Why do people genderize god?

Answer 1

I dont ..cause if he is God he has no gender. He CREATED gender.

Answer 2

I believe God is labeled "He" because of language conventions. Prior to the last ten years people did not much use the "impersonal you" or call an unknown person "they" - the proper word for a person of unknown or undisclosed gender has been "he" at least in the English language which got the convention from its parent languages. If a woman was pregnant the baby of unknown gender would properly be referred to as "he."

Interpreting the "He" in the Bible to mean God is male requires you to discard Genesis. God made Adam in His image and then split Adam into Adam and Eve - Adam was originally both male and female if this is to be believed. That is why the union of man and woman is considered holy because it rejoins two to form one again.

At least that's what I got from Genesis.

Biologically speaking we all start out female - everyone is female at some point in the womb then goes one direction or the other in development. Perhaps "they" really meant to say "she" regarding Adam, LOL.

Answer 3

Because God genderizes people.

Answer 4

The idea of God as having a gender depends entirely on whether the society is matriarchical or patriachical... most countries prefer men for leaders and so will call God HE. In countries or societies where women are considered more highly the female godess is more common. If i have to be honest I do not believe in enderization because if god is supernatural, omnipresent and omnipotent he definitely goes beyond the limited cage of vocabulary and sexual identity

Answer 5

No one has seen God. No one has heard God speak.Or , for that matter, no one knows God directly.

It is like the legendray 5 blind people describing an elephant by the way they touched and felt.

But many have felt God. Many lives have been touched by Godly acts. So it is upto those people to see God the way they want to ... male female, form , formless.By doing so they feel closer ro the creator, I suppose.

Answer 6

Thank the Jews of old for that. Gods and goddesses were plentiful and probably evenly divided before monotheism. The Jews pushed for "one god" (theirs, of course). It was due to the fact that men had control over women, and in order to keep control, they decided that the one god was male.

This kept women from gaining too much power. I wonder how much of this had to do with Jezebel who was a powerful queen and believed in a religion that allowed females to express their sexuality. The Jews obvioiulsy were threatened by her on all levels. They called her a whore and sent her to a violent death. Doing this clearly kept less powerful women quiet (by example) and secured more strongly male dominance.

Answer 7

God has revealed himself as masculine but that does not mean that God is ontologically gendered. Moreover, we think of being in terms of gender (he, she, it). All we have to go on is God's revelation and our sensible experience.

Answer 8

God can be a woman because woman give life and God is a creator and gives life like a woman. But then in the bible it says God is a he., because he is the father of Jesus

Answer 9

It is much easier to associate intelligent qualities with a He of She than it is with an It. Unfortunately, God is an It.

Answer 10

The judeo/islamic/christian God is derived from patriarchal societies. If you're going to try to convey that something is powerful, you associate it with what most people consider to be power.