Too much theology, insufficient basics.
To deny conception by the Holy Spirit is to state that the Bible does not contain the truth. I would recommend you read "The case for the real Jesus" by Lee Strobel.
Incidentally your notorious billboard is irreverent. Has noone told you that man is flesh and God is Spirit?
Might I also suggest a course of instruction from Derek Prince Ministries.
Alex [Rome]
20 Dec 2009 00:24:13
Sloppy pseudo-theology based on sloppy biblical exegesis! The Holy Spirit whose grammatical gender in Latin is masculine, in Greek is neutral, but is actually femminine in Hebrew! The human authors of the Gospels did write in Greek but were writing about Hebrew spiritual matters. Therefore it is most improbable that they would attribute "male inseminatory activity" to a feminine spiritual reality (Ruah HaKodesh)! Rather, the Holy Spirit, "prepared and enabled" Mary to "participate" in divine maternity. That motherhood actually comes from God. Fatherhood and Motherhood in God are analogical concepts (maior dissimilitudo quam similitudo). Fatherhood = giving, Motherhood = reception. Calling God a Father means fundamentally that He is a giver. This does not however mean that He cannot receive. He does, and that is His maternal side (Cfr. Isaiah). All this is simply to communicate to us mortals that God can be approached in a dialogic relationship of LOVE. He is Father first of all, because he takes the initiative in loving (giving Himself in His Son Jesus), but then also Mother, because willing to receive us into the Comunion of the Trinity through the Holy Spirit. If people think otherwise then part of a preacher's is to correct and teach them the truth from the scriptures and holy tradition and not introduce some novel invention which only misleads unto perdition. I believe the real problem here is a question of Weltanschauung. Is there an underlying ideological and therefore reductionist reading of scriptural data? Femminism perhaps or some kind of Freudian father-figure hungups?
Alex [Rome]
20 Dec 2009 00:27:50
Errata corrige:
. . . then part of a preacher's is to correct . . . .
. . . then part of a preacher's mission is to correct . . . .
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