There's a masculine and feminine to almost everything, so why not a Goddess to a God?

Question

Christians and the like have been trained to believe that God is a man. That he made human's in his own image. So where did the idea come from for the female form? Women are not in his image and are percieved to be the weaker sex, but they are powerful enough to create life.
In theory, what if there is a Goddess? What if the lives of christians (and the like) have neglected and abandoned her for all these thousands of of years? Could this be a reason why so many people have claimed to have suffered in the name of religion? Because they praise and respect the father of all that is and not the mother?
There is a masculine and feminine to almost everything. Why not a Goddess?

Answer 1

There is if you look in a different belief. But don't ever expect them to understand. For one can not exist with out the other.
Blessed Be... ; )

Answer 2

I was wondering when someone would ask this question.
Since the Book that we call the bible was written during the Matriarchal society stage of Judaism then all things were named as male first . When it was a matriarchal society before that all names were feminine first.Yes that means that the Jewish people have or had a female name for the creative force. also it was two different female names. but they have been pretty much lost in time can still be found with searching.as I came across them some time ago .
Even if you use the bible as it is today God speaks of its self in the plural (let us, WE,etc.) so it knows duality.
to answer one of the other answers . Yes the pagans are mostly feminist in nature . but there are those that worship both a female goddess and a male god in their own time. but SPIRIT is still above them.

Answer 3

"Christians and the like have been trained to believe that God is a man."????? I'm not sure where you heard this one. God is often referred to in the masculine because the Bible was written in a male dominanted society. Most Christians don't really assign a human sex to God. True, we refere to God as Father, but that has a lot to do with the way God acts, not necessarily with gender.

When it says that God created us in His image, it's not really referring to the way we look.

Not having a gender pretty much negates the idea of a goddess in Christianity, not to mention the total lack of scripture on such a being for nearly 5,000 years. Sorry.

Answer 4

The earliest religions were with Goddesses. As givers of life, as forces of change, as moon cycle based physical beings women were valued as having power. We refer to any calamity as Mother Nature. We refer to ships as females. Often cars as females. As a vessel. Those things are founded in the belief that the female cannot be at the head or brain of anything, or it might upset the male ego. I don't want to sound sexist or feminist, hell my male friends agree with me on this. The world is male-centric and it wasn't always so.

Granted as women there are a lot more opportunities now than 500 or 100 or even 50 years ago. But we see the tide that threatens reversing those advances and we have to push back and make it known that those that fought for our freedoms didn't do so in vain.

*off my rant now* lol

ps I'm just an ordinary average girl

Answer 5

In the days that the bible was first mass produced they didn't use a non-gender form for anything that had a non-gender. I personally don't believe that you can attach any Gender to God/Goddess. Up until the 1950's the male gender was used to describe most things. It's not the religion that places the male gender above the female...it's people.

Answer 6

The English translation of the Aramaic may not be as gender specific as most assume.
I was taught that God is neither male nor female. In otherwords sex is not relevent to the being that is God. Think of it this way... instead of calling Him God, how about The Creator? We don't assign a sex to The Creator, that is an all encompassing title that works for most. I have often heard that we will one day meet our Maker...again, not gender specific.
I don't think we will ever be comfortable with God the Mother till we are comfortable with a true equality of the earthly sexes.

Answer 7

They have been taught that God is in spirit. The Bible says he is the Father...other than that, there is no further description. Since we are talking about 2 different planes of existance, why would one attempt to equate one with the other.. we, on the mortal plane must have male and female (although that has been alterred by cloning). But for some reason, that is not acceptable as they (clones)are unable to reproduce. Seems like a good plan, as it keeps man from trying to play God. Even animals who can interbreed, have foals that do not reproduce. Thus keeping the clarity of the species.

Answer 8

Here's where the bible tells us the idea came from for female form:

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." 19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 22 and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." 24

I believe Men are useless/pointless without Women and that as one of gods creations Women are sacred.

As for god, I don't believe a duality or male female applies to god. I believe in a trinity where god is concerned: The father, The son and The Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

At one time women were revered. They were the life givers and healers, but that all changed as the modern day religous groups grew in power and men would squash women because they were so frightened by their mystery and power. In our pagan past it was taken for granted that there was always Gods and Goddesses.
Maybe someday we will again be in a position of honor and reverence once more.

Answer 10

Of course there is a goddess. Even the holy Roman Empire deigned to allow Mary to be a 'goddess', although not one of the holy trinity. If God is all things to all people (and I truly believe He is) then He is also a She.

Answer 11

God is not a man in the sense of sexuality. God is Both sexes. Only ignorant Christians will say God is sexually a man. God is referred to as he because of sexism in ancient times that carried through. But God is both.