Epicene & demonic.

I am not going to tell you to look away from this picture. It defines epicene == that which is neither female or male. These women have decided, against the clear teaching of the Catholic Church that they shall ordain themselves priests.

I am not sure if I should thank SSM for the link to that photo, but she hit the spirit of feminism completely in the post. Feminism is rebellion. They ordained themselves because they wanted to.

There are clear qualifications for eldership — and I confess that my church has bent on this and incorrectly allowed women in “for equality” (which is why the gays are using the same argument). The qualifications are that you are a husband of but one wife, able to manage your household, not a new believer, of good reputation in the community and hospitable. The qualifications require that you have a wife who knows her stuff, for if she is not able to cook and clean and manage a house you cannot be hospitable. It requires that both of you teach your children, for the quality of your progeny is a test — if you cannot regulate and raise them right you have no business running the church.

The reformed said that many women have these qualities, and thus should be in eldership, but men generally chafe under female rule (for men are not women). I do not consider that I meet the criteria for eldership: I’m divorced: that disqualifies me. If you add in the theology of the Eucharist (which I do not share) then the priest stands in place of Christ, and Jesus was not epicene. He was male, very male. I can understand the reasons why the RCC want men as priests and can understand why they want them celibate. If you are Catholic, you have to accept the teaching of that church: if not you are across the Tiber.

I think that feminism is idolatry. Given that, one has to consider if it is demonic.

1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1

¹⁴Therefore, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. ¹⁵I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. ¹⁶The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? ¹⁷Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ¹⁸Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar? ¹⁹What do I imply then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. ²¹You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²²Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

²³“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. ²⁴Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other. ²⁵Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience, ²⁶for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.” ²⁷If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁸But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience — ²⁹I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience? ³⁰If I partake with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

³¹So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. ³²Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, ³³just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, so that they may be saved.

¹Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Matthew 8:28-34

²⁸When he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. They were so fierce that no one could pass that way. ²⁹Suddenly they shouted, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” ³⁰Now a large herd of swine was feeding at some distance from them. ³¹The demons begged him, “If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.” ³²And he said to them, “Go!” So they came out and entered the swine; and suddenly, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water. ³³The swineherds ran off, and on going into the town, they told the whole story about what had happened to the demoniacs. ³⁴Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.

I do no think that it is an understatement to say feminist theologians are idolators. They are definitely not biblical, for they see everything as sexism.

The starting point of feminist theology is women’s experience, and the rejection of ‘patriarchy’ (the structure of society whereby men rule women). Women, it is argued, will only become truly human, with the ending of patriarchy. The Bible is a patriarchal text through and through. Some feminist theologians regard the whole text as toxic, others believe that there is a core of helpful teaching that can be retrieved. In looking back over church history, many feminists challenge the sexism of, for example, the early church fathers and reformers, and they seek to recover the ‘hidden history’ of women. Surveying the field of academic theology, many would argue that it is and has been a ‘male-defined’ project.

Theology means study of God; the word theo is a masculine form. Some feminists today prefer to speak of study of thea – feminine form – hence thealogy. Some believe in one God/dess; others in a plurality of goddesses; others still that G*d cannot be named or known – but that whoever G*d is, s/he is in all things and in us too – we look within to find it/her.

Let us put this together.

Firstly, academic feminists are not Christian. Since there is no post Christianity in reality their “post Christian” theology is anti-Christian to frankly pagan. They have another God, and that is their ideology.

Paul pointed out that Idols are of nothing, but the worship of demons. Basic logic then leads to us saying that idolatry is demonic: so are ideologies, for that is making an idol of an idea.

It is therefore logical to say that feminism is demonic. It also explains the hateful and irrational behaviour one sees.

But have hope: Christ can drive out demons, and there are swine in all nations, and a few useful cliffs.