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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."
The first words of the Old Testament are B'reshit bara Elohim—"In the beginning God created." [1] The verb bara (created) agrees with a masculine singular subject.[citation needed] Elohim is used to refer to both genders and is plural; it has been used to refer to both Goddess (in 1 Kings 11:33), and God (1 Kings 11:31; [2]).
LDS God has a physical body, and thus is not only identified as being a man, but has a physical sex, that being male. [22] The same is for Jesus, God's son, but not for the Holy Spirit, which has a spiritual form. [22] God is also married to the Heavenly Mother. It is unknown if she has a physical body or defined sex like God.
[22] [23] [24] Discovering Biblical Equality maintains that viewing God in masculine terms is merely a way in which we speak of God in figurative language. The author reiterates that God is spirit and that the Bible presents God through personification and anthropomorphism which reflects only a likeness to God. [25]
[4] 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).
"The natural world was created for man to admire and to understand and subdue through sustained intellectual and scientific enquiry which would also disclose the pattern of the moral universe underlying the natural world." [1] By this, Norman Vance means that men should end up with a proper moral and spiritual understanding of the world God ...
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God said, in the book of Deuteronomy, “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God." [ 18 ] The book intends to set a specific idea of what a man and women should, and should not wear based on their gender, or they will disappoint the Lord.