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1 | God can use woman in the ministry? | Gal 3:28 | OldTimer | 37126 | ||
To the best of my knowledge, the personal pronoun "He" is always used in reference to the Holy Spirit. To say that God has a masculine or a feminine side is to anthropromorphize Him - that is, attempt to give Him human characteristics. But remember, we are made in HIS image... we must be careful not to re-create Him in ours. Having said that the only feminine characterization of God that I'm aware of in the Bible is Sophia - Wisdom - who is represented in the book of Proverbs as crying out in the streets for us to hear. But to take this analogy and make a feminine God out of it is not warranted in my opinion. The is also the image of a mother bird used to portray God's providential love and concern for us (Ps 91, Matthew 23:37, Luke 13:34) but again, to take this analogy to the point of calling God "her" is not Biblically accurate. |
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2 | God can use woman in the ministry? | Gal 3:28 | Morant61 | 37172 | ||
Greetings Oldtimer! Whoops! I missed something in your post. Almost all of the pronouns referring to the Holy Spirit are neuter simply because the word 'spirit' is neuter. In Greek, a pronoun must agree with its antecedent in person, gender, and number. However, as I noted, there are cases where this rule is broken and a masculine pronoun is used in reference to the Holy Spirit. This, in combination with the rest of what Scripture says about the Holy Spirit, idicates that He is not an impersonal force. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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