Why is it so difficult?

Question

Why is it so difficult to accept that there is duality in the universe? I'm all about God....the masculine energy of the universe. But why is the feminine denied? When did the feminine start to be viewed as weak, needing protection and inferior to the masculine? Most religions say you need male AND female, so why is she not honored? I know catholics honor Mary, but she is just an intercessor....she doesn't stand on her own as an equal to masculine divne.

Answer 1

Empirical data about the all-powerful creator of the universe is hard to obtain. He doesnt submit to microscopes, and catheters. :)

As a bible-believing Christian, and also a mind-using thinker, I have to say a few things about your premise.

You are communicating using language. That means that you have an idea in you, and you want to wrap it up in agreed upon sounds associated with ideas, (or in the case of text, agreed upon geometric shapes) then pass those shapes to another human being (like me) and have me unwrap those sounds, and be able to construct an idea inside of myself that is built to be like the idea inside of yourself. You are using words. Words have meaning. You know that, but I am reminding you because in this context your usage of the word "energy" has no specified meaning. It just doesnt make physical sense in the language. What does it really mean?

Im very into science, and am aware of all known forms of energy. Your energy can not be one of those.

Energy does not have gender. Sexual gender is classically associated with reproduction, and the processes of biological life. There are 5 laws that have never, ever, in the history of all known science, in every field of science, been broken. One of them is balance of energy. Energy does not reproduce so a sexual gender association is currently categorically meaningless.

There are roles associated with gender, and whether they are individual or social, in all known species they allow specialization, increased productivity and typically a greater "fitness" in terms of evolution. In that context energy still does not have gender.

As a fundamentalist Christian who actually studies the bible in its original languages I can authoritatively assert the following:
The image of God (whatever that means) is equally contained in both Male and Female. God is called male not because of a Penis, or sexual reproduction. The God of the bible does not sexually reproduce.

God is more likely referred to as male because of his dominant role when interacting with man being consistent with male roles within the ancient Jewish culture, and as a cultural honorific within the ancient Jewish culture.

Wanting to pray to a feminine divine is just as gender focussed, sexist, and meaningless as wanting to pray to a God who has a penis just because he has a penis. The heart motive is the same, and both are meaningless representations of a divine that encapsulates the superficiality of both masculine and femine.

Think about it, you are making a truth table of gender for God. Either God has a penis, a vagina, both, or neither.
A true God that had one or the other would require an opposite, and be incomplete not fully understanding, or able to speak to, or potent in the way of the opposite. Thats a weak God.
A true God that had both would be dysfunctional, a parody of a biological creation. Everything that has a beginning, has an end. In the case of a sexually produced "god", the universe is capable of existing without their existance. They are not the self-existant one, a fundamental idea in the definition of God. Those "gods" are a feature of creation, and not a true creator. Anything born or created can not be a true God. The creation is less than the creator.
It makes sense therefore that a true God understands both perfectly, can speak to both perfectly, is greater than all of the capabilities of both of the created genders.

Wow. Thats long.

Key ideas:
Its just as sexist to put a vagina on God as it is to put a penis on God. Both are based on physical biological reproduction, which a true-self existant God by definition can not have. Both limit the power and understanding of the Creator, making the creator smaller than the creation, and dependent on another for completeness.

A more biblically accurate idea is that God has neither penis, nor vagina,"image of God" is based on neither penis nor vagina, and God is fully understanding, fully relevant to, and greater than either gender.

Answer 2

It's a control issue. I'm by no means a Bible scholar but doesn't it say in there somewhere the women will honor or submit to the man?? The universe is about duality for sure. Male & Female, Lord & Lady, Mars & Venus. Most early religions (before Christianity) had both masculine & feminine dieties. I think it's really still a "male dominated" society here in America. Why have we yet to have any women Presidents???

Answer 3

Matthew 22
"30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. "

It's not that feminine or masculine is promoted or denied by the faith. The masculine was used because of the social norm at the time of the transcriptions.

Answer 4

Some people believe that the woman is "inferior" because Eve committed the first sin, so they say sin entered the world through her (they forget that Adam ate the forbidden fruit too). Jesus held women in high esteem, and the members of the Church are described as His "bride," so contrary to feminist teaching, women are not subjugated and held to be little more than property. While it is true that men are responsible for almost all of our societal and technological advances throughout history (as well as almost all the wars), a lot of that can be attributed to how society views men and women...

Answer 5

God is only "male" because the people who wrote the Bible were mostly male...and because when Christianity was a struggling religion...they were competeing against paganism which in fact, was a religion of duality...because they believed that Jesus was the Son of God they turned agaist the female aspect of deities and made anything female lower then male in order to convert the men of those times first, who in turn forced there wives to convert because women have never been equal to men in this world...we still arent...

Answer 6

Nature. Males protect, Females Nurture. If females were more powerful, I'm sure they'd be the protector and the male would be the nurturer. But in all of animal life, you find that behaviours vary. Some have very cold protector type males, say perphaps with lions etc. and others have very nurturing males, say with penguins. Females in nature were designed to be passive to males. They make more eye contact at birth than males do. Which is a sign of supplication. It's a hard pill to swallow in a world who wishes to embrace that of independant women, when in truth it's easy to say that a truly independant woman on her own wouldn't be very happy. She'd be buying her own food, her own drinks. Spending terms with her other independant friends. Always looking for a mate. And when she did hook up with a male, it'd be a one night stand like other assertive males do if she was truly as independant and assertive as a male . If everyone had male qualities the world wouldn't be a very good place to be. Much colder and a lot less caring. Full of Machismo antics and Ego trips. Take a look at a female prison and you'll see tons of independant women. I'm not sure i'd like to live in a world where an assertive large woman who knew how to handle herself would walk up to me and ask me out, and stalk me if I didn't go out with her. There'd be a lot more fights, a lot more violence. It's the nature of the beast. But their always are exceptions. I say you can be whoever you want to be as a person but it's the person themselves who has to fight their own nature everynight. Females being more emotional, it might take more of an impact. Personally I'd be grateful for my benefits of getting taken care of. Taking care of yourself is very overrated. If you're looking out for you and no one else is, it's a very different world. When you look at it from a universal viewpoint, males need females to balance themselves out, and vice versa with females to men.

Answer 7

God came to earth in a man's human form, but in heavenly form I think he's both. He doesn't have a gender. He said we (meanign both sexes) were made in his image. So I'm guessing he "split himslef in half" I am not maleshovinist and not feminist (well duh I ain't maleshovinist) I believe God created men to lead women, but that not letting woman taking stands and treating them like dogs was not what he intended. I ain't God so I don't know, but making male and females a bit more equal sounds more like something God would want. I mean, God doesn't favor a sex!

Answer 8

We are under the man in a sence, but we still play just as an important role as man.

Answer 9

What does sex have to do with the supernatural? Isn't it just a reproductive thing? Do gods reproduce sexually as well?

Answer 10

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!

2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!

3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!

4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!

6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!

7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!

8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!


9. Satan has been the best friend I have ever had, as He has kept my happy all these years!