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The verse literally translates to "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". [2] David Scholer, New Testament scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, believes that the passage is "the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church."
Similarly, angels in Christianity have also masculine genders, names and functions. John Milton, in Paradise Lost, specifies that although demons may seem masculine or feminine, spirits "Can either Sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is thir Essence pure". Nonetheless, these feminine shapes may be just temporal disguises to deceive ...
The angel Jophiel (Heb. יוֹפִיאֵל Yōp̄īʾēl, "Beauty of God"), [1] [2] also called Iophiel, Iofiel, Jofiel, Yofiel, Youfiel, Zophiel (צֹפִיאֵל Ṣōp̄īʾēl, "God is my watchman") [3] and Zuriel (צוּרִיאֵל Ṣūrīʾēl, "God is my rock"), [4] is an archangel in Christian and Jewish angelology.
Polytheistic religions, however, almost always attribute gender to their gods, though a few notable divinities are associated with various forms of epicene characteristics—gods that manifest alternatingly as male and female, gods with one male and one female "face", and gods whose most distinctive characteristic is their unknown gender.
In Matthew 18:10 Jesus warns not to despise children because "their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." Luke 20:34–36 affirms that, like the angels, "those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die."
A list of 72 angels of the 9 choir orders, with esoteric meaning related to the names of God Selaphiel: Sealtiel, Selatiel Christianity Archangel Patron saint of prayer and worship Seraph (type) [note 1] Seraphim (plural) Christianity, Islam, Judaism (type) Seraphiel [19] Christianity, Judaism Seraph Protector of Metatron, chief of seraphim ...
(Tobit 12,15) The other two angels mentioned by name in the Bibles used by Catholics and Protestants are the archangel Michael and the angel Gabriel; Uriel is named in 2 Esdras (4:1 and 5:20) and Jerahmeel is named in 2 Esdras 4:36, a book that is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches ...
The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) was one of the first major translations to adopt gender-neutral language. [1] The King James Version translated at least one passage using a technique that many now reject in other translations, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9).