LOL! Look at the weenies over in the Anglican Church who have abandoned the Gospel and spit in the face of God.
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These whitewashed tombs are completely bereft of life or authority or power. To use Jesus' metaphor, they are withered branches that have fallen away from the vine but somehow think that's great.
The Church of England has said that there is "no official definition" of a woman.
In a written reply to a question submitted to General Synod, a senior Bishop said that although the meaning of the word woman was previously "thought to be self-evident", "additional care" was now needed.
Translation: Here there be men without chests.
The question was posed as institutions grapple with the ongoing debate surrounding trans rights and what defines "a woman".
While the new stance has been welcomed by liberal wings of the Church, the comments have also provoked criticism - with gender-critical campaigners saying that "whether your starting point is biology or the Bible", the answer to the question of what is a woman remains the same.
Random commentator Matt Walsh has a better working grip on reality than the entire leadership of the Anglican Church.
This is why we say that these political issues are theological at heart.
These things are quite literally spelled out in Genesis 1, the first chapter of the first book of the entire Bible.
- Genesis 1:27: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
- Genesis 2:18: "Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'"
- Genesis 2:22-25: "And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."
- Genesis 5:2: "Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."
- Matthew 19:4-6: "[Jesus] answered, 'Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?' So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.'"
(These are just the basic teachings from the first chapters of Genesis, not the entire Bible, mind you – we aren't even getting into Paul's Epistles!)
Looking at the Hebrew in these passages (which these learned men of God should have studied, right?), we get a few key words defining women:
- kenegdow – fit, according to the opposite of something
- ‘ezer – helper, indispensable companion (often in a military sense)
- ʾishah – The Hebrew word for women forms a paronomasia (play on words) with the word for "man" (ʾish). The literal grammar structure is a way to show how both sexes complete each other.
- dabaq – cleave to, hold fast to, join with; the relationship between a man and his wife will be inseparable to the point where two are considered one.
- tsela - rib, one's side; the woman is so intimately connected to man that she is a part of him.
So in the biological sense, a woman is an adult human female who alone bears young, like nearly all life that follows the pattern of dichotomous, binary sex.
And in the theological sense, gathered from the first chapters of Genesis alone, a woman is a complementary opposite to man that is necessary for him to survive; an indispensable companion in times of adversary and strife who joins body and mind with him to help where he is weak or not naturally gifted.
The entire Church of England must have skipped that Sunday School lesson.
Ironically, the first female priest in the Anglican Church is ticked by the move, but she doesn't realize that female pastors stopped being cool and trendy in 2017.
Rev Angela Berners-Wilson, England's first woman priest, said that she is "not totally happy" with the answer, but added that the issue is "sensitive".
Sad!
At least when the trans "women" come for her job, she'll be back under the authority of men per 1 Timothy 2:12!
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