Is there actually a good explanation for why women cannot be ordained as priests?

[jkarp]

Women bear children and motherhood. Men do not.

Men bear fatherhood. Women do not.

The priest is a father, not a mother.

This is good but it can be elaborated upon. The Lord has divinely ordered the human race into male and female genders, distinctly separate but perfectly complementary. He has given women the divine privilege of participating in the creation process (yes, the very same one discussed in the book of Genesis) by bearing children. Men do not have this privilege (not many men complain about this either). The Lord has given men the privilege of participating in the divine sacrifice of Christ at Calvary (yes, the very same one discussed in the Gospels).

The perfect example of this complementarity is with Mary and Christ. Mary was the perfect woman and was allowed to participate in the creation process through the incarnation of Christ in her womb. Christ was (still is) the perfect man and it is through His sacrifice on Calvary that we are saved. Important to remember though, the sacrifice might not have happened had Mary not cooperated with her divinely ordered role.

 

[jkarp]

Jesus did not call God “Mother”. If we were to call priests “mother”, would we be refering to God?

Show me revealed truth which would give me reason to think of God as “mother”?

We are the children of God. We are born of women, but we are created by God, who is nowhere “our Mother”.

“Motherhood” is the “balance” vocation to the priesthood. Just as men cannot be mothers, women cannot be priests, because priests are fathers, which women can’t be.

I guess I said very much the same thing as you; you posted just before me though

 

[MH84]

Jesus did not call God “Mother”. If we were to call priests “mother”, would we be refering to God?

Show me revealed truth which would give me reason to think of God as “mother”?

I am not referring to God, but to the priesthood.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Could you re-phrase what you mean here? I don’t quite understand your message.

You suggested that Jesus may have not chosen female apostles because they wouldn’t have been taken seriously. I was showing you that Jesus was perfectly comfortable propping up people whom society considered lowly.

 

[CalmDownWisWins]

Quote:
Jesus did not call God “Mother”. If we were to call priests “mother”, would we be refering to God?

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Show me revealed truth which would give me reason to think of God as “mother”?
I am not referring to God, but to the priesthood.

When we call priests “Father”, we are refering to the “Fatherness” of God as represented by the priest.

Would it make sense to call a woman “Father”?

 

[MarcoPolo]

I am not referring to God, but to the priesthood.

Jesus the high priest is male. The priest acts in the person of Christ. Why didn’t God make Jesus born a female?

Consider these:
2 Cor 4:4 …Christ, Who is the likeness of God.

1 Cor 11:7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God

2 Cor 2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of ChristSo when you say “not God” but the “priesthood,” I think that circumvents the very masculine nature of the priesthood.