The feminist movement is alive and well. The feminist "theologians" still say that God has a feminine side as an attribute. He is part male and part female! In their ever growing spiritual blindness they use such passages as John 3:3 and 6 to try to prove their point. In these verses Christ told Nicodemus that he must "be born again," which in their minds is a motherly idea. And in verse 6 Christ says "everyone who is born of the Spirit." So in their diabolical thinking being born of God and the Spirit shows the motherly side of God. The same idea is repeated in 1:13: "Born of God." Deuteronomy 32:18 also says that Israel neglected "the Rock who begot you, and [you] forgot the God who gave you birth." Again, the ignorant and evil feminists say this proves the Lord has a motherly side, thus, He is God our Mother! Using this same twisted and foolish logic, Jesus must be a hen! He said to Jerusalem "How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling" (Matt. 23:37). These sorry ideas were again recently repeated by Sandra Schneiders who teaches theology and New Testament at Berkeley. Paul says that the god of this world, Satan, "has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Cor. 4:4). Smart people can lose their senses by the work of Satan and can come to crazy ideas such as advocating the feminine side of God. Such types or illustrations in no way make God female. The word "God" is male and He is to be seen as masculine. This is the way He presents Himself in biblical theology! Though the word "Spirit" (Pneuma) just happens to be neuter, all the pronouns used in describing Him are masculine! No Greek scholar worth his salt would argue for the Motherly side of God the Father or of the Spirit! Such distortion of objective biblical facts will continue to grow. And because the Bible has been cut out of our society and culture, confusion will just increase and certainly not diminish. Satan is working overtime as we move deeper into the apostasy! – Dr. Mal Couch |