SWEDISH CHURCH WORSHIPS
"GENDER FLUID" JESUS
Jesus has feminine qualities, claims
church official
BY KIT DANIELS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Claiming that gender “isn’t determined at birth,” a Swedish church is worshipping a “gender fluid” Jesus.
The Swedish Church in Västerås recently placed a Christmas ad in a local newspaper that used a gender-neutral pronoun (yes, those actually exist in Sweden) to refer to Christ, which prompted a major backlash.
“We didn’t want to assign a gender to Jesus right away at birth,” said church leader Susann Senter in response to critics, translated from Swedish. “Theologically, we’re talking about Jesus as true God and man.”
“A human is not just ‘he.’”
Well, that’s not according to Jesus’s followers who said he referred to Himself as the Son of God the Father.
But Senter also claimed Jesus has “feminine” qualities.
“If I’m a little provocative: Most 19th and 20th century depictions of Jesus are quite feminine,” she explained. “He is gentle, has curly hair and is not very physically powerful.”
And, true to her progressive agenda, Senter was proud to announce her church’s “gender equality program.”
“We have set aside two working days for all employees to talk about equal treatment… how we cuddle each other has been one of the topics,” she stated.
The Church of Sweden has similarly encouraged clerics to use “gender neutral” pronouns when referring to God instead of “Lord” or “He,” as I reported in November.
The largest church in the country said it wants to be more “inclusive,” a countrywide trend that began when Swedes started appeasing Muslim migrants.
“Of course, the traditional expressions of Christian faith remain in the new worship book, however, some gender-neutral ways of addressing God have been added in some prayers,” said church official Sofija Pedersen Videke, with emphasis added. “As in Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is now grammatically female also in the Swedish Worship Book, following our Bible translation from year 2000.”
Notice how in the space of a month, this simple inclusion of “gender neutral” prayers has already led at least one church to avoid referring to Jesus as a man.
That’s how the self-hating progressive agenda advances: take a mile for every inch.
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/27858-swedish-church-uses-gender-neutral-pronoun-for-jesus
EXCERPTS:
"In an advertisement for its Christmas service, a church in the city of Vasteras used the pronoun hen in reference to the Christ child. Hen “is used to refer to non-binary people or in cases where a person's gender is not known or not relevant,” explained the website thelocal.se. In other words, the church employed an ambiguous pronoun even though the sex of its antecedent, Jesus, is well-established.
Mikael Mogren, the bishop of Vasteras, also stuck up for the ad’s use of hen, saying that while Jesus was clearly a man, “Jesus shares the life of every human being, not just men.”
Furthermore, wrote thelocal.se:
In short, church officials have bought into the entire “progressive” agenda and are trying to use their positions of authority to advance it."
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/27858-swedish-church-uses-gender-neutral-pronoun-for-jesus
EXCERPTS:
"In an advertisement for its Christmas service, a church in the city of Vasteras used the pronoun hen in reference to the Christ child. Hen “is used to refer to non-binary people or in cases where a person's gender is not known or not relevant,” explained the website thelocal.se. In other words, the church employed an ambiguous pronoun even though the sex of its antecedent, Jesus, is well-established.
Mikael Mogren, the bishop of Vasteras, also stuck up for the ad’s use of hen, saying that while Jesus was clearly a man, “Jesus shares the life of every human being, not just men.”
Furthermore, wrote thelocal.se:
He added that some of the critical
comments aimed at the church had included insults towards trans people,
and said: “Trans people are created by God, your bodies belong to the
beautiful and extraordinary creation of God.”
Mogren went on to say that while debate over Jesus’ gender might seem
trivial, he found it significant because of the existence of
patriarchal structures and the ways in which some rulers used Christian
faith to justify oppression of women or to deny personal gender
identities beyond male and female.In short, church officials have bought into the entire “progressive” agenda and are trying to use their positions of authority to advance it."