Why has God a son and no daughter, according to Christians teaching ?

Question

I believe he is unique not a human being no necessity to be a father or son .

Answer 1

to believe that god has a son is total non-sence... god never had son..never he birth...he is one and alone.

Answer 2

According to the Christian faith, the reason that God has a son is because of the need to redeem mankind. When God created the first couple (Adam and Eve), Adam rebelled against God. (Eve was tricked). Because of that Adam's nature was changed so that he passed spiritual death to each of his descendant. Think of it as been like a "birth defect" passed by the father to each of his children. The technical name for this is "original sin".

So to "end" the birth defect, God had to send another male into the world, born without that defect, so that he could change the spiritual "gene pool". That male was Jesus Christ. He was born of a virgin so that he did not inherit the defect. His "father" was God. By his life, death and resurrection, it made it possible for God to repair the defect within human's spirits through a "new birth". All a person has to do is ask and believe.

What does God have no daughter? He did not need a female to compelte his plan of salvation, only a male - because it is the male who passed the defect. Why have a daughter and send her through the torture, death, etc that his Son suffered if it is not needed?

But at the same time, God has many daughters. The scriptures tells us that anyone who believes in Jesus is made into a son or daughter of God. Through his plan of salvation, God can have all the sons and daughters he wants - but only have to sacrifice the one.

Answer 3

It is based on the Patriarchal Society
The son always succeeds the father/or is delegated the authority by the father.
Thus the son.
Only Son ?
To avoid a conflict at succession/ delegation of authority.
Daughters ?
The position of women in most of the societies was inferior to men.
A mother could command respect from her son. A sister/daughter/wife were not treated on the equal footing by the male members of the family even if the women was elder to the given male.

Thus God could never think of having a daughter as his representative for fear of non-acceptance by humans.

Answer 4

Just my own reflection...

There are two issues here, the Trinity and the Incarnation.

God in Christian thought is three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, yet still perfectly one.

The person of the Son incarnated as Jesus Christ. This is what Christians call the Incarnation, and there many debates over what exactly happened. The orthodox Christian belief (ie Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians... therefore excluding sects like the Mormons or the Jehova's Witnesses) is that at the moment of Jesus' being conceived in the womb of Mary (a conception which we believe to have been through the Holy Spirit and therefore virginal) the second person of the Trinity (God the Son) took on human nature, so that the divine nature did not become human nature, nor human nature become divine, but the two became unified in the one person of God the Son, Jesus Christ. Also, in assuming a human nature, the divine nature did not negate any part of human nature, so that Jesus had a human body, a human soul, a human will in addition to a divine will and divine nature.

In the trinity, God the Father, begets or generates God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. But though they are unified, the persons of the trinity are distict persons. God the Son is Son (I think) because he incarnates as Jesus of Nazareth, a man (with gender and therefore it makes sense to say "son" and not "daughter"... remember the Trinity as a theological concept comes along after the birth of Jesus). The Father doen't have gender, but I think the reason for the choice of "Father" as the name of this person of the Trinity has to do with the relationship of the trinity to human beings and the understanding of Fatherhood and Motherhood in religion. First of all, that God relates to human beings means that human beings have to try to understand (what they can) about God in terms of human analogy. Because God is the origin of life, the parental terminology has always been present (there are instances in the old testament of God displaying motherlike qualities and Christian theology, at least my limited Catholic understanding of it talks about the validity of seeing God as also a motherly figure). But in terms of religious concepts of "mother" and "father", that which came from a mother was always seen to be of the same nature as the mother because the offspring comes from her body. Whereas, "father" was seen as a principle of life that does not mean the offspring shares in the same nature, ie that the offspiring is not directly from that which the father is. Hence because Christianity (and Judaism too... the term for God as Father was a Jewish idea as much as it was Christian) sees creation as being something different from God (ie that creation is not divine in the sense of being also God like the pantheism of other ancient religions believed) God is "Father".

Answer 5

Maybe he is a man that became one with the mind of God? Perhaps we are all prodigal sons and daughters of God. However, the concepts that man hold about God are so far from reality.


Yeshua/Jesus was a man. The Ebonites who were the first followers in Jerusalem knew this and the gnostics. Really, the church created the whole Jesus-god in the Assembly at Nicea.

Answer 6

The Almighty is referred to as "HE" but that does not indicate the same thing that it does in humanity. The "Son" was indeed male when a human, but in His Spiritual being (and we are told there is no marrying in Heaven) He is not limited by "maleness". The Almighty is YHVH, and He is perfect. His Son's name means YHVH is my savior, so His name is YAHOSHUA!

Answer 7

Only God can answer your question. So my answer is: your guess is as good as mine.
Peace!