Why does my born again Christian Sister insist that Father God might me a mother god?

Question

I questioned her if she prays to the Father God in her prayer closet time. She said mother god.

The Holy Bible only refers to God as Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

So, why does she think she is praying to mother god at times? What Biblical scriptual reference is there to support her belief?

I have looked up old Hebrew references to Father God in Old Testament and Ab is Father and Am is Mother. Father in New Testament Greek is Patier and Mother is Matier.

Answer 1

Probably because she does not read or study the Bible.

She should know that there is a price to be paid for false teachings........IMO, that would apply here..............

Answer 2

Well, there isn't any. God technically is neither male or female.

The old testament calls him El their Elohim. El is masculine. Never has God been expressed as feminine in Judaism or Christianity, scriptually speaking.

Jesus calls him the father and so do we.

Some Catholics make their reverence of Mary very close to pagan goddess worship but that's not biblical either.

So from a christian standpoint, there is no Mother God.

Answer 3

When you study the characteristics of God in both the New Testament and the Old Testament God is given both motherly and fatherly characteristics.

Fatherly characteristics dominate the Biblical language due to the patriarchail society during the time it was written.

Calling God a "Father" or "Mother" is just one way we try to use our own culture or language to try to comprehend God. Applying human triats to something that is not human. This is called anthropormorphisms.

Ultimately God is neither. God is God. However, we can come to understand certain characteristics of God by understanding him as Father or Mother. The Fatherly characteristics seem to dominate the Bible and therefore it is best to understand God as Father. Jesus also prayed to the Father. And if you want to follow Christ's footsteps you should also pray to the Father.

Answer 4

Some branches of Christianity seem to think that the Holy Spirit is feminine in Hebrew (but this is unclear since the Jewish scriptures seem to lack any clear reference to God the Holy Spirit). Since "wisdom" in the Book of Proverbs is described as a woman calling out to all of the young men to listen to her in one particular passage, then some people seem to assume that "wisdom" is another word for the Holy Spirit. Of course, this same passage from Proverbs also describes sin as another woman trying to seduce young men away from "wisdom", yet no one uses this passage to suggest that the devil might be female too.

Sounds like a bogus theory to me. Is your sister a feminist, by any chance?

Answer 5

I think that it can be seen either way. Mother has qualities of love and compassion, Father has quality of principle and reason. It's all in how you look at the two terms. I think the actual God would be a combination of the two qualities in one, don't you think?

Answer 6

doing this implies god has a gender for sexual reproduction, implying that would mean you believe there are multiple gods and that they reproduce to make other gods, making christianity quite similar to greek mythology.

for the record the bible was written in times where men were superior to women. thus to have written that god was a "she" wouldnt have gotten the bible very far in the first place. we only call god a he to genderize it to make it easier to talk about.

peopel call their boats and cars "she".

Answer 7

I guess she is mistaken. To add gender to God is to make him human. Male or Female. God is neither. God created male and female in the beginning. Meaning they didn't exist before.
Calling God mother, is not praying to God. He is not mother and in a literal sense (as reference to gender) he is not father.
In English we use he because that's the rule. you use he until you know the gender at least in the older rules.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

There is nothing to support her belief and if she believes God is female she IS NOT BORN AGAIN.

Answer 10

There is no Biblical basis to call God "Mother" she may just have listened to too female supremisists.