Evangelical Feminists Preach “The Watchtower”

To answer the question posed in my last article on Christians for Biblical Equality entitled, What’s Wrong with a “Female Adam” Anyway?, Christians can test the spirit to find that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are teaching the same thing as the evangelical feminists! Do the CBE supporters and board of reference members such as Rebecca Merrill Groothuis realize they are teaching that the demonic doctrines and “ideas” of the JW’s seem to have some “plausibility”? It makes me wonder, have the evangelical feminists been reading The Watchtower (9/1/1956), pp. 530-532? See what I have bolded for emphasis:

"God had now divided the feminine characteristics from Adam and put them in this woman or Ish-shah and thus produced the human sexes." (The Watchtower, p. 530, 9/1/1956)

"When God took the male and female qualities that were combined in balance in the original Adam and divided them between the sexes he did not mean to start any battle of the sexes in the paradise of Eden...Though the man Adam had the feminine properties divided from him and embodied in his wife, he was still left perfect..." (The Watchtower, p. 531, 9/1/1956)

"Perfection united with perfection produces--perfection. A perfect son of Adam and Eve married to a perfect daughter of theirs would bring forth a perfect child. That this was God's will in dividing Adam and producing the sexes male and female God stated at the time he went ahead to produce a wife for Adam." (The Watchtower, p. 531, 9/1/1956)

Also see my rebuttal here .

Since the "Christians for Biblical Equality" web site offers books and articles teaching to call God "mother", and since we have found them quoting from the Unification Church (in support of their teaching that the Holy Spirit is the “feminine person of the Trinity”, as if the Unification cult is representative of authentic Christianity) on their web site

[ www.cbeinternational.org; “The Equalizer,” May, 2005], it is appropriate to point out to this evangelical feminist conglomerate of seminary speakers, seminary professors, and pastors that the Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult, in case they do not know. (And by the way, a group considered to be a "cult" still teaches a different Jesus and a different gospel and a different god, despite a growing trend to give the word "cult" a new meaning, too)! It is important to define our terms. These days, especially when dealing with "evangelical feminists", for instance, when someone mentions "God", we must ask the "evangelical" what he or she means, whether the "Christian" for "Biblical" equality is referring to God as "mother", "Father", or an androgynous, impersonal being left up to our own definition.

TBN and CBE

Here is a follow up to the above post on androgyny, exposing akin beliefs taught from podiums of the Trinity Broadcasting Network…

http://lightingtheway.blogspot.com/2007/08/tbn-and-cbe.html

Dwayna Litz