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If Yeshua’s Mother Was Not a Virgin, Would You Still Believe He Is God?: The Implications of Women’s Sexuality for the Christian Religion.

What does it matter to Yeshua's claims to divinity that his mother was a pregnant virgin? What would it have mattered if he'd been birthed by a non-virgin woman? Would his divinity have been questioned, rejected or mattered less? If yes, then we are looking at a situation where salvation of humanity depends on women's sexuality.

Academia & Gender Equality, Church & Gender Inequality, Ethnic Equality, Ethnic Reconciliation, Eve in Redemption's Story, Feminine Imagery & Language for God, Gender Equality for Women of Color, God, Women & Covenant, Jesus & Feminism, Kingdom Living, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, New Creation Women of Advent, New Testament Women of Advent, Old Testament Women of Advent, People of Color & Christmas, The Holy Spirit & Equality, VOCCU, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color in Advent

When Mary Led…

"...a new kind of woman is found in Mary and in her connection to and with Jesus:.."

Church & Gender Inequality, Ethnic Equality, Gender Equality for Women of Color, Jesus & Feminism, Kingdom Living, Mary, Mother of God, VOCCU, Women , The Incarnation & Christmas, Women of Color in Advent

Eve, Inheritor of the First Promise

"God gave Eve hope by giving her something to look forward to after the temptation and its consequences...God's promise to save, to redeem, etc., first came to us in a woman, Eve!"

Church & Gender Inequality, Ethnic Reconciliation, Eve in Redemption's Story, Gender Equality for Women of Color, Kingdom Living, Mary, Mother of God, Mary, Mother of Jesus, The Holy Spirit & Equality, Women of Color in Advent

Why a Women of Color In Advent Series?

"Because too often, the story of redemption has been passed down to us through the voices of the patriarchs (thereby setting the scene for the flourishing of patriarchy) and not through matriarchs and patriarchs (the latter, which would set the tone of mutuality and equality as God intended from the very beginning),..."