Why do we refer to God as he and not as a her?

Question

Why is it we accept God was a he and not a she, with todays world of equality is that right?

Answer 1

Because we live in a patriarchal society.

Answer 2

That's because Christianity is still based on the Patriarchal system. After all, females can't be priests. Only nuns. Females have no superior role except as giving birth and being whores (Mary Mother of God and Mary Madgelene). It's a shame that they're so closed-minded, isn't it?

Wiccans believe that there is a God and a Goddess (Lord and Lady), and that there was FIRST the All -- a neutral-gender entity. So much more equal, don'cha say?

Oh well. Have a good day.

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 3

To refer to God with the commonly accepted male gender that we do, reflects the evolution of thinking of society as we know it. To try and make an issue of it shows immaturity and resistance to the acceptable "M.O." of God. You would better serve the understanding of the nature of God by referring to God as the I am, or Omni, or Almighty and such. To push feminizing God for equal billing of women's rights or equality is petty, selfish, and destructive to the cause of God in general. I don't say that as a put down, just to wake you to get real.

Answer 4

God most likely doesn't give a second thought if you refert to "it" as, "he", "she," "it" "God" "Allah" "Goddess" "Kami" ect. These are human hangups.

"Our Father who art in heaven" Father is symbolic of the one who proctects the family and provides for the family. God protects us, God Provides for us, God treats "his" children as a good father would. At that time, thats what the father did-he worked, protected and cared for the well being of the family. The mother produced teh children, took care of the children, fed the family with the food the husband brought it. It does not mean God has a penis.

Heres a fact most people don't know: Early Judaism talked about both a Man and a Woman being created at the same time-her name was lilith. Interesting story, she didn't want to be subserviant to him, so she left. Why don't we know this story in the Genisis book? Because they didn't want to give women any ideas.

What was the image that God made man in? I think it is Gods spirit-the soul that allows us to recoginize God and the part that makes us different from other animals.

but we will never know (until the hubble spots a white, bearded guy in a pink robe floating in space-but i doubt that, so i stick with my belief that the image of God is not physical)

Answer 5

Because God is neither male or female. He is a Spirit Person. He refers to himself in the masculine gender so that we can understand Him better. The Bible speaks of God with eyes, feet,hands, etc, which a Spirit person doesn't have. If God tried to explain what a spirit person look like, we humans couldn't understand it. Since God made man first aand put him as the head of the house, He refers to himself in the masculine gender.
The Bible also refers to Satan as a dragon and Jesus as a lamb these are just metaphors not to be taken literally. People today
refer to their autos, boats etc in the masculine or feminine gender
which isn't to be taken literally.

Answer 6

And what about God? Is God exclusively male? The answer is obvious. God is spirit; God has no physical body. God is omnipresent, meaning that there is no place, no time, and no concept from which God is absent. God is simultaneously on the other side of the Universe, 30 billion light-years away, and God is inside all the atoms of your body. God is inside the protons and electrons, the quarks, the strings of which you are composed. God is inside neutrinos. God suffuses the Universe even more thoroughly than water suffuses a goldfish bowl.Because God has no physical body, God has no penis and no uterus. You may refer to God as male (Lord, how can you stop?), but to refer to God as female is exactly as valid.

(If he she it exists at all )

Answer 7

Before the Bible was rewritten over and over again. It was a woman. The priest or prophets didn't like this idea anymore so they gave God a sex change. I was always wondering how can they do that, just up and scratch it out and put down God is a male.

Answer 8

God created man in his image. He is also known as the Father. God did no make woman unil he saw Adam was lonely so he took one of Adam's ribs and created woman.

"For I am the Lord I do not change". Malachi 3:6

So if God does not change why would you want to try to change Him to her.

God is the Head and not the tail. On Earth he told man to be the head. The man is the head of his household. I'm not saying that the woman is the tail but she's not the head either.

Answer 9

It's not a question of equality, but one of faith. If you're a Christian, then you believe that God is a masculine deity. If you're a radical feminist or a pagan, then you believe in God as a feminine deity (or refer to Her as Goddess). We live in an interfaith culture where ideally it's up to the individual to decide what works best for him/her.

Answer 10

Hey guy! you got it ! God is not a man! She is a Female entity! She is the Great Mother who created evrything! I put away the bible long ago! one day all the women and Girls who have lived on Earth, will reform into the one image of the Great Mother! in short, all the Girls are little Goddesses.

Answer 11

back when god was invented, males were superior to females. so the inventors naturally made a man as the god. the Greeks and Romans were more equal. some of their most important gods were female (Demeter, goddess of earth/farming. Hestia, goddess of home. Athena, goddess of wisdom, etc)