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Rev Emma Percy, chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, has faced criticism for saying God can be referred to as 'She'.
A leading woman priest who believes God should be referred to as "she" has received dozens of letters from people telling her she is "stupid" or worse.
Rev Emma Percy, chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford and a member of Women and the Church, said earlier this year she wanted to change the notion that God is "some kind of old man in the sky" by using "She" instead of the more traditional
Read More: http://www.allroundgospel.com/2015/09/top-woman-priest-abused-for-calling-god.html

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But could this be really offensive

misreal:
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SMH. Look for FTC

UltimateDaniel:
Rev Emma Percy, chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, has faced criticism for saying God can be referred to as 'She'.
A leading woman priest who believes God should be referred to as "she" has received dozens of letters from people telling her she is "silly" or worse.

I have read the whole article and do agree with the letters that she is being stewpid.

This is not the proper way or correct manner for her to wage her feminist campaign of women's equality with men.

It is silly of her to say that believers think of God as "some kind of old man in the sky"

Knowing that Jesus referred to God, as being His Father and our Father, it then, is sillier of her to believe God should be referred to as "she"

Colossians 1:15 tells us that God is invisble, whilst we know about Genesis 1:27, it's from likes of John 14:9 etc that God came to earth as a He
- God became a man, in the person of Jesus Christ

Colossians 1:15
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,

John 14:9
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip,
even after I have been among you such a long time?
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Genesis 1:27 notwithstanding, God is epicene, so no one should be alienated from knowing God.
It doesnt matter if you're a he or you're a she, because God has both a "maleness" and "femaleness" to Him
This means there is no excuse for any gender NOT to identify with God.

The ''maleness'' in God, conveys the sense of provider, strength, power etc

PROVIDER - Matthew 6:9,11
9So then, this is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name,
11Give us this day our daily bread,

STRENGTH & POWER - Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name

Isaiah 42:13
Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up his zeal like a man of war:
he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.

While the ''femaleness'' in God, is in association with comfort, protection, love, caring, nurturing, fertility, wisdom etc

COMFORT - Isaiah 66:13
As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

PROTECTION - Luke 13:34
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers!
How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings,
but you wouldn't let me.

LOVE CARING & NURTURING - Isaiah 49:15
"Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child?
Can she feel no love for the child she has borne?
But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!

FERTILITY - Isaiah 42:14
For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant

Job 38:29
“From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?


As seen from a few case in point examples like in the verses above, there are adequate female images of God in the bible, without needing to resort to an "our Mother God" nomenclature.

Bottom line is, God hasnt got an identity crisis, besides it is His prerogative to decide
and/or allow the Godself to be revealed to us in the Bible, as a male personage
AND NOT to be revealed to us in a physical she or female form

UltimateDaniel:
Rev Emma Percy, chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford and a member of Women and the Church, said earlier this year she wanted to change the notion that God is "some kind of old man in the sky" by using "She" instead of the more traditional

Within reasonable contexts, God answers to all pronouns and adjectives,
but unlike Rev Emma Percy, I dont think there should be the option for female pronouns in the liturgy, such as "our Mother God".

In an effort to wage a feminist campaign of women's equality with men, Rev Emma Percy has conceived a badly thought out and far-fetched proposal for an open-and-shut-no-contest case

UltimateDaniel:
But could this be really offensive?

No not it isnt offensive and no one had said it is offensive
she however is being admonished for being stewpid enough to think her proposal is the best thing since sliced bread

She seems to be a feminist theologian

An2elect2:
They are very silly for making her a reverend

There is nothing silly in making her a reverend

An2elect2:
These are some of the stinks you get when a woman is given a position of authority in the church

True, this woman is stirring up an unnecessary fuss of some sort
but there still are quite a lot of good women in places of authority with their heads tightened on performing exceedingly and satisfactorily well
(i.e. there are a lot of good women in places of authority and revered, whether in the Bible, modern times, secular or non secular settings)
so please, do not disparage women in positions of authority
and dont use the same broad brush on them or paint them with a broad brush

The Bible records women with positions of authority
and Jesus too is known to have saddled women with positions of authority, so your remark is biased and misleading.
It also shows an outright mistrust of women occupying positions of authority
- a fear/mistrust of women, having no foundation or basis anymore, which in fact, Jesus so many times in His ministry on earth had corrected

Hmm, that could be right... But the Rev. still acts wrongly....
That's true

UltimateDaniel:
Hmm, that could be right... But the Rev. still acts wrongly....

Let's just say, a telling sign of misplaced priorities

MuttleyLaff:
Let's just say, a telling sign of misplaced priorities

Yeah

People just stay finding new ways to get offended at anything

shotster50:
People just stay finding new ways to get offended at anything

DO YOU THINK SO...