What makes God a He, as opposed to a She?

Answer 1

Even God cannot decide if it is a she or he. I think it is a she caaaaz I saw her vagina whistling

Answer 2

God is neither

we put a sex to God cause it makes it easier to try to figure things out. God is a being, and if you believe christian doctrine, God is three beings. The Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.
Of the three, Jesus was the only flesh and blood man.
The Holy Ghost is a spirit, but God is nothing and everything at once.

Figure that one out.

I choose not to think about it too much, it makes my head hurt.
That's where faith comes in.

Answer 3

All Religious language, including Gender language regarding God, is metaphorical.

Ancient Israelite religion assumed that YHWH was a divine King, the sovereign who freed them from oppression.

There is also lots of archaeological evidence that the ancient Israelites did engage in goddess worship as well--YHWH may have had a consort!

Also, look to the psalms, there are metaphors that compare God to a mother bird.

And there are many scholars who believe that "lady wisdom" in proverbs is a female image of God.

Answer 4

Well the bible was written way, way back in the day when women were still generally seen as a little below man and so the creators of the bible would have thought that people would be more likely to follow if god was referred to as male instead of female.

Answer 5

There are some referances in the Old Testiment that describe God's relationship with the Hebrews as a father's relationship with his children (with the nation of Israel often begin protraied as the ungrateful youngest child in a large family who leaves the safty of his father's home for greater things only to return broken and humble. Read Proverbs and Pslams, alot of that imagery there).

Also, Jesus refers to God as "father" and since humanity has a very clearly defined set of terms describing who birthed the child and who aided in its creation, we are to assume "God" is male as he was the passive party in Jesus' creation.

Also, there are some very vague and very ancient legends (some found in Persia and others in Egypt) that speak of a group of nomads in the lands of modern day Israel who worshiped, above all other gods in their pantheon, their sky deity. Most ancient pantheons had male sky gods, so it is safe to assume this "sky god" was male. He is also said to have fathered, as in did not carry or birth them, a few minor gods in other pantheones.

To be fair, though, there is very little evidence to say this nomadic tribe was the Tribe of Abraham and the sky god to be God, but there are those who think the similarities are too good to be just coinecidence.

~~ Abaddon

Answer 6

People think of men as being strong and in charge and so they put the male gender on their god. Freudthought that the Christian god was a replacement for the father figure.

Answer 7

God is neither. Islam says that God is neither male nor female. Same goes for that whole "blame the woman" thing. Adam doesn't blame Eve, he says "We". We were wrong. We apologize. We didn't listen to you. Nobody is given more pains than the other and all people are not condemned to hell because of what one woman did.

Answer 8

God is neither He or She, but the ancient Hebrews (the ancestors of today's Jews) were the first to believe in a monotheist God and they lived in a patriarchial society, so they called God "He" and it stuck.

Answer 9

Male supremacy. In the Middle East, women were considered to be really low down on the ladder. Anything greater than humanity could not be feminine.

Answer 10

The patriarchal social milieu of ancient Hebrew culture.

Answer 11

God said so. I suppose that God can be anything that he wants to be.