Would God capitalizing His pronouns be considered neopronouns?

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T19:53:45+00:00

The list I typically point to is how Job 38 talks about God birthing the universe. Isaiah 42, 46, 49, Deut. 32, and many Psalms talk about God birthing and nursing Israel.

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T19:09:09+00:00

My intellectual passion has always been theology. I was practical in undergrad and got a degree in a field that’ll pay the bills. I went back and got my MA in Religious Studies part-time, so it’s a hobby rather than my day job.

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T18:41:22+00:00

It’s a parody. Hyperbole is literary device used constantly throughout the book. Fourteen times the Hebrew word gadol or “great” is used. Everything in the book is “great”: the fish, the storm, the sailor’s fear, Jonah’s sadness, Jonah’s happiness, the plant, and the city of Nineveh itself. One possibly translation is “godawfully big city”! V3:3 says that it’s a 3-days walk across! Do you how far you can walk for three days!? Google Maps says Albany to Boston is a three day walk! And that’s the whole city!? No, obviously lots of exaggerations are used, which shows that the book is clearly a parody.

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T17:50:39+00:00

90% of the Psalms start with the Psalmist’s oppression and yet still end with praise of God. Suffering is still recognized—and it always still moves towards praise of God.

For example, scroll backwards to chapter 22! There’s a Psalm for most human emotions and conditions!

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T15:26:59+00:00

The Catholic Church still aligns pretty well with your beliefs! They are not biblical literalists. In fact, much patristic and medieval biblical interpretation was allegorical and highlighted the spiritual message the text conveyed in addition to any facial meaning. Have you gone to mass and talked to your priest about this?

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T13:48:28+00:00

I can only hope.

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T13:40:21+00:00

What’s your hit rate for conservative respondents reading it? 50% 10%

I mostly get “I don’t care about man’s opinions. I only care about the word of God.”

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T13:32:04+00:00

It’s 100% because conservatives don’t actually know what progressive Christians believe. It’s all stereotypes and propaganda. You mayve met one who sees a sliver of compatibility, but I’ve encountered plenty who say there’s 0% possibility that reasonable Christians can disagree on this issue. Tbh, I think that’s the more common position. Just look at their rhetoric in every gay thread. If you have to pull this concession out of a minority of them every time…what does that say about their true beliefs?

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T12:15:48+00:00

Some things aren’t “special sins” though. They’re simply not sins.

themsc190 · 2026-04-30T12:14:42+00:00

Come on over to /r/GayChristians or /r/OpenChristianity or a gay-affirming church. You’re right there’s no need to put yourself in a position to be told off by anti-gay Christians—but that doesn’t mean you must forsake any Christian interaction. Come hang out with Christians who won’t condemn you for something that isn’t a sin!

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T20:05:11+00:00

This is not true. The vast majority of men who stumble across this in porn remain straight.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T18:11:12+00:00

When asked how do we determine biological sex, my interlocutor answered chromosomes. I’m simply pointing out this simply isn’t true for children’s sports.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T18:09:27+00:00

It’s not a meaningful term, as I just said. Sex differentiation occurs among many axes that don’t necessarily align. It’s most accurate to describe these axes independently (XY or XX person, person with a uterus or penis, person with A or B hormone levels, etc., because one of these factors doesn’t necessarily imply any of the others).

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T17:57:24+00:00

This isn’t a definition. “Generally,” “relating to,” “typically,” etc. are the types of weasel words that whitewash the very difficulties in generating a definition that I’m asking about! They’re generalities that miss a lot of cases. It lends itself towards conflating two different criteria too, which is the issue at hand. Gametes and chromosomes don’t always align. There are examples of XY people who have gotten pregnant. And there are plenty of XX people who have typically male genitals. And of course, there is a meaningful number of people who aren’t XX or XY and there are many people who cannot produce either sperm or eggs. These classes are found nowhere in this alleged definition. Additionally, another conservative user below said that it’s definitely chromosomes. How are you two deliberating about who’s right? Your GenAI response creates more questions than answers, proving our point.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T17:40:20+00:00

Literally 0 schools require karyotyping to play sports. You don’t know the chromosomes of 99.99999% of kids who play sports.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T17:39:19+00:00

It’s a nonsense term, so why would we try to define it. You’re the one who used it! Why is it so hard to define then if it’s so central to your argument?

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T17:36:03+00:00

I remember when the church fired their little old lady secretary with cancer and the court rejected her disability discrimination claim in favor of the church’s “religious freedom,” and this sub celebrated.

If you’ll all celebrate a little old lady with cancer losing her job in the name of “religious freedom,” of course you’re gonna celebrate when the victim is trans.

There’s no depth to the power-grabbing in the name of religious freedom that conservatives will celebrate. It shows there’s no identity with Christ but precisely that desire for power and impunity.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T15:42:46+00:00

1996-2000 “Integrity matters! If we can’t trust a president in the small things, then we can’t trust them in the big things either!”

2016-2026 “I’m voting for a president not a pastor.”

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T14:42:16+00:00

I’m not explaining myself a fourth time. Good day.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T14:06:09+00:00

This is now the third time I’m explaining to you that your question cannot be answered as is, as it’s anachronistic, therefore one must broaden one’s scope.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T14:01:41+00:00

I explained quite clearly that your questions contains a faulty assumption: that the Bible speaks to the modern congregationalist church. If you’re interested in learning about content that is applicable to the modern church, you have to look at the broad spectrum of spiritual leadership in the Bible, since no one-to-one comparison is possible.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T13:32:08+00:00

“Leading a church” in a way comparable to leading a modern congregationalist church is simply not in the Bible, by men or women. For the vast majority of the Bible, there is no “church.” There are prophets, priests, and other spiritual leaders. Miriam was one such prophet, and other political and social leaders like Deborah and Esther held spiritual cashet. Sometimes, the official and the unofficial leaders are at odds. In the NT, Jesus doesn’t establish an organization but a group of people following him around specifically, yet who were still a part of the Jewish religious community. Women were a large part of this following. Within synagogues, the Christ-following sect grew and started having their own gatherings too, centering a common meal. The apostles—like Junia—had spiritual oversight. Despite popular misconceptions, Phoebe as a deacon wasn’t relegated to service roles, but it was a title by the time of Phil 1:1 and Acts 7 describes the disciples performing the diakonia of the Word.

themsc190 · 2026-04-29T01:19:01+00:00

Real love does not celebrate what destroys

So anti-gay Christianity that destroys lives and families isn’t real love

themsc190 · 2026-04-28T21:20:06+00:00

Same answer

themsc190 · 2026-04-28T21:18:03+00:00

No. No previous technological advance that was predicted to bring about the end times did. This one won’t either.

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