Is God a Girl?
This is a article I found Interesting and thought provoking.
Bettany Hughes is a expert in acient History and questions whether god is a girl?
Bettany Hughes challenges the belief that women cannot be priests, she says that the church was originally a place where female of the species held sway. She argues that a man has always turned to womenfor good Ideas and most deities of wisdom throughout History have been mostly female.
She also feels that ‘by suppressing the story of the connection between men and women and religion, we etiolate both history and the possibilities of our own world.
She points out that the first 200 years of Christinanity, over half of all churches in Rome were built by women, it was also a women, Phoebe, who was Invited by Paul to take the word of God to Rome.
The Church of Englands turmoil over ordination of women Bishops has been played out before, she calls women the” life blood” of christianity and added that women presided as Deaconesses, Preistesses and Bishops in early centuries AD.This was decribed as ‘unacceptable and shamefull’at the time. At least 65 per cent of all those who go to Anglican Churches were also women, she also claims, that a feminist Theologian argued that Jesus could have been a hermaphrodite.
Dr Susan Cornwall of Manchester University said it Impossible to say jesus was ‘male as we now define maleness.
