05/05           

A Prayer
of Jesus

I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise
and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will


 SPIRITUAL REPRODUCTION
AND THE GENDER OF GOD


By Edgar Jones



Introduction

God, our Father, is spirit, and spiritual reproduction is the process by which he reproduces his spiritual children.  We are here to investigate that process, and to seek to understand it in terms of the utterances of Jesus of Nazareth, who is our Lord and Master, and our Truth.

About three years ago I wrote and posted a paper on this site entitled The Gender of God.   Within that paper I defined nine points of the "human reproductive pattern" and applied these same points to a "spiritual reproductive pattern," stating that each point in the natural process corresponds to a similar point in the spiritual process.  My motive for writing was to expose the growing feminist practice of applying feminine pronouns to God.  The motive was good, but the method was flawed.  I erred in making natural human reproduction in all its points a metaphor of the spiritual. 

Correcting the error, I revised this paper and published it to a different file.  You can find it here,

http://www.voiceofjesus.org/nogender.html

where you see the radical change that comes to pass when one realizes that Jesus does not teach anything about being born again, but it is all about being begotten from above.