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WHY NO WOMEN PRIESTS

Reverend I.P.S.G. COSBY



III. CHRISTIAN GOD/MAN RELATIONSHIP REVERSED

In the Biblical world-order there is the world of Heaven that envelopes and is beyond the world of the physical Creation, both of which the Kingdom of GOD embraces. In the heavenly world of the Resurrection we are as the angels, neither marrying or being given in marriage.²⁰⁾ It would appear that physical maleness and femaleness will have become an anachronism, given that the purposes of these two estates, namely procreation in Earth and the respective duties required of each in the stewardship of that Creation will have passed.²¹⁾ It can be understood that GOD is not male in any physical sense, but He is masculine in that He is answerable (i.e. Responsible²²⁾) for Creation. The iconic physical representation on earth of what that means is Manhood, hence the rectitude of the pronoun “He” being applied to GOD. In this order of creation, physical male Man’s authority is restricted and confined only to the created order of things in this world. It is a particular and temporary headship applicable only to the affairs of this Temporal World. Woman and womanhood, on the other hand, is the iconic role model for what is Man’s relationship to GOD. This is not confined to the Temporal World, but applies to and reflects the GOD/Man relationship for all of eternity in the realm of heaven. Just as there is no giving in marriage in heaven, nor are there those given in marriage, there is also no subordination of womanhood to manhood in the relationship of one to the other. In the humanistic cultural order where neither GOD nor heaven exist, there is no place or function for the feminine role model. It is meaningless. All there is, is the iconic role model of manhood as being something of any value, because only the Created Order is believed to exist. It explains why the concept of womanhood in secular humanism is not just secondary, but essentially has no place or value at all. Hence, ‘Women’s Liberation’ has become shorthand for women being free to do what men do. Nothing could be more undermining and demeaning of womanhood. For the Christian, on the other hand the iconic role that is manifested in and designated to womanhood, it can be argued, far exceeds in value the iconic role model vested in manhood, which is restricted to the affairs of the temporal not to the heavenly world.

Christ drew attention to, and affirmed the biblical world order regarding the validity
of Womanhood.²³⁾ When a young man asked what must he do to inherit eternal life, Christ referred him to the two Great Commandments²⁴⁾: to love GOD with all his heart etc, and to love his neighbour as himself. Christ then went on to illustrate what it meant to fulfil those two commandments. He used a man and the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate what is Man’s duty to his neighbour. Immediately, in juxtaposition to the parable, St Luke cited Christ using a live woman, Mary, and the historical incident in her and Martha’s house, to illustrate what is to be answerable to GOD. Note that he chooses, Mary, a woman, to demonstrate the primary importance of sitting, metaphorically speaking at the LORD’s feet. By so doing Mary was giving herself unreservedly to the LORD, the role model of being answerable to Christ. This attitude is deliberately contrasted with the overbearing manner of her sister, who is telling Christ what should be the order of things. Telling someone to do something is exercising authority over that person.


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20) 　For in the resurrection, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Mt. 22: 32]
21) 　Genesis 1: 28
22) 　All who exercise sovereignty e.g. king’s/presidents of sovereign independent states etc, ultimately are answerable to GOD for their temporal authority. GOD is uniquely the source of all authority in that there is nothing beyond GOD to whom He is ultimately answerable, hence He is uniquely GOD Almighty, King of Kings, Lord God of Hosts, Lord of Lords, etc.
23) 　Luke 10: 25
24) 　Mark 12: 28–3

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