Reading assaignment - Essay Example

Reading assignment Q1) because they believed that Lee and Jesus were co-saviours. Therefore, since Lee come after Jesus Christ, they believed in him (Setia 267). They saw Jesus not as Christ but as a principle “the unity of male and female”They believed Jesus had come the second time as Anne Lee. Q2) they realised that they so many secular activities going on, on earth therefore the world was imperfect and therefore they could not be controlled by the same laws that govern the rest of the people (Setia 270)Q3) The belief of God as a gentle woman and the belief of Anne Lee made them look at women differently.

Therefore, because in the beginning it is the woman who lured the man into sin, they therefore need a woman saviour (Setia 269).Q4) The similarity between shaker community and the Oneida community is that they both believed in bringing the millennium kingdom. However, they had different methods of doing it. The shakers felt that it was necessary to eliminate sexual intercourse because God had eliminated in the Garden of Eden. While the Oneida community believed that it was necessary to live as if they were already in the millennium kingdom.

Therefore, they practised complex marriage where all the men and women were married to each other.Q5) Gen. 1-3 says that "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image; male and female created He them; and called their name Adam."From this It is clear that two people were present at that time, therefore, there must be two Gods. One who is the father then the other is a female.Q6) The second Adam was Jesus Christ. b) Shakers doctrinei) Gods knowledge has been progressive from age to age.

According to them Gods knowledge have undergone four cycles.ii) As father God is the fountain of all knowledge and power. iii) These doctrines are related to Gen. 1-3 because in this verse God has been described as the creator. BibliographySETIA, “Susan M. When Christ is a Woman: Theology and Practise in The Shaker Tradition.”