Jesus does call him Father! For all father's are "he". Than, God MUST be a He right?
2007-01-29 14:18:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is beyond our sexuality. Our attempts to describe God as such are called anthropomorphisms - like saying the "hand" of God swept across the invading army. God is in fact described in the feminine in Proverbs. Hosea broke radically new ground by describing God in the sexual terms of relationship w/ Israel. It is a linquistic pecularity used for convenience. Even by Jesus who could barely get the crowds to understand they were all children of God and he was the Son of Man.
2007-01-29 15:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a Spirit, God came to this world in human form as a man, Jesus. How else could He approach people? The fact that He came as a man is not important and it is just a flimsy excuse to deny Christ. Jesus, was very considerate to woman and children. In the time that He came men were dominate over women. If He came as a woman, no one would have listened. But to Christ there is no difference in value between male and female.
2007-01-29 22:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by angel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's not a man.
In Islam, God has no sex, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. . . God has no human attributes. I'm sure the same went for Christianity 2000 years ago before it was tampered with by man, but since then, Christians believe that Jesus, a man, was God. No disrespect to Christians for believing that, but I'm not buying.
2007-01-29 22:51:16 · answer #3 · answered by LaissezFaire 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God does not have to have to be a he or a she. Humans have gender, our creator does not. He is usually thought of as a male because He is the Father.
2007-01-29 22:29:16 · answer #4 · answered by laura michelle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is without body, therefor he is genderless, he is however refured to as the father, because the "father" is at the head of the household
2007-01-29 22:33:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think God is a spirit. No body, therefore, no gender. Humans wrote the bible and the bible clearly consists of males dominating over females. So, it's possible that God was "made" a "he" by male bible authors. Eh, it's at least possible:)
2007-01-29 22:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by leecappella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong, sort of.
Hebrew and Greek have linguistic gender. In English, male things are actually male, female things are actually female, and neuter things are actually neuter. In the languages of the Bible, it is possible for neuter things to have masculine or feminine ending. Most (but not all) of the names and titles for God have linguistically masculine endings, so God is decribed as "he." But the same convention is not consistently applied in translation. In Hebrew, for example, the golden lampstand in the temple is described as "he," and in Greek the "rock" upon which the Church is built is "she." Wisdom is 'she,' the Holy Spirit is 'it.' In fact, the Hebrew word for God (Elohim) is actually feminine in the plural, and masculine in the singular. The glory of God is 'she,' and angels are 'he.'
2007-01-29 22:27:45 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just more evidence that men created god. They gave the creator of the universe genitalia.
2007-01-29 22:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by Vlasko 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Back when christianity first came about, men were considered "dominant" because they don't have the ability to give birth.
2007-01-29 22:22:31 · answer #9 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think God is both - male and female. How else are we all made in his image?
2007-01-29 22:22:58 · answer #10 · answered by The Pope 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋