Because we wouldn’t have the fish and loaves tale. Instead, it would have been a three-hour drama of going to the store, in all those crowds, where they didn’t have what she wanted so she had to go somewhere else where there happened to be some nice stuff on sale so picked up a few things and then bumped into an old friend who wanted an opinion on something she’d seen and then they both noticed a sale in this fancy clothes store and then forgot the original purpose so had to go back to the store but it was closed by then so . . . all those 5,00 died of starvation.
First: all of the answer detailing how much more important men were in ancient times are just plain silly. Goddess. Lots of them. From just about every culture. Including Astarte, from the same region as Christ. (Greece was also so very very far away, and those Roman conquerors were just a totally Male God society! Venus my ass.)
More seriously: The story of Christ must also stand the test of certain symbolic constructs that are ancient in origin. Alif has always been masculine. Beth feminine. Even today Elizabeth is a woman’s name.
Oh it’s just so hard to deal with these things when my dictionary has no vowels.
Of course, for the Shakers the Second Coming of Christ was a woman, Mother Ann Lee of 18-century England. Her doctrine was that since Christ was a man the first time around, for completion he had to become female on the rebound. Unfortunately for the Shakers, Mother Ann Lee came up with the total celibacy requirement which made them all extinct as the dodo.
The amount of ignorance in this post is overwhelming. There are no Biblical or Bible “times”, we are always within the timeline of the Bible. Believe in it or not, we will always face the same reality come the time of our physical death.
Believe in the boogyman or the spaghetti monster, see if they save you from oblivion. Jesus was a man simply because men have things women do not have, and vise versa. However, what women have isn’t governance or authority. Can you imagine a world run by women??? That would be a nightmare. Maybe that’s what hell is, lol.
I digress, I strongly suggest you put away your biases and try to understand history, anthropology, philosophy,theology etc. etc. to be able to have the knowledge of deciphering the mess you’ve came up with all in your own head.
Jesus, even as a man, was ignored by the great majority of Jews, managing to gather only a small number of followers. As a woman he couldn’t have done much worse. If it were not for Paul extending the mission to embrace Gentiles Jesus would have been long forgotten by now.
Mary was a virgin when she became pregnant with Jesus, right. So she must have reproduced by parthenogenesis. Parthenogenic offspring are always female. Which means that Jesus actually was female, but pretended to be male. Which means that Jesus was :gasp: transgender…
That’s an old joke which Cecil references in this column.
But parthenogenic vertebrates have some kind of mechanism for restoring chromosomes to being diploid. Otherwise they would run out of chromosomes trying to make generation 3.
BTW, I’m not the first to suggest Jesus was transgender. There was a recent HuffPo blog that made a similar argument. I was not aware of this at the time I made my post.