Why is the Savior of the World a man? Would it disappoint anyone if the Son of God was instead the Daughter of God? How about this: maybe it’s neither.
What was the milieu back in the day? Was there even a word that captured the concept of “feminism?” Mary is venerated because scripture tells us she was a willing and faithful servant who carried and gave birth to Jesus. But Jesus gets top billing. He is the New Testament.
The longer and more deeply one thinks about this, the more tenuous the whole premise becomes, a mere product of ancient times. Or should it matter to anyone that the Savior just happens to be of the male gender? Or is it best not to think about this too much…?
It doesn’t take long to go down the rabbit hole in this exercise.
All I’ll ask is why—why would God open such a can of worms by anointing a son and not a daughter, apart from the fact that this was how the society in which scripture was written already worked? The all-knowing God couldn’t anticipate evolution and change, or an awakening? Or couldn’t somehow communicate to the prevailing male-dominated culture of 2000 years ago that it couldn’t default to a narrative that featured a male hero because they couldn’t conceive of the female of the species being Savior material?
God’s only son. How apropos of the times.
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