Why isn't it The Father, The Mother, The Son, and the Holy Spirit?

Question

Why can't Christians pray to women? Christians think that it's sacriligeous to pray to the Virgin Mary for instance. Isn't that denying femininity in Christian religion?

Answer 1

God the Father is also considered the Mother, as one of his names mentioned in the Bible was El-Shaddai which if I remember correctly means The Many Breasted One. Interpretted to be The Lord who nurtures ( like a Loving Mother )

- Culture of that time was main Patriachal, not surprising that the Divine is also seen more as a Patriach than a Matriach. Most Ancient Cultures that had Female rulers had a God Mother as part of the Divinity Patheons too.

Answer 2

Christianity is a very masculine religion. The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit is the trinity they believe in. Many people see Mary as a Goddess and do pray to her as the Mother, the Maiden and the Crone.

Answer 3

Why must this be asked? And you don't pray to the son, the son told you how to pray, and he does not mention himself at all. You don't pray to the holy spirit either.

I think this has more to do with a way to denigrate religion (not that this is what you are doing) than anything else, a problem created to seperate the two things that God joined, a man and a woman.

Answer 4

No. Mary is to be recognized as the mother of Christ, but praying to her is not biblically sound and serves no purpose since she has no power to answer prayers, just as none of the other "saints". We are to go to Jesus for everything. "I am the way the truth and th life no man gets to the Father but by Me." Jesus. As far as denying femininity, what many fail to realize, is that God the Father, although always referred to as "him", is much more than a man. In Genesis he said, "Let us create man in our own image." and once that man was created he took from him the femininity that was already in him (having been created in the image of the Father) and developed the woman from that which was already there. Femininity is not widely celebrated in the mainstream Christian community, not because it is not biblically sound but because patriarchy has infiltrated the Church just as it has every other facet of life.

Answer 5

That's not true about not praying to women, maybe that's all we see here in America, but in Latin America, and many European countries such as Spain, and Italy. You find many forms of Christianity that hold Mary as divine and pray to her. The reason behind her not being included is she is not of the one. She is human not divine. By the way your more than welcome to make her your most sacred of deities, even if she isn't. Nobody can tell you how believe.

Answer 6

It's simple:
The entire Christian religion was created by sexist men.
It says in the Bible that women are lower than men and women need to be below men, so it's settled there.
Men in modern days use Paul's writings as an excuse for liberating themselves.
Paul was a sexist, and since the Bible hit it off and became...well, the Bible, men have used the excuse that it says in the Bible for women to be under men.

Answer 7

The female gender is not included in the Presidency of Heaven because in reality it is the male's role to preside.

In some ways, you might say our Heavenly Mother has 'better' things to do.

As is meant to be here, in the Heavens, the Father might be "the Head", but equally our Eternal Mother is "the Heart of the Heavens".
She has another role to play with the spirit children - trillions of them - she has given spirit birth to as Her spirit children.

We are also their spirit children here, but born to earthly parents. We who are here at present have simply come after many but before others, whose turn it will soon be some day. We are all here, upon our own agreement to come, to learn to become more like our Heavenly parents and undergo the necessary experience and 'training' here to learn to follow them.
The Men [ie. the Gods] built the earth and preside over it and its affairs - which are temporary at this point, until we all unite with BOTH of our eternal parents to aid them in their great work, having received our own training and parental experience here.

One major reason for this order of things is because our Father knows this earth experience to be infinitely brief when measured up against eternity, but He, nevertheless, desires to protect His Wife - our mother - from all of the scorn, disgust, filth, murder and blasphemy of this world.

In the real understanding and order of things, the femininity that helps shape the Heavens, also shapes its Beauty and which offers presence in all things is what makes the Heavens every bit worthwhile.

As another pointed out, all such feminist talk is the adversary's attempt to defile marriage and family and to separate men and women, when God created them to be joined together as "one flesh" ... that they might become one.
It is the 2 separate roles which allow men and women to work together in harmony for the same end.

Overall, We don't know much of these eternal things of God and our Mother here, but we will learn them all soon enough - in the Hereafter.
They are not all necessary for our salvation here.
And many such things are too purely SACRED for this world to know about.

Answer 8

God is spirit: He/She/It has no gender.

God the father refers to God the creator (YHWH "I am that I am"), God the son refers to Jesus (son of God), and God the Holy Spirit (refers to Pentecost). This is the Holy Trinity that is accepted by main stream Christianity.

The bible is the word of God as spoken through the prophets. It is written in Hebrew and later in Greek. God created male and female, and you will see both masculine and feminine usage.

Answer 9

The reason why we do not hail Mary as the Catholics do is that Mary is, was, and will not be a God. God the Father is God. Jesus Christ was God in man form. There is only one God and we serve only one God. Mary was simple a vessel that God used to bring forth His Son. She is blessed because she was chosen to bring forth our Savior. How blessed is that?! However we should not worship her because she is not God.

Answer 10

Simply because it a Male dominated Religion at present.