WI - Jesus had been female?

Keenir

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Just out of interest, and not knowing that much about Judaism - who would be some of our best parallels from Jewish theology & scripture?

for one, Deborah, who led the defense of Judea against a (canaanite/hittite?) invasion.

I don't know much of Judaism either.
 

Stephen

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Like some other godess worshiping religions will this religion encorage castration amongst it its male adherants like the Cybele cult.
 

Tom Kalbfus

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Like some other godess worshiping religions will this religion encorage castration amongst it its male adherants like the Cybele cult.
No, its about the message, not the messanger.
There's all this obsession about the messanger, and I think its not very important.
 
Given the condition of women in that time and place, she would have had a pretty anonymous and hard life, and she would have been inmediately stoned by the angry populace at the first word of preaching...

...Unless you're one of those who think that Jesus was actually able to cast spells... then the thread would become more interesting, but it would be in the wrong section.
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He performed Miracles. Not spells.
 
No, its about the message, not the messanger.
There's all this obsession about the messanger, and I think its not very important.

Its not an obsession, the messenger does matter quite a bit. You are right the message is important but how it get interpreted depends on the messenger. This does not only mean male or female; had Jesus been born in a rich noble family the whole "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" would seem kinda hypocritical. Sure in the end this was still twisted around or shoved aside and interpreted in many ways to allow the church to get rich, but the initial interpretations and the prophets initial impression on people would have been different thus affecting everything else in the process.

For the most part Jesus seemed to ignore the whole gender debate for the most part and opted for the socio-economic one instead. Had he been a woman I am certain somebody would have asked something about it in one of his sermons and thus it would have been much more prominent in at least one gospel.

Change Christianity in anyway and you most certainly also change Islam. Thus pretty much affecting the beliefs of over 2/3 of the world if not more. Completely changing culture in the process as well.
 

Keenir

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Its not an obsession, the messenger does matter quite a bit. You are right the message is important but how it get interpreted depends on the messenger. This does not only mean male or female; had Jesus been born in a rich noble family the whole "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" would seem kinda hypocritical.

why's that? Buddha was born to a rich family.
 
That means the mother is not a true female. There are some women with the XY gene, because of some deformity that causes insensitivity to male hormones such that male organs do not develop and is by default female though genetically male. I would think such a "female" would miscarry alot because sometimes you would get the YY result which doesn't produce a human being, probably a mass of cells instead.

Look up chimeras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
 
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