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transitions to the time of Jesus to make yet another point amongst many others which
have strongly advocated this position and which converge to a point certainty in the
argument. In the selection of the Lord's 12 disciples, 11 of which were meant to carry
on the the Lord Jesus Christ's works given to him by the Father, note that they were
all male human beings, men being Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee,
Philip,Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Lebbaeus, Simon the
Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot.(Mathew 10:2-4)
As pointed out previously in Pt. 16, God
is supremely meticulous, ordered, and purposeful in his divine omniscience where every
purpose and decree he enacts governs the natural order of the world. Therefore, the
male only composition of his disciples alludes to the fact that Genesis
1:26 & 27, whichattributes
God's authority given to to man by God in man's male gender as the only portion of
humanity which posses God's image from birth in one's physical body, is attested in
the Holy Bible by this purposeful divine selection of the Lord's disciples. We know
that these disciples were selected by God because Jesus himself proclaimed it in John
17:11-12.
John
17:11-12 -“And
now I am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own
name those
whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
To
mark recent events concerning the same notion, Reverend Paul Williamson, Vicar of
Saint Georges Hanworth in South West London, objected seemingly as the sole objector
to the consecration of the Church of England's 1st Female
Bishop on these terms at the ceremony in York, England.
Reverend
Williamson stated “The
pattern of Ecclesiastical Leadership given in the scriptures is male leadership.”“The
Lord Jesus Christ made a very deliberate choice of those who were to carry on his
work. We cannot turn round and say that it is wrong.”
(World News Group airing on 1-29-15)
I concur with Reverend Paul Williamson. The Church of England has no Biblical in ordaining both female bishops and priests in the Christian Church. The Church of England belongs rightfully to the Lord Jesus Christ (if it is Christian?), and does not rightfully belong to anyone to ordain blaspemy. Woman is not made nor born in the Image of God.
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