Timeline for Do Genesis 1:27, Galatians 4:26, Revelation 21:2 support the belief in a "God the Mother?"
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| Sep 23, 2017 at 12:34 | comment | added | Sola Gratia | "They ascribe a deity component to this Jerusalem (or according to Galatians 4:26, "Mother")" No more than 1 Cor 4:15 or Judg 5:7 etc.. | |
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| Jul 27, 2017 at 16:22 | comment | added | Lucian | Furthermore, Saint Ignatius, the famous Orthodox bishop of Antioch, also likens (elderly) overseers to the Father, (young) deacons to the Son, and (female) deaconesses to the Holy Spirit. The list could go on and on (and on), but I shall stop here. Bottom line, regardless of their particular creed or confession (Orthodox, Nestorian, Gnostic, etc.), ancient Christian authors have consistently viewed the Holy Spirit as a feminine entity, and the tradition continues unhindered to this very day, albeit sometimes it can take on forms usually considered heretical (such as Sophiology, for example). | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 16:12 | comment | added | Lucian | ..as supposedly referring to an impregnation of a mortal woman by a divine (male) being (such as Zeus' rape of Europa, for instance), according to the manner of pagan myths concerning the conception of various heroes or demigods (like Hercules, for example), rejected it out of hand, deeming it outright absurd, since it conjured, to his mind, the image of a woman conceiving by another woman. (I apologize for not being able to locate the source of this particular passage, but it has been over a decade since I've first encountered it). The same idea is also echoed in the Gnostic Acts of Philip. | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 15:55 | comment | added | Lucian | ..or the femininity and maternity of the Holy Ghost to be exploited by Syriac and Assyrian writers within Oriental Christianity, both Orthodox as well as Gnostic. We are, after all, born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5-8). Gregory Nazianzus, in his Fifth Theological Oration against the Arians, sees in the (unique) creation of Eve a figure of the Spirit's procession from the Father, typified by Adam, the father of all mankind. Another Church Father, when confronted by an ancient heresy which interpreted Christ's virgin birth narratives as.. | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | Lucian | Within historical Christianity, the family has always been regarded as a type of the Holy Trinity. Thus, John 10:30 follows the same logic as as Genesis 2:24 with regards to family unity (between husbands and wives, or parents and children). By the simple logical process of elimination, we deduce that women or mothers are an image of the Holy Spirit, just as men or fathers are an image of the Father, and sons or daughters are an image of the Son. For starters, the Semitic words for spirit are feminine, so it is not at all surprising to see Shekinah mysticism developing within Judaism, or.. | |
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