Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: ambitious women may approach the altar now ... Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 03:24:24 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 13 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu B Distribution: Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Keywords: The essence of this article seems to suggest that because the O.T. was written from a masculine point of view that man created God in his own image. What is rather more the case is that the revelation of God thru man at that time was written down in the argot of the era, i.e. a male dominated society. So the written scripture comes to us in a masculine tone. Had it been written in Greece a century earlier, the tone might well have been feminine, and we would now be dealing with God the Mother and trying with our inclusive language to remove references to women from the liturgy. God is neither male nor female, and is both male and female simultaneously. That is how male and female were created in the image of God.