WHY NO WOMEN PREISTS Rev. Ivan Cosby's Paper

Rev. Cosby's PaperCONCEPT

WHY NO WOMEN PRIESTS

Reverend I.P.S.G. COSBY

V. CONCLUSION
This paper has served to draw attention to, and explain the raison d’être for the ordination of priestesses and the reason why such a phenomenon should have come about despite there being no justification for, or condoning of the practice, in Holy Scripture (The Bible.)

In general, but for Christians in particular, it is important to understand why it is that this heathen practice has been widely condoned or justified in societies that are mostly western European and American. It includes certain Churches that purport to be Christian in these regions. It is important because there is not, throughout the Old and New Testament, even the slightest reference or suggestion that the practice was ever condoned.

Furthermore, there is no reference whatever made by Christ that there should be such a phenomenon in Christendom, let alone any suggestion that it be condoned.

This paper has, on the other hand drawn attention to passages of Scripture, and to the teaching of Christ that render such a practice wholly inappropriate if his teaching and morality are to be adhered to. This paper has made the case that the so-called current rectitude of ordaining women to the priesthood has to be found elsewhere other than Holy Scripture.

Although there is no justification in Holy Scripture, or in anything revealed or taught by Christ, the paper makes the case that the justification and rectitude of the ordination of priestesses can clearly be seen to have origins in ideas spawned by Western philosophical thinking generally, but most particularly in the outworking and application of Hegel’s concept of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis.

The paper shows that during the 20th century, the adoption and application of the ideas of what is collectively known as the Frankfurt School of intellectual thinkers, many of whose ideas can also be traced back to Hegel, have also been instrumental, if not influential in moulding values and opinions that are favourably disposed to the ordination of priestesses. There are other important factors that have contributed to the contemporary Western World having converted from Christianity to Humanism.

The concern of this paper is only with the humanistic philosophical ideas that have contributed to, or caused people to think and believe in the rectitude of women being ordained priestesses. In addition, the paper has shown how the redefinition of what is meant by freedom and equality from a Christian definition of those terms to a humanist definition has altered the act of ordaining women to the priesthood from being one of irregularity to one of normality.

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acting Hamlet arguably is inspired by contemporary ‘Masculinism’ see previous page

Finally, the paper in projecting forward the consequences of these changes, has drawn attention to what social, or what today would still be called unsocial degrading practices, behaviour that logically will become socially acceptable and right in the not too distant future.

Fifty years ago, in the early post World War II era homosexuality was widely seen from a Christian perspective. It was considered wrong, because it served to undermine Almighty GOD’s intensions for the due relationship between the sexes, and how this reflected the GOD/Man relationship. It was also wrong on account of what was a natural wholesome stable physical order of procreation. It was, and arguably is, an anathema and understood to be destructive and undermining of natural social cohesion.

The paper has tried to demonstrate that there has been a shift in perceptions and of values, not just from a Christian perspective, but from the perspective of what is actually real and true. The new order founded on humanist philosophical values, has consequences that are unanticipated. It is irresponsible not to look at the logic of progression to discover what these consequences will be. The point that this paper is making is that this Post Christian cultural order must project forward to consider to what, or to where their values are logically and ultimately leading.

The paper has drawn attention to where it believes the current humanistic order of values is leading, namely to the rectitude of bestiality, a system of Law that denies any parameters to measure rectitude owing to the rejection of the principle of Absolutes. There are consequences to the reversal of the prescribed relationship and roles traditionally associated and reserved to the respective sexes.

The same is true of a world where the concept of authority not only has become anathema but, in reality, is largely absent. When a world order cannot continue to function in any meaningful sense of the word, because the concepts of hierarchy and authority are anathema, there will be a general descent into chaos and uncontrolled violence. Human as opposed to ‘animal’ civilisation will have ceased to exist. Of particular concern, will be the emergence on the one hand of an irresponsible, dangerous, difficult to control manhood, because of the physical strength of men; and on the other hand, there will also emerge an effeminate manhood incapable of exercising either responsible protection or authoritative headship.

We are already seeing how these two traits in manhood are emerging. We have only to draw attention to the mass killings taking place in the United States, and to where men and women are being confined to live in close quarters which potentially, or actually are physically dangerous situations, whether it be aboard nuclear submarines or attached to fire brigade crews.

Cross dressing on the part of women is so widespread, that it has become the norm. The practice is still in its infancy in respect of men but it is being widely encouraged in certain quarters, and once this practice becomes mainstream, it will have a significant impact on what one expects of manhood.

The Christian world order understands that the function of men is to provide for, and protect their women and children. The same is true of other social systems and cultures of the world that are founded on reality and have some understanding of how the real world actually is. In other words, the greatest protection women have from the predation and violence of men, (and to a somewhat less extent violent or predatory women,) are men.

In the first instant, it is the duty of a father, a husband and brothers, but in a safe world for women at large, it is the duty of men in general to ensure women’s safety and well-being. That is the order to which a sexually stable and safe society aspires.