I hesitate giving Jesus a human gender definition.If he was god's son, he was not human, therefore can not be defined
as a human male..
Not exact matches
Scarlett Johansson's casting
as a Japanese
human - cyborg in «Ghost in the Shell» caused an uproar earlier this year,
as did Tilda Swinton's role
as the Ancient One in «Doctor Strange» — a character depicted
as an Asian
male in the comic source material.
CryptoPunks are 24x24 pixel art images which are algorithmically generated and predominately
male and female
humans with a smattering of other characters such
as zombies, apes, and aliens.
Even
as a gay
male, it was strange for me showering with my straight classmates or at the gym just
as its strange for straight people in the same situation but I am a
human being who is capable of respect for others privacy and personal boundaries.
The creation story in the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of humankind
as male and female, sexually differentiated and enjoined by God's grace to sustain
human life through procreation.
The feminist reformist recognizes that that ideal is not fully achieved, and that there were times when
male Christians refused to accept the full humanity of women, but they consider those failures
as expressions of inadequacy and
human perversion of the gospel.
A «theology of the finite» will regard seriously, in a nondefensive way, the intimations, the signals, the clues our bodies provide — not simply our bodies
as human beings, but
as male beings and female beings.
We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage
as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for
human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity
as male or female.
We are made
as human beings for Christ, according to Holloway; but even the fact of being
male or being female was made for Him.
Notice how at Genesis 1:27 a, adam is alone and is simply «
human», not yet distinguished
as male.
We are made
male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen
as an autonomous
human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.
...
as you stated in another post «By inspiring the
human authors to write what they did, God made it look like He was the one responsible for the actions of Israel, the destruction of the flood, the murder of the firstborn
males of Israel, and the slaughter of Canaanite women and children.
The new creation beckons us beyond the bored images and achievements of what we already are; it is a promise for the
human, not just for the
human as male or female.
It was not until the twentieth century that the equality the Declaration promised to all
human beings — for that is what «men» meant in the fundamental phrase — began to be fully extended to females
as well
as males.
Such absolutisms included a heroic myth about U.S. history interpreted
as the rise of «the successful
male white Protestant, whose features were turned into ideals for the entire
human race.»
Just
as there is no moral quality in the fact that persons are born
male or female, so these other
human differences are facts.
The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within
human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way,
as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death;
male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).
By contrast, the perfection of the androgynous God of process thought consists in an ideal balance of these contrasting traits, not in the total exclusion of the traits this culture traditionally views
as feminine, thus luring both
human males and females to strive to create themselves in the divine image.
Since God created
humans as male and female, all our relationships with other people are intrinsically sexual in that we relate
as men or
as women.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its universal characteristics, -
male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology
as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each
human life, our essential equality
as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried
males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.
The meaning of the liberal arts
as educating the «free adult
male» was transformed into a program of enhancing
human freedom, but this was always perceived in terms of forming and shaping a person.
... The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among
male homosexual practitioners
as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus,
human immunodeficiency virus,
human papilloma virus, isospora belli, microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.
In other words: it is not merely
as humans that we reflect God together
as male and female, but
as those who rule over the world
as male and female we bear the image of God.
It is, rather, an intrinsic, basic good of
human persons precisely
as males and females, and
as such it offers married men and women a reason to engage in the marital act.
Vatican Council II indicated this great truth when it declared: «God did not create the
human person
as a solitary,» and after citing Genesis 1: 27, «
male and female he created them,» explains that the companionship of the two sexes «produces the primary form of interpersonal communion.
Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the
human person
as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual
males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual
male behavior, is morally bad.
souls is not
male or female... read «Philoshophy of Divine Love» by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati... it is a wonderful book for those who really want to know who we are and why we are born
as human....
The division of
human nature sexually into the
male and female principles, is to make possible the Incarnation of Christ,
as God made man, into the
human order.
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood describes complementarianism
as the view that «God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and
human personhood, but different and complementary in function with
male headship in the home and in the Church.»
The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal
human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such
as the family,
male and female complementarity, and the role of woman
as mother and educator.
When the divine
male gender reigns supreme in the heavenly places
as the Almighty, so the
human male gender dominates the earth.
The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a
male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only
as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).
Inasmuch
as the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible sponsored by the National Council of Churches has been out since 1989, the TNIV is playing «catch up» on avoiding
male terms when gender - inclusive words are valid translations or when
humans in general were meant.
Similarly, the status of the
human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for
human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of
male - female lifelong marriage
as the normal structure in which
human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «
human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).
There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change language or to castigate parents for bringing up children
as male or female,
as if the structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to
human biology and were just a social construct of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary» language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse language to suit a particular theory.
As a result, he now names himself: no longer adam, generic human - being - from - the - earth, but ish, individual male human being, man as male in relation to female woma
As a result, he now names himself: no longer adam, generic
human - being - from - the - earth, but ish, individual
male human being, man
as male in relation to female woma
as male in relation to female woman.
The speech of desire was the speech of the man: indeed, in announcing the «she is mine, she is me» character of his desire, he identifies himself
as a
male human being, against his female counterpart.
That group has, of course, been
male, and the
male's view of the female
as a being whose sexual nature is more marked than her
human nature is everywhere in the language.
He also effectively denied a role for the feminine in the Church and in salvation when he developed an anthropology that took the
male as the sum of what it means to be most fully
human.
Human male sperm and human female eggs are an - alogous to the millions of tons of inactive deuterium floating harmlessly in the ocean but combine them in a fusion reaction, they instantly become the expanding energy of the Sun found in all stars as they continuously fuse more hydrogen making the const - ituents of all human l
Human male sperm and
human female eggs are an - alogous to the millions of tons of inactive deuterium floating harmlessly in the ocean but combine them in a fusion reaction, they instantly become the expanding energy of the Sun found in all stars as they continuously fuse more hydrogen making the const - ituents of all human l
human female eggs are an - alogous to the millions of tons of inactive deuterium floating harmlessly in the ocean but combine them in a fusion reaction, they instantly become the expanding energy of the Sun found in all stars
as they continuously fuse more hydrogen making the const - ituents of all
human l
human life..
If,
as the story goes, God created Adam and Eve
as the first two
humans, and Adam and Eve had two
male children, who did their
male children mate with to produce future generations?
Indeed, it sees oppression of
human beings, especially of women, and oppression of the natural world
as of a piece with
male domination.
Unlike Jesus Christ, these
human creatures are not eternal uncreated persons and will come into being, not only through Divine decision, but also through the decision and determination of the creature, a
male principle determining the cooperative female,
as is the case between a man and woman in
human procreation.
As Karl Barth stressed,
human initiative (particularly that of the
human male) is excluded.
I know God
as neither
male nor female, but
as the Spirit Who lives in me and inspires me every moment of my life, in every situation I encounter, and in every relationship with another
human being.
Since the Beginning the Lord God has Created
Human of two Genders,
Male and Female and he Blessed them, and that Does not scale them
as like be Dogs and Cats!
Jephthah is
as rough and tough a package of
male humanity
as one will find anywhere, destined to act out his years in reaction to a
human environment with which he always found himself at odds.
The divine blessing of procreation («Be fruitful and multiply») is spoken to the
human male and female in Genesis 1:28, and Adam's rapturous little poem naming woman and man in Genesis 2:23 (which I take to be the way Genesis 2 affirms that creation is «very good») clearly aims at sexual union,
as the man is to leave father and mother and cleave to his woman, becoming one flesh with her (Gen. 2:24).
If we believe in the worth and dignity of all
human beings — both
male and female —
as image bearers of the living God, then we know full well the work that must be done.