I have often wondered how one gets to a mindset that entertains God as a female. Anyone who knows scripture and reads the Bible on a consistant basis knows that God is called the “Father”. No other possibility exists.
So where do the heresies come from?
The explosion of mysticism in our society is key and it is not confined to the general public. It is rampant in the church.
Take for instance Neal Donald Walsch. He claims to converse with God. The truth…he is deceived and deceiving others. His “god”, speaks of a new age gospel which is truly distorted from God’s word. There is no truth in him and his enlightened revelations. His experiences trump the truths found in the Bible, so he says.
As Walsch meditates, here is a product of what he has “received” taken from “Conversations with God.”
“If you think God looks only one way or sounds only one way or is only one way, you’re going to look right past Me night and day. You’ll spend your whole life looking for God and not finding Her.”
The problem with the statement is vast. To know God you have to study His word. He is the only way.
No one can find reconciliation with God and salvation from sin except through union with Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
There is no place in scripture that refers to God in the female sense. Heresies are often traced back through man’s secret revelations obtained by occult mystical spirit guides that are quickly emerging.
So on to the article for today from David Cloud.
THE EMERGING CHURCH’S FEMALE GOD (Friday Church News Notes, June 12, 2009, http://www.wayoflife.org
– Phyllis Tickle, an Episcopalian lay “Eucharistic minister and lector” and a Senior Fellow at Cathedral College at the liberal Washington National Cathedral, is an influential voice in the emerging church and the contemplative prayer movement. Tickle promotes non-verbal contemplative praying. She says, “The whole business of entering prayer WITHOUT THE VEHICLE OF WORDS is very important, for it allows the spirit to flow freely with the spirit of God, and does not have to articulate what is happening until one comes out from prayer” (“Praying in Color: A Conversation with friends and authors Sybil MacBeth and Phyllis Tickle,”
Wordless meditation is not biblical prayer; it is a pagan practice that is a recipe for demonic deception. Those who practice it are invariably led into heresies. It should not be surprising, then, that Tickle believes in a female God and calls the Holy Spirit “he or she or it.” She teaches that by partaking of the Lord’s Supper the believer is feeding God and reinvigorating the Holy Spirit, whatever that means.
Speaking at Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she said: “God is both male and female. God is both father and mother. … There is more than one thing under the name of God, and it is both male and female. … As we are about to do that [take the Lord’s supper], let us remember what we are doing. We not only celebrate that death and that promise of return, but we are feeding by eating God–which is what we are doing here–by eating the body and blood of our God, we are feeding the God within us. For as we take those elements the Spirit also feeds within us and is reinvigorated as he or she or it is by our faith” (Tickle, “A Treasure We Don’t Understand,” May 3, 2009).
Phyllis Tickle, Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, and that crowd are worshipping idols. The Shack, a popular book in emerging circles, also depicts God as a woman.
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6 comments
June 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm
prof2076
I understand where you’re coming from – before I read the book I thought that it was a whole lot of heresy as well. I thought it was just another author trying to sell a book based on a shock factor, but once I read the book it all made since.
The whole point that Young is trying to make (which he states clearly when the reader is first introduced to papa-Female depiction of God) is that God is neither male nor female. God comes to each and every one of us in the way we will most readily accept him. For the main character who was hurt by his father and had his life turned upside down by a mad man would most readily accept a southern black woman.
The book goes into deeper detail by drawing on the fact that although God is presented as a woman God is called ‘Papa’ – it’s paradoxical. Nowhere in scripture does it say that God is either male or female. Why does it matter if God is either? I have to say that it does not impact my faith in the slightest one way or the other.
June 14, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Kim
“Nowhere in scripture does it say that God is either male or female.”
What????? A Father is male….this is just a partial list…i got tired of copying and pasting from the The Blue Letter Bible NKJV
1Ch 29:10 Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said: “Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever.
Psa 68:5 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, [Is] God in His holy habitation.
Psa 89:26 He shall cry to Me, ‘You [are] my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
Isa 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Mal 2:10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
Jhn 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him].
Jhn 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
Jhn 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”
Jhn 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
Jhn 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
Jhn 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
Jhn 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God.
Jhn 10:36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Jhn 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,
Jhn 16:27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
Jhn 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and [to] My God and your God.’ ”
Act 2:33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
Rom 1:7 To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Cr 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you believe that God is not a male or our heavenly Father, then your faith is indeed negatively impacted.
read
https://kimolsen.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/the-shack-from-olive-tree-ministries/
https://kimolsen.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/how-the-shack-became-the-1-bestseller-in-christianity/
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=1065&more=1&c=1
June 15, 2009 at 7:49 am
Kim
“God comes to each and every one of us in the way we will most readily accept him.”
Romans 10 is pretty clear how we come to Christ and salvation.
Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
and hearing the Word
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
God comes to us through His son…..
God comes to us through Jesus Christ and there is no other way.
Act 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Jhn 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Hbr 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
June 15, 2009 at 10:52 pm
IWanthetruth
Frankly Kim, I feel the same about the Emergents as I do about Jehovah Witness. If they really knew the scriptures they wouldn’t be following this theology, period.
June 16, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Kim
IWTT,
Yes, this is so true. People don’ t read or study their Bibles anymore. It takes commitment to God to stay in His Word.
June 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm
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