Michael Brown
In an August 12th op-ed piece for the New York Times entitled “Is God Transgender?,” Rabbi Mark Sameth claims that “the Hebrew Bible, when read in its original language, offers ‘a highly elastic view of gender’” and that, “Counter to everything we grew up believing, the God of Israel — the God of the three monotheistic, Abrahamic religions to which fully half the people on the planet today belong — was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered deity.”
Are there any truths to these claims? Certainly not......Rabbi Sameth claims that, “The four-Hebrew-letter name of God, which scholars refer to as the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, was probably not pronounced ‘Jehovah’ or ‘Yahweh,’ as some have guessed. The Israelite priests would have read the letters in reverse as Hu/Hi — in other words, the hidden name of God was Hebrew for ‘He/She.’” There is not a stitch of evidence to support this – and I mean not a stitch......To Read More....
My Take - I'm always amazed at how they find these people. When I've watched shows on the Discovery Channel or History Channel dealing with the Bible I've seen rabbis, priests, pastors, ministers of varying sorts saying things that are ....well..... loony! I keep wondering where and how they found these people. I keep wondering why they don't interview someone to refute their loony statements. It's because they're as ignorant as the people they're interviewing and these are the loons who represent the narative they're wishing to confuse everyone with. Having gone to a university and coming out with a degree doesn't mean they're the brightest pebbles in the brook, and it has nothing to do with integrity.
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