Days after the United Methodist Church voted down an amendment to its Book of Discipline that would have said God is not “male or female,” the denomination says there will be a revote as the text had an error.
The amendment that failed to pass on Monday was centered on gender equality, but a sentence “that should not have been included in the amendment was removed by a vote of 746–56” was “inadvertently included in the version that was distributed,” the denomination said in a statement.
That sentence reads as follows: “The United Methodist Church recognizes it is contrary to Scripture and to logic to say that God is male or female, as maleness and femaleness are characteristics of human bodies and cultures, not characteristics of the divine.”
The text, as approved by the General…
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