Church says no to women bishops

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9692494/Women-bishops-Churchs-final-no.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/archbishop-church-vetoing-female-bishops

1 Timothy 2 ¹¹ A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. ¹⁵ But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.


Women Imams in Islam is a controversial subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_as_imams

In Judaism it is also controversial. It appears that parts of Judaism accept women rabbis, and others don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi

It is possible for a the Dalai Lama to be female http://www.huffingtonpost.com/april-l-bogle/is-the-time-right-for-a-s_b_773413.html

It appears that women druids exist too http://www.wizardrealm.com/Galadriel/lady.html

Female freemasons are controversial http://beaconofmasoniclight.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/are-there-women-masons.html

Polly Toynbee is President of the British Humanist Association. http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/president-toynbee

I cannot for the life of me think that Christ is carving a church , His Bride, which serves and follows the world. But I do know that the way that Christ does things is so surprising and anachronistic and paradoxical. He will come like a thief in the night.  He says He will. He came like a thief in the night when He was born, and Herod did what he could to kill Him, but His Father always led Him the way He was meant to go, despite all protestations and actions made by us weak human beings.

Perhaps His Church will go the way of His Life : utterly destroyed, and then it will rise again, a new body, a new life. And if that is the way I go; ending up fully subservient to atheistic living, then I will fully deserve the worst of punishments.

There is absolutely nothing we can do do stop God's will.

As time goes by it becomes more and more difficult to understand His word.  And because we live in sin, because we have back slided, it always gives the world the excuse to say : you're hyprocrits anyway.

Somehow we have to find a way of accepting, yes we do sin, but that does not mean , because we sin we should sin more!  But that is what the world implores us to do. It is what we implore ourselves to do! It is like being born into a seedy world, becoming inured to it, and then picking and choosing which bits we want to stay seedy, less seedy, more seedy. We just cannot save ourselves! And I almost feel too insulting to God to even use His Words to say that! I am lost in my own lostness. But even through all that Christ still sets us free from our sins, He still enables us to be righteous before His Father.

On an individual level it is a relief, but how does this exist beyond me and into this world?  Is our church going to end up being a collective of individuals each of us lost in our ways seeking redemption, having decided, through sin, modernisation, equality, diversity, inuration, to all but ignore God's Word except the name Jesus?  Is that what the church will end up being. just "Jesus". Only the name "Jesus" will be the only accepted thing of the Word of God. All other aspects will be up for debate?

If this is true then perhaps John 1, for now, is true "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.".

But elsewhere in the Bible it tells us that God will put His Laws into our hearts.  So why is my heart not enacting His Laws? Why?

When one has suffered much in life, you thank yourself that you were a child once. A child who has suffered for 2 years has accumulated less suffering than a child who has suffered for 10 years with the same form of suffering. The suffering really wears down on you.

The church is suffering, we bear its sufferings, and for some reason God is allowing this. As no one can overcome His Will.

¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.