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Continued Investigation of the Image of God according to the Holy Bible.

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  One 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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