As PPs have suggested, it partly depends on who you think Jesus is. The question falls in with similar questions, like "What if Jesus had been born in the twentieth century?" or "What if Jesus had been born in India to a Hindu family?" If Jesus was the Messiah and God incarnate, the questions make no sense. He could only have been born to a Hebrew mother. Not only that, but to a woman of the House of David. He could not have been born at any time except when he was, because circumstances prophesied in Scripture had come together at that particular point in time. And he could only have been a son, not a daughter.
If he was
not the Messiah, he could very well have been born a girl (or at another time and place), but then he would have been just some woman...and the question becomes meaningless.
The author suggests some other possibilities in this hypothetical situation, and taking the view that Jesus was a prophet and teacher only. First, that Jesus had to be male because a woman speaking of theological matters would be rejected. I am not so sure. The Jewish people had female as well as male prophets. Why would they reject this woman any more than Naomi, Ruth, Esther, Deborah, or Miriam?
I think she is also trying to fit certain concepts into modern forms of thinking. For example, when she talks about the religious patriarchy which has shut women out, she is referring to the ancient Hebrew faith and practice for which Jesus had the greatest reverence. When he made corrections, it was to things which did not follow or revere religious tradition
enough. He was meant to be the fulfillment of prophey, not its revolutionary. The priesthood, for example, was not open to women or to men outside the correct tribe. This practice clashes with the modern concept of fairness and justice, but it is indispensable to the faith Jesus represented. Anyone, male or female, who rejected or tried to overturn Hebrew tradition was not the promised Messiah.
I wonder about her comments on the potential effects of a female Messiah. She says,
Quote:
| If the person we commit our lives to follow and who sacrificed herself on our behalf was a woman, I can’t help but think that would have significantly impacted how we have perceived and treated women for the last 2,000 years. |
The person Christians now follow was a man, yet Christians have been cruel and unjust to countless men over the years. If their Messiah had been a woman, what would keep them from treating women just as badly? Does she really think women and other vulnerable people are oppressed simply because we lack a good role model?
Smokering
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to Ellen G. White too! 
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