Can One Trust the New Testament Canon is Correct?

[JonNC]

I respect your opinion too, I just feel that a sexist type of Christianity cannot be from a good God. Just like a sexist type of Judaism, or a sexist type of Islam, etc. That is my skin in the game. I have the right to my opinion. And I believe that if God exists and is good, then he or she feels the same, so disagrees with you. I am just seeking truth. I want to believe that a good God exists. I want to believe that for example my parents, who died years ago, have a good afterlife.

You didn’t respond to my post. Let me rephrase: is it sexist for the Bible to claim that Jesus was born of a Virgin without the cooperation or participation of a human male?

 

[rightness]

Proximity to the time of Christ is important. Obviously, the Catholic Church created and assembled the New Testament. I think there are some writings and letters that are out there, like the Revelation of Peter, that could have been included, but the Early Church didn’t through inspiration.

It’s like how the four Gospels wrote exclusively for what’s necessary and not everything Jesus had done. I remember Martin Luther wanted to get rid of the Letter of James because it countered Sola Fide, of course none of his followers bought into it.

 

[JonNC]

I remember Martin Luther wanted to get rid of the Letter of James because it countered Sola Fide, of course none of his followers bought into it.

Source, please.
While I disagree with Luther’s criticism of James regarding works, this was not his reason for holding the position that James was in the antilegomena, a position going all the way back to Eusebius and others.

 

[MiserereMei]

I just feel that a sexist type of Christianity cannot be from a good God.

Not to take us further afield of the point of this thread, but could you perhaps define what you mean by “sexist” and what you mean and imagine when you say “a good God”?

I have been following your conversation, but cannot find a clear answer as to what you, specifically, mean by those terms. If I missed it, I am sorry.

 

[rinnie]

We call that faith. The same way we believe the advocate the Holy Spirit is still leading the charge CC.

 

[rinnie]

Huh my husband is a male and I am a female. We do not feel one is less equal to the other. we treat one another with equal respect. But it doesn’t make me a male nor him a female.

 

[mcq72]

I respect your opinion too, I just feel that a sexist type of Christianity cannot be from a good God.

Would it help to know that in heaven we will be like the angels in the sense that we will not be given in marriage , and I dare say will not indulge in sex yet will be intimate spiritually with the Godhead and each other.

That God portrays Himself in human terms is understandable, but I would think the Godhead is much more, and incorporates all that is male and all that is female, I mean He created both. Jesus is not beyond feeling and understanding anything that is male and anything that is female.

Finally, the spiritual reality to life and the kingdom far outweighs anything of the flesh. The flesh, female and male, reveals the beauty that is God the Spirit, and Jesus the man, and Jesus the Creator. And God is an equal opportunity Spirit, that the spirit of a man and a women can equally be one with Him, and even begin to see God the I Am.