22.)
The selection of 12 disciples, 11 of which were meant to carry on the the Lord
Jesus Christ's works given to him by the Father were all male human beings,
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 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,
which attributes 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, as 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.”
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 point in ordination. The Church of England has no Biblical legitimacy in ordaining both female bishops and priests in the Christian Church. Woman is not made nor is she born in the Image of God.