Some say a patriarchal society was the reason

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Some say a patriarchal society was the reason

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for a masculine Judeo-Christian God; yet, Israel's pre-existing and co-existing pagan neighbors (e.g. Canaanites, Greeks, Egyptians, and Persians) had prominent goddesses and priestesses. They were quite at-home with male and female religious images, although not in economics, politics, or in the military. Why didn't God make use of this pre-existing religious mindset by using the Mother/She title in revelation to the emerging Israel or to the Apostles? Indeed, Israel not using feminine personal names and pronouns for deity was counter-cultural. [1]

Absolutely nowhere in Sacred Scripture is God called Mother. Rather it is just the brother cell phone list opposite, whereby Jesus refers to God only as the Father numerous times which prove both Jesus' Sonship and God's Fatherhood in a proper physical sense [2] [3]. Several examples are shown below (source: RSV Catholic Edition):

Matthew 11:27 "All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him"

John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."

John 5:26 "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself"

John 1:18 "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known."
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