Jesus referred to Himself a lot as "The Son of Man".
Ezekiel was referred to as Son of Man a lot also - and Daniel was at times.
Newer versions of the Bible have a lot of good things, and get away from archaic King James language - but many times butcher the phrase Son of Man in an effort to be gender neutral.
I just got a Wesley Study Bible, which of course exists in more than own version of the Bible - but I got the Common English Bible. I really like it - except for its translation of "The Human One" where older Bibles have "Son of Man".
Is "Son of Man" really that offensive to female Bible readers that such an awkward and silly phrase as "the Human One" is used instead of Son of Man?
AFAIK, only Jesus, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the pre-existent Christ in the book of Daniel in the fiery furnace - only these - obviously male figures
are referred to as Son of Man
It seems person's inhupersonity to persons to let the Gender Neutrality card guide such bizarre phrasings...
How would you make God the Father "gender neutral"?
Replace every occurence with God the Parent ?
Come on, man!
(Or come on, Person!)
Ezekiel was referred to as Son of Man a lot also - and Daniel was at times.
Newer versions of the Bible have a lot of good things, and get away from archaic King James language - but many times butcher the phrase Son of Man in an effort to be gender neutral.
I just got a Wesley Study Bible, which of course exists in more than own version of the Bible - but I got the Common English Bible. I really like it - except for its translation of "The Human One" where older Bibles have "Son of Man".
Is "Son of Man" really that offensive to female Bible readers that such an awkward and silly phrase as "the Human One" is used instead of Son of Man?
AFAIK, only Jesus, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the pre-existent Christ in the book of Daniel in the fiery furnace - only these - obviously male figures
are referred to as Son of Man
It seems person's inhupersonity to persons to let the Gender Neutrality card guide such bizarre phrasings...
How would you make God the Father "gender neutral"?
Replace every occurence with God the Parent ?
Come on, man!
(Or come on, Person!)