Do you think of God as masculine or feminine?

Answer 1

In all religions God is considered to be male (masculine). "Ram", Krishan, Jesus, Prophet Mohd. All were male.

Answer 2

God is spirit, not flesh. God cannot be defined as male or female but in the Hindu religion, God possesses masculine and feminine qualities. The masculine energy of God is Shiva or the consciousness of the universe, whereas Shakti is the feminine aspect of God which represents energy and creative power. If we have a biological mother and father, why can't the divine power who created us be both mother and father to us?

Answer 3

Hello!! :o) The question wasn't, "Do you think of God as a MALE or FEMALE?" It was, "Do you think of God as masculine or feminine?" There's a difference. Males can be feminine and females can be masculine. That said.... I think of God as being BOTH masculine and feminine. Have a great day!! Craig!! :o)

Answer 4

Before you can even try and figure out if "God" is masculine or feminine, you have to define what "God" is and which god you are referring to.

Before we can even start to define what "God" is, we must first remember to always respect other people's religions. There are many religions that have more than one god in their religion. In Christianity there is only one god. Same goes for Islam and Judaism. In Hinduism, there are many gods. Older Greek and Roman religions had many gods as well. Some religions like Buddhism, don't even really have gods (though this is debatable).

So, when one asks, is "God" masucline or feminine (or is "God" a man or a woman), the question in itself must be defined before asking it. It is far too general of a question to ask. Though most people in the United States will understand the question as it is, if you ask the same question in India, you will get far different answers. Ask the question in Tibet and you will get a different answer.

To date, there have been millions of different types of gods created by man. The Aztecs, Mayans, and Egyptians had their own sets of gods thousands of years ago. They didn't believe in only one god, as most Christians today do.

The exercise here is to actually see that if there are so many gods, how do we know which ones are the real ones? How do we know if even one of them is real? To have faith and claim that the god of your religion is the only "real" god shows disrespect to believers of all the other gods. What makes you any more right than them? So the question of a gods masculinity becomes moot. First we must ask whether the god even exists and know that it exists before we can come to any type of conclusion.

Answer 5

I have not seen God - Hence I cannot say for sure

Howeve I have felt the presence of God many times!

He is very masculine in his strength and he is very feminine in his love!

Answer 6

God is neither masculine nor feminine as regards sex, because sex is something he created in order to procreate the species.

However, because God created male and female, he has the attributes of mind of both men and women.

Answer 7

As said in the Bible-God is the WORD and THE word is GOD. GOD is the power behind the WORD-the power is neither masculine nor feminine.

Answer 8

God, definitely masculine.

Answer 9

In answering the question, "Is God male or female," it is important to note that God did not appear in physical form anywhere in the Bible. 1 John 4:12 say, "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." In Exodus 33:20 God says, "You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."

God is Spirit and He does not have the physical reproductive parts of a man or a woman. John 4:24 says, "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John is using the masculine term "Him" in this passage, and again he uses masculine terms when he reports the words of John 8:16: "But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me."

God is a concept that we understand as being a Spirit and as such is an entity completely devoid of form and shape. Therefore, we must have spiritual eyes to "see" God, yet we as human beings have difficulty attempting to fit an infinite concept into our finite minds. So the term "Him" is frequently used when speaking about or referring to God.

Genesis 1:26 reads: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'" The term "man" is used to refer to the whole of humankind - both men and women. Men and women are only patterned after the image of God-not identical replicas. This fact does not require God to have a body like a man or a woman. Being made in the image of God has nothing to do with physical characteristics.

The Bible contains around 170 instances where God is referred to as the Father. Fathers are traditionally the protectors of the family, and historically the bread-winners. God is proclaiming Himself as our protector and supplier.

As we learned earlier, God is not a man. He is a Spirit. However, it is clear in the Bible that God chose masculine pronouns and responsibilities to reveal Himself to us. By using the male titles, God made it easier for us to understand Him.

Answer 10

Both. Traditionally it's He we call him in Judaism religions, as I was raised in one of these, called Prespitarian Christianity. But He has both traits of feminine and masculine I think.

Answer 11

The answer to the question about why God is referred to with masculine terms in the Bible really has only one answer: This is the way God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. God is never described with sexual characteristics in the Scriptures, but He does consistently describe Himself in the masculine gender. While He contains all the qualities of both male and female genders, He has chosen to present Himself with an emphasis on masculine qualities of fatherhood, protection, direction, strength, etc. Metaphors used to describe Him in the Bible include: King, Father, Judge, Husband, Master, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There are those who would like to blur this emphasis in some of the newer Bible translations, but it is very dangerous to tamper with the way God has chosen to reveal Himself. He most certainly does not intend to minimize women, since men and women are revealed as made in His image and of equal value to Him. But it remains that He is Father, not Mother, and even in the Incarnation chose to come to us as a man, Jesus Christ. One famous Christian scholar, C. S. Lewis, has suggested that gender is far deeper than our human distinctions reveal. He suggests that God is so masculine that we all are feminine in relation to Him. If this is true, it might explain why the church is referred to as the bride of Christ, though it is composed of both men and women.