I'm curious.
2006-10-01 09:51:05 · 26 answers · asked by Alexis 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is male. 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.
2006-10-01 10:42:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Neither God nor angels have a gender. Jesus became a male, yet that pronounces not something approximately the different areas of the Trinity. the only reason that angels or demons and the different contributors of the Trinity are reported as male is by using the fact God created guy earlier woman. men have been the 1st gender to be created and function the main duty for looking after concerns on earth.
2016-10-18 07:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. A spirtual-divine-creator.
Omnipotent
Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
Yet God is all things- to humans-appear as male or female or angels or whale or cloud or pillar of fire or lightning or whatever or however Gods chooses to display spiritual form.
Old Hebrew word is SHEKINAH GLORY_the presense of GOD>
Bible refers to masculine form- but Bible is clear in the book of Mark that NO GENDER EXIST IN HEAVEN! That applies to God-Angels and people who get to heaven-neither male nor female.
2006-10-01 09:59:01 · answer #3 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard God is an IT, but I've always felt Higher Power to be masc/fem qualities and as an Intelligence, not bound to male or female designations as humans are.
2006-10-01 09:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a male God and a female Goddess.
2006-10-01 10:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's my opinion: God does not have a gender for these reasons:
a) He created everything. If He were to have a gender, that would be something He didn't create, and that would mean He didn't create everything.
b) Genders are needed for reproduction. Reproduction is needed to ensure the survival of a species. God neither needs to reproduce nor ensure His survival, as He is immortal.
2006-10-01 09:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by Derek 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
**Do you think God is a male, female, or neither?***
God, she is definitely a Female !
The Bible Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.
2006-10-01 11:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has no gender. The fundamental purpose of gender is reproduction. Why would God need that? Because God is without gender, all legitimate human love is a direct reflection of God's love. This includes the love of a mother for her daughter, or the love between two sisters. This love is no less like God's love than the love of a human father for his son. Though God is without gender, He has still chosen to present Himself to us as a "Father" image, which is why we refer to God as "He".
2006-10-01 09:57:07 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is creator of Gender (male and female). we can not make comparisons as he has no match in universe.
2006-10-01 09:55:15 · answer #9 · answered by Purple Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither
2006-10-01 09:53:46 · answer #10 · answered by rag1875 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋