Female Friendly Bibles?

I would like to try & help you if I may. The Church has a long, well documented history of the persecution & open denigration of women. It has been the boast of the Catholic Church for centuries. It is interesting to note, that when compared side by side, Jesus had entirely different views of what women should be & do as opposed to St Paul's views on women in "his" church - which is what we now have today. We see this same sort of thing reflected in the Old Testament books where the prophets taught the same teachings as Jesus, but the scribes & the Pharisees, whom Jesus also had frequent encounters with, wrote & taught another message, not unlike St Paul's. These are sometimes known as the Hebrew Holy Forgeries. In order to understand why certain passages in the Holy Bible were exclusive of women, we have to look at the audience. Was the teaching addressed to a crowd of followers of mixed gender or an inner circle of close disciples? For that reason, we get expressions like "Sons of God". It is interesting to note, that in other writings from that time, there were many references to the feminine aspect of God even & many more which spoke of women in exalted terms. The Gospel of May Magdalene, for instance, contains a profound statement by Mary, "I rested upon the spirit of God & she lifted me up to heaven". You may download any number of these ancient texts for free from www.sacred-texts.com. Or, if you prefer, I can PM you some links to more. If I show them to everyone on here, Christians will rate me into My Lot hell! It has happened before.

If you are looking for a gender friendly Christian bible, good luck in finding it! Christianity is not, and never has been friendly to women. With the exception of "Mary Mother of God," there are no feminine friendly passages in the Christian Bible. There has been agitations for years, for the Pope to ordain women Priests, but the Pope has not only ignored that, but continues his restriction of male Priests from marrying.

Well 'man' and 'men' originally meant person and persons, females were 'wifmen' and males were 'wapmen' and in modern English 'men, man, he, etc.' are used both to denote male and also as universal pronouns. There has been in recent time an attempt by academics to try and change language usage to some form they consider more equitable but it is not for academics to tell us how to use our language. Sons of God is rather different and perhaps stems from the contemporary mores of the day, the original covenant between God and the ancient Jews was between God and the males and the males where required to ensure that women complied, thus women were included only indirectly in the covenant. Of course we now live in more enlightened times and the non-conformist Churches, particularly Quakers have inclused women fully from early times all the best urban