last days" behavior. The best thing to do is to STAY AWAY from churches/congregations that push this type of false theology. TruNews dot Com is where I get my TruthNews about all things God and Jesus.
God having a gender in the bible is more to do with the limits of language than anything else. It makes no real difference.
God is beyond gender. He can come in many forms, not just one. A man, a woman, a rock, and so on.
Well, I think it makes sense when you get right down to it, it is part of the reason why I don't believe the bible, would the creator of the Universe be limited by the physical or emotional charateristics of either gender.
Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”