Judging God
Sitting in the sacrament meeting as the emblems of Christ’s atonement were being passed, my drama teacher began to get annoyed. A man on her row had been taking the sacrament with his left hand. “How disrespectful” she thought; “to refuse to use the covenant hand, the clean hand, to partake of such sacred emblems.”
At the conclusion of the meeting, she was shocked when they rose to leave and she noted that the man was missing his right arm.
Humans know a lot. We live in an age of great knowledge and wonderful scientific discoveries. But, compared to God who knows all things we are ignorant. Sadly, our arrogance sometimes pushes us to attempt to elevate our ignorance over God’s perfect wisdom.
Worse yet, we often allow our conceit to judge God’s motives and to input, unholy, evil misguided reasoning to his servants. Such arrogance lies at the heart of claims like: that the lack of references to women was based in chauvinistic attitudes of God’s (or his servants) or a result of the male dominance in religion. Such arrogance also empowers cries for ordination of women, and the blending of roles.
True that Chauvinism, misogyny and arrogance among humans in this fallen telestial world, have led to great inequalities and suffering. However, to attribute those same characteristics to a Holy God, or His kingdom, to wrongfully impute human frailties and weaknesses on a perfect God, is pure arrogance and frankly dishonest. Besides that, it also defies logic which would demand for the fault finder to humbly acknowledge that given their biased and frail humanity, it is just possible that there are actually high, holy and moral reasons behind what our myopic views have judged to be sexist.