May 23, 2022
Christians haven't been reading the Bible this way for 2,000 years, because for most of the last 2,000 years, most Christians weren't readin
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Christians haven't been reading the Bible this way for 2,000 years, because for most of the last 2,000 years, most Christians weren't readin
Text from Isaiah 1. What a perfect description of many conservative Christians, thinking they can oppress the people who God created, neglect the needy, & instead satisfy God with surface religiosity and sermons that gay people are bad.
It turns out these sorts of people are the real "Sodomites" (v10). Who would've guessed.
The so-called "biblical literalist" idea that God has a (male) body is so silly. Not only does the bible explicitly say that's not true (John 4:24, Luke 24:39, Deuteronomy 4:15-16) but like. Where do you think God existed before creating the universe. Just existing as a male body in total nothingness? And where do you think God exists now? Just as a man floating in heaven (as opposed to filling heaven and earth as the bible says)? Dafuq
Conservative Christians are really out there being biblically inconsistent and not interpreting every commandment through Romans 13:8-10 and it shows
"If Jesus had wanted us to call God Mother, he would have said so." This assumption is based on the belief that Jesus and the New Testament writers said everything God wants us to know about everything for every situation in every culture for all time...
There is an easy way to show the error in [this] assumption...[and] it is to apply that line of reasoning to some of the foundational doctrines which evangelicals hold dear... If Jesus wanted us to pray to him, why didn't he say so, instead of only telling us to pray to the Father? If Jesus had wanted us to believe in the Trinity, then why didn't he say so explicitly?... If Jesus wanted us to believe he was God, why didn't he say so directly?...
[Jesus] fully accomplished his work on the cross...[but] while Jesus did it all, he didn't say it all... We know this because he told us precisely that [in John 16:12-13]... God usually does things in gradual stages, both in the scriptures and in our lives.
Is It Okay to Call God Mother? Considering the Feminine Face of God by Paul Smith