[Extracted from the upcoming 820-page 2nd Edition and rewrite of my 1994 book, The Serpent & the Cross. This is from a Chapter about the Feminist Movement entitled “Daughters of Babylon: Rebellion, Witchcraft & Women’s Liberation”. This part of the chapter responds to the requests for God to be spoken of as “God the Mother” – a feminist ploy to derail the creatorship and leadership of the one true God. This extract is a 15-minute read. Enjoy!]

IF YOU RECALL, we looked earlier at the secret aims of Feminism, one of which is destroying the idea of a God who is known as “He” or “Him”. Feminist theologian Naomi Goldenberg wrote:

“Every woman working to improve her own position in society or that of women in general is bringing about the end of God. All feminists are making the world less and less like the one described in the Bible and are thus helping to lessen the influence of Christ and YAHWEH on society” (Naomi R. Goldenberg, Changing of the Gods (Beacon Books, Boston, 1979), p.10)

Once these occultic aims of Feminism are exposed, it is revealed as a stark declaration of war on God and His eternal world-plan. In fact, Goldenberg unashamedly states that “The Feminist movement in Western culture is engaged in the slow execution of Christ and YAHWEH” (Ibid., p.4). This may well prove to be an awkward truth to swallow for the many “soft” feminists who merely wish to see an end to discrimination against women at work. It will be especially awkward for those who profess to be ‘Christian’ feminists. They will have to decide whether or not they are going to be aligned with those who have declared war on the Lord God of all creation — with those who assert that

“God is going to change… We women are going to bring an end to God. As we take positions in government, in medicine, in law, in business, in the arts and, finally, in religion, we will be the end of Him. We will change the world so much that He won’t fit in anymore” (Ibid., p.3).

In short, Feminism is nothing less than a manifestation of the ancient Gnostic art of Jehovah-bashing. Part of that Jehovah-bashing involves the emasculation of God. Let us go into this further…

In February 2023, news reports on a meeting of the ‘synod’ (legislative organisation of the Church of England) were filed documenting that “the Church of England is considering whether to stop referring to God as ‘he’, after priests asked to be allowed to use gender-neutral terms instead” (The Guardian, February 7th, 2023). So the Church of England’s synod made a decision to start seriously looking into using gender-neutral words to refer to God and Jesus. In the top one of the two images attached to this piece, you can see a picture of some of the folks from that synod meeting which made that decision. Note well the rainbow-featured lanyards around some necks. (Synod meetings consist of bishops, clergy and certain laity).

This gender of God business is by no means a new development but has been smouldering for many decades in the mainstream denominations. For example, more than two decades ago the introduction of the new “Worship Book for the Millennium” in 1999 by the Methodist Church in the United Kingdom caused something of a storm in the religious scene and among the media. An article at the time carried the title “Methodists to Worship ‘God the Mother’” (Daily Telegraph, 18th Feb. 1999). The contentious element in that worship book was a prayer which contains a reference to God as “our Mother”. The full prayer reads as follows:

“God our Father and our Mother, we give you thanks and praise for all that you have made, for the stars in their splendour and the world in its wonder and for the glorious gift of human life. With the saints and angels in heaven, we praise your holy name.”

Although this designation of God as “Mother” is not new among liberals and some new evangelicals, this is the first time that it had actually been enshrined in the official liturgy of a mainstream denomination. Neil Dixon, the then secretary of the Methodist Faith and Order Committee, said in defence of this prayer that “it was not an attempt to change the gender of God” (Ibid.). At a press conference in the historic Wesley Chapel in the City of London, Mr Dixon said:

“God is not a person. God is a spirit and is neither male nor female. He is beyond gender. The fact we have used male imagery for centuries has reinforced the image of God as a man. But if all human beings are created in God’s image then feminine as well as masculine attributes must reflect God’s nature” (Ibid.).

Now this is a very clever but highly disingenuous argument. Although some elements of Mr Dixon’s statement about God are true, they should not be used to extrapolate a prayer to God as “Mother”. First, it is true that “God is a spirit and is neither male nor female. He is beyond gender”. But the very fact that Mr Dixon said that “He is beyond gender” highlights that although God is beyond gender, male pronouns and words are used to characterise Him for very special reasons, as I will open up further below. Second, the fact that “feminine as well as masculine attributes must reflect God’s nature” does not denote the existence of “God the Mother”. It is true that the creation of both man and woman in the image of God must manifest a complementarity which represents the being of God (Genesis 1:27c); but this is not at all indicative of an actual “Mother God”. In fact, the image of God in Scripture is not so much represented by gender but by the attributes of righteousness, holiness and knowledge (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10). Those aspects of the image of God were lost to humanity through the fall, but they are renewed in those who are transformed through metanoia and thus become a new creation and thereby disciples of Christ. To root the image of God in the notion of gender is a “red herring” and has only become vogue because of political correctness and in the interests of feminism and the ‘wokeness’ in gender ideology.

Second, it would seem that to address God as “Mother” is being falsely justified on the basis of certain Scriptures which attribute feminine characteristics to God. The secretary of the Methodist Faith and Order Committee is quite correct to say that God is spirit and therefore cannot possibly be either male or female. He is also correct to say that feminine imagery is used metaphorically in Scripture to describe the character of God (e.g., Isaiah 66:13; Psalm 131; Matthew 23:37). But while the use of such imagery is perfectly acceptable — our great God being a nurturing God, displaying a ‘motherly’ characteristic — it is entirely specious to then make the leap into directly addressing God as Mother in prayer, which is part of a wider agenda to castrate God and bring the Divine Logos into the service of the feminist narrative.

It is important for us to understand exactly what is being confused here? The fact that feminine imagery is used to convey an aspect of the character of God does not give us leave to address God as if He is a female person. It is not because God happens to have ‘fatherly attributes’ that we pray to Him as “Our Father”. The reason we pray in this manner is because He IS THE Father! Let us examine this a little more closely.

Obviously we can have no truly complete conception of God, but we can certainly say that He is neither exclusively male nor exclusively female, since both men and women were originally made in His image. But it is also just as mistaken to speak of God as being androgynous or hermaphroditic — i.e., both masculine and feminine — as some evangelicals do today, in line with their Jungian analysis of human psychology. God transcends gender altogether, in spite of the fact that the Bible speaks of God with male pronouns. Why this should be I will explain below. In this light, it is completely unnecessary for women to become embroiled in tortured debate about whether or not the Bible is offensive to them because of the constant references to God as ‘Father’ and ‘He’, or because the Redeemer of the world incarnated in a male body.

Question: Why are male pronouns are used to speak of God in the Bible? There are good reasons for this. The Scriptures could never refer to God as “It”, for that would remove the essentially personal nature of the Almighty. Men and women are not made in the image of an “It”! In the first place, God is surely referred to as “He” because the male is the Leader and Pioneer and Author, Originator and Designer of all creation and of all genuine authority. Feminists despise that idea and give it the nickname of “patriarchy”. But what they disparagingly call “patriarchy” — the leadership and initiative of the male and the masculine — is actually how this created world operates. The world was created and designed to be patriarchal. The moral degeneration of feminism and its hatred of God finds that repugnant. Feminists are so caught up in their vain gender-egos and their rampant penis-envy — not to mention extreme ‘daddy-issues’ — that they cannot bear God to be characterized as male or masculine in any way. This is why the current battle is raging concerning gender-pronouns and God as mother.

Another related aspect concerning why God should be called “He” or “Him” in the sacred Scriptures is an absolutely crucial one. This is is put into perspective by Professor Roger Nicole when he states that God had to be represented as a male in the Bible because:

“to do otherwise would have undoubtedly severely curtailed the understanding of his majesty; and the licentious developments in religions where female deities are found would manifest the appropriateness of avoiding this representation in Old Testament times” (Walter A. Elwell, Ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Book House, 1985, p.1177.).

This is a very perceptive point and is especially relevant today because the very feminists who are pushing to have God as “Mother” are also heavily into “the Goddess” as a religious emblem of their cult. [See, this link, for example: “Why Women Need the Goddess”, https://www.goddessariadne.org/why-women-need-the-goddess-part-1 . See also the publicity image attached ( bottom image) about Aluna Moon’s “Goddess workshops” for feminists, a common event occurrence these days. A few decades ago, this stuff was confined to a relatively small number of whacked-out witches. But now Wicca has gone mainstream. So here you can see the real agenda behind the removal of the one true God referred to as “He”.

It is no coincidence that many of the people who are clamouring for the removal of male pronouns which refer to Deity in the Bible are those who are avidly worshipping the goddess today, or promoting the ‘Gaia’ concept, or — at the very least — conspiring to replace male headship with a contrived ‘equality’. There is nothing new under the sun. God’s wisdom in representing Himself as male through His servants who penned the Bible can therefore be seen to be highly astute and entirely appropriate because “licentious developments” and the exaltation of “female deities” are as rampant in the present apostate times as they were in Old Testament times, as I showed in an earlier section of this chapter.

Furthermore, to take away the male pronouns in reference to Deity would be to do irreparable damage to the teaching of the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — upon which a true understanding of the Godhead of Scripture depends. Above all, we speak specifically of the ‘Father’ and the ‘Son’ precisely because Jesus did so (John 6:40; 10:36; 14:13). Even more to the point, we can wholeheartedly pray to God as Father because Jesus did so (John 17:1). Only the most fiendishly rebellious persons would dare to set themselves against the pattern laid down by the Founder of our faith. In truth, the whole Gospel message is offensive to the entire unregenerate human race, and no mere tampering with a few pronouns will remove that offence.For the world hates Christ, and it hates those who are disciples of His (John 15:18; 17:14). This world which is under the power of Satan hates Christ because He “testifies that its works are evil” (John 7:7). This is what the world cannot tolerate, because it is the truth. So the world has to keep beavering away in the vain attempt to negate the power of that truth. The attempted detection of so-called ‘sexism’ in biblical literature and the parallel campaign to ‘unmale’ God is one of those vain attempts and is a superfluous activity carried out by messed-up women consumed with demonic anger and ‘woke’ men (known colloquially as ‘simps’) who are hellbent on the attempted castration of a God who delights in His ‘fatherdom’.

It is surely something of an embarrassment that while Protestant denominations are running helter-skelter to abandon the necessary teaching of God as ‘Father’, one can find numerous excellent defences of this teaching even in certain Roman Catholic circles. A superb example of this sort of apologetics can be found in an article entitled “Does the Bible Support the Feminist God/dess?” See https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/does-the-bible-support-the-feminist-goddess-12316 . In the past few years there has been an increasing number of Catholics who — despite their blind spots on such subjects as Transubstantiation, the corruption of the Papacy and the over-exaltation of Mary — appear to be more aware of a number of the deceptions of this age than many of today’s wishy-washy, happy-clappy Protestant evangelicals. What a judgement on the Church!

Rest assured that this is no mere side-issue. It is part of the vital ground on which the faith will be seen to stand or fall during the coming years. (I speak of its appearance only). This can be witnessed in certain events which are shaping up at this point in history. Let me pose a couple of provocative questions: How would you respond if a so-called ET or alien (androgynous, of course) was to appear on earth claiming that the God whom all have been worshipping under different names for millennia is really an alien from a parallel universe? What if such a being also claimed that it was paving the way for the second coming of Christ which has been awaited by followers of Christ for 2000 years? Do you think this is far-fetched? My friends, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Some very flaky global events are going to take place in the coming years. Such outlandish things are by no means impossible in the light of Scripture’s teaching on the Antichrist and the strange satanic “power, signs and pseudo-wonders” which will surround this mysterious event (2 Thessalonians 2:9).

The direction in which the Church of England and many other mainstream denominations are heading has been their inevitable direction for decades. Theological liberalism, ‘wokeness’ and a blind eye turned towards the large number of sexual perverts in their midst all go hand in hand with the apostate castration of God the Father. Understanding the nature of God, the Manhood of Christ and the need for Divine Fatherhood (and its derivative male leadership in this world) in the face of the pagan, Christ-hating, genderbending outburst of evil currently afflicting humanity is most necessary as we come closer to the end of “this present evil age”. Who says that the disciples of Christ have no need to get genned up on essential apologetics? This excursus on the gender of God should prove to you that we do… in haste.

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