Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Well, friends, we are in the very last episode of the Women's Issue series. This has been so much

fun and I'm so glad to have this series available as a resource to backless in and refer to

as these questions come up. And again, I know that this is just a really big picture view of these

topics, but I'm hoping that it inspires you to go deeper on the individual themes of these

episodes if you are so inclined. So in this episode, we're just going to talk about the questions

that some of you had related to the previous episodes. This won't be a deep dive. I'm just doing

a quick Q&A over the Women's Issues series. And so the first question that we had was,

how does Jesus relate to women since he was incarnated as a man? And that is a great question.

Jesus didn't come as a man and God revealed himself with male pronouns. So how can Jesus

and God sympathize with women and their struggles if Jesus was a man? To answer this, you have to

realize first, Genesis 1, 27 to 28 tells us that both man and woman were made in God's image.

So just because God has revealed himself using a male pronoun, using the term father, I will be

a father to you. You will be a son to me. He also uses a lot of language reflective of the nurture

and motherly nature of himself. So for instance, Jesus, when he talks about Jerusalem says,

Oh, Jerusalem, I wish I could gather you as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,

but you were not willing. That's a motherly sort of analogy between himself and Jerusalem.

We also see that the character traits of Jesus and of God himself, of compassion and kindness

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