Why is god a He not a She?

Question

I know he's not a she or a he, but people refer to him as HE, why? I don't think thats fair...


Sorry if i offended anyone i am just wondering..

Answer 1

i personally agree with you us guys pretty much get everything huh if i believed there was a god i'd put "dess" at the end cause i defenatly worship women and also a female god sounds more pure
an atheist

Answer 2

God's beyond gender.
Actually in the Old Testament the Holy Spirit is most frequently refered to in the feminine form of the Hebrew. In fact Tom Wright (evangelical theologian and Bishop in the UK) preached a whole sermon refering to the HS as she.

There's a couple of female images given to God in the Bible but the predominant one is of a father - you could say this is because it was written trying to communicate to a patriarchal people who had no concept of a powerful woman but there's also something about God as Father that resonates even for feminists like me.

Answer 3

The god I worship is male.

The goddess I worship is female.

Not everyone thinks like the Christians do. The idea of there being one god - is very young. The idea that god is exclusively male is even younger. For most of human history, that was not what people believed at all.

Imagine you are a caveman and you're thinking about a creator deity. In the cave next door, the ultimate act of creation - childbirth - is happening. How are you going to see that deity? A woman creates life. (Remember, cavemen didn't know the science of sperm plus egg. They knew only the reality of baby coming out of woman.)

Answer 4

At the start of how we think humanity evolved with religions, there is evidence that the first deities were female or woman-centered and women had powers of religious leadership, and had been for a long time until men started getting the idea they wanted the power and the monotheistic religions arose... along with their rise, the roles of women took a huge "backseat". What turned the tide, nobody knows but generally it's thought that power and greed had a lot to do with it.

_()_

Answer 5

because its easier to refer god as a sex figure back then when the church was very corrupt with power.The pope and the persist are very corrupt with power and they were sexist people back then so that don't want to refer god as a woman, they want to refer to god as a man.So they refer god as a he instead of a she because men has more power in the church than the women and the men though that the women are weaker than the man.that why they refer to god as a he/him in the bible.

from greek myth, the supernatural male figure is a god and a supernatural female figure is a godness.so that also may be the reason why too.

Answer 6

One theory is that the Judeo-Christian concept of God as Father stems from the fact that being creator of everything means that we can think of God in a parental way, but since to think of God as Mother might lead to the idea that creation shares the nature of God the same way that a baby comes from the body of the mother, father was prefered since it indicated "principle of life" and still maintained the trascendence of God in relation to creation.

There are though several passages in the Bible where God uses motherly language with his people Israel. Isaiah 42:14 and 66:13 as well as Psalm 131 and another quote (Could a mother forget her child... even still I will not forget you).

Here is the reflection on the issue of God as Father:

"By calling God "Father", the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. the language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard: no one is father as God is Father." http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P17.HTM#$7Y paragraph 239.

Also, I think the fact that the words in greek and latin "theos" and "deus" respectively are both masculine have something to do with the common use of the pronoun "He"... keep in mind that the gender of words are a matter of grammar and not necessarily a matter of anatomy.

Personally, because we relate to God as person and not as an abstract we have to use a personal pronoun and not just say "God" all the time (something some try to do to make things gender neutral).

By the way, in case this helps, the best divine attributes, wisdom, justice, agape love, are all feminine and represented as women.

Answer 7

If you are a Christian, the answer is simple: God is a male and not a female nor sexless. As far as I know babies are the results of a sexual encounter between a male and a female; never from two females nor two males. Jesus was "born of a woman." Which means his Father was a male. Jesus always called God Father and promised believers they too can called God "abba", Hebrew for Father. Jesus also said, "if you see me, then you have seen the Father."

Answer 8

The Bronze age "wise men" who wrote the Bible were incredibly misogynistic. That's why Eve was responsible for the Fall of Man, and there's stuff in the Bible about women being forbidden to speak in churches, etc.

Answer 9

because the religous scriptures were written by men. Those who write history, get to tell it as they wish. Back in the day (and i dont mean 1983), the world was a different place, and only men of a high social standing were educated in the art of writting, and thus got to write it as they wanted to.

Answer 10

It is a male chauvinist thing that women still fighting up until this day.

Have you ever heard of a he goddess? What you have here is a male god and female goddess. There are other religions out there that have goddesses.