What possible justification is there for god being male other than blatant sexism?

Question

God is a Transexual. No other reasonable answer is possible. Doesn't making God a man imply male superiority? And if this is true it explains the tremendous excess of testosterone fuelled violence that threatens to destroy civilization

Answer 1

yup, you'd probably be happier as a wiccan.

Answer 2

I think it's all how the Word was translated. In most languages the default gender for a gender neutral word is male (say what you will but its the truth(Also why co-ed fraternities are always fraternities and never sororities)). Though English doesn't have masculine and feminine words, the translators probably didn't want to refer to God as "it" so the had to pick either he or she. They most likely made this decision on the basis the word in the previous translation was masculine (again its a language thing and not a gender thing).

In the end I bet the original authors of the Bible didn't have sexism on their minds at all when they referred to God as male. They were probably concentrating too hard on him being all powerful and all loving and all that. I think arguments like this make God to be so puny when His glory is infinite.

Answer 3

Yeah! Let's all burn our bras and refuse to shave! That'll show those evil men!

Here's the short of it: until very recently in history, women were an historical non-entity. Men wrote history, theology, philosophy, and so on. The masculine touch is on every facet of these things and more but that should not facilitate a knee-jerk rejection of these things. By doing that, we throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I sincerely hope you can mature past your militant feminism and become a well-informed, well-reasoned individual. You're on the right path, but you sound like you're about to make a very dangerous turn. Good luck with all that.

And to address your issue: it is a misnomer to ascribe any gender at all to God. To say that God is either male, female, or both, is to ascribe a certain amount of finitude to an infinite being. Doing that, simply, is wrong and misleading.

Answer 4

Actually, I don't picture God as sexual at all. In identifying with his human creation, it is a matter of convenience. I only know to attribute maleness to Him because when He directed the Bible writers to write the Bible, He used the masculine singular for himself at everyplace we translate Lord, although He also used the masculine plural for the places saying God (in the Old Testament). Jesus was rather obviously male. Contrary to the convenient nicety, most people were naked when they were crucified, that and it would have been rather definite when he was circumcised. Again, I only attribute maleness to God, because the wording of the book uses male noun forms. Even when it speaks of him as a rock or a star the language uses a male noun form. Why should I pick any other?

As for testosterone threatening to destroy civilization, there seems to be no end to the contentious influences of estrogen as well. Personally, I don't think of yin and yang as a constant cycle of good and bad but it seems to better symbolize the perpetual male/female struggle--male heads always chasing female tails and female heads always wanting to kick some male tails.

Humanity was made "male and female" (Matthew 19:4 or Mark 10:6). From the Christian perspective we have this: "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus" and "here is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galations 3:26, 28). Jesus was asked about a woman in Matthew 22:23-30, where he concluded on the issue by saying, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven" (vs. 29-30) which indicates in our final and eternal condition our gender is irrelevant.

Answer 5

Nope, no sexism...God is Spirit and without sex. He is referred too...as He, Him and His.

Just because you can't wrap your mind around something, doesn't make it "not so." Open your mind, read the Bible...you might be amazed as to what you will find.

In Genesis, male superiority isn't implied. Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him." 19 So the LORD God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird. He brought them to Adam[a] to see what he would call them, and Adam chose a name for each one. 20 He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still there was no companion suitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs[b] and closed up the place from which he had taken it. 22Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.

23 "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,' because she was taken out of a man." 24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Woman was taken out of man...which means man was both male and female before God removed woman from the other-side (rib-in Hebrew). You will have to point out where in the Scriptures (specifically) it states that there is male superiority.

Perhaps it's you twisting the Word of God? ((Pay close attention to verse 29)) Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"and again, "The Lord will judge his people."[e] 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

I hope you will find the Grace of the Living God and His Son Jesus!

Answer 6

In proper English, when one is referring to a singular individual or entity (like God) and the gender is unknown, "he" is the default term used to refer to that individual. It has nothing to do with male superiority.

The real reasonable answer is that God is androgynous; "he" has no gender. He is not, by any stretch of the imagination, transsexual.

The violence that threatens to destroy civilization is not solely "testosterone fueled". In my opinion, greed, anger, jealousy, hatred, and the myriad of other negative human emotions that are actually responsible for this violence, also know no gender.

Answer 7

To the best of my knowledge. It was never recorded that God said he was a male. Just as it was never recorded that God was white or black. In the book of Genesis, in response to Mose's question (i.e. Who are you?), God simply said "I am who I am." I think you have issues with men but God is not a man. Also, as a medical doctor, I should point out that testosterone is found in women as well as in men and estrogen is found in men as well as in women. Testosterone does not predispose people to violent behavior. Nature versus nuture. Don't forget about the nuture portion.

Answer 8

You may be right. I do agree that the world would be a better place if violence wasn't religon motivated but I did come accross this the other day and it might be part of a root cause to your question:
the first epistle to Timothy: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."

Answer 9

Judaism, which invented the biblical god, teaches that Yahweh is neither male nor female, and is a pure spirit without gender. Hebrew has no neuter case, so male pronouns / words were used, he instead of she, father instead of mother, etc., but Jews recognize "God" as having no gender.

Christians modified this to portray "God" as male.

Answer 10

Jesus said to pray to the Father

Jesus was a man, I am sure we can all agree on that

The Holy Spirit impregnated the Virgin Mary, and acording to all my biology courses, a woman can NOT impregnate anything.

So there you go. God is Male.

Of course God is neither male nor female, but He is refered to as male so we humans would be able to understand and refer to Him in prayer.

Answer 11

God does pretty damned sloppy work (eg, naked mole rats...what's up with those things?) and absolutely refuses to lift a finger on Sunday. And, sure God is good at giving directions (The 10 Commandments), but have you ever heard of God ever stopping and ASKING for directions?

Now does that sound like a woman?