Current Issues: Why God Sent a Son (not a Daughter)

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/jesusmalemp3/"><strong>website</strong></a>.</p><p>THE QUESTION: Why did the <i>man </i>Jesus come to earth? Why not a <i>woman: </i>the daughter of God—a female Messiah?</p><p>JESUS CAME AS A SON <i>NOT </i>BECAUSE:</p><ul><li>Male is better -- Galatians 3:28 contradicts this.</li><li>God is only analogically masculine, not sexually masculine. When we pray <i>Our Father, </i>it’s not because God is male – since he isn’t a sexual being. If this intrigues you, please hear the podcast on <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/?p=489"><i>The Shack</i></a><i>.</i></li><li>Random genetics (50/50).</li></ul><p>LAMENTABLY, WOMEN WERE DISCOUNTED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD</p><ul><li>Christianity hadn't transformed attitudes towards minorities, the disenfranchised, foreigners, the needy, women--since Christianity did not exist yet. Jesus entered a Jewish world.</li><li>Would be discounted in Roman eyes:<ul><li>“Only foolish and low individuals, and persons devoid of perception, and slaves, and women, and children, of whom the teachers of the divine word wish to make converts” -- Celsus in Origen, <i>Contra Celsus, </i>3.49</li><li>"...Augustus confined women to the back rows even at gladiatorial shows: the only ones exempt from this rule being the Vestal Virgins… No women at all were allowed to witness the athletic contests…" -- Suetonius, <i>Twelve Caesars, Augustus </i>44.</li></ul></li><li>Would be discounted by Judaism:<ul><li>"... happy is he whose children are males, and woe to him whose children are females." -- Talmud <i>Kiddushim </i>82b</li><li>"But let not the testimony of women be admitted, on account of the levity and boldness of their sex, not let servants be admitted to give testimony on account of the ignobility of their soul, since it is probable that they may not speak truth, either out of hope of gain, or fear of punishment." -- Josephus <i>Antiquities </i>4.8.15</li><li>"Sooner let the words of the Law be burnt tha