He's refered to as "Father in Heaven" but he has no gender. Is it wrong to call him "Mother" or "she"? I don't think it is. but is it?
2007-02-23 17:06:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes its okay. God is our everything. I have a friend that calls God, Grandaddy. Her grandad was a source of comfort and strength. God revels himself to her in that way. I never had a daddy, so He is my daddy. In the bible Jesus calls him Abba which means daddy. But God can be to you what you need. If its a mothers love your comfortable with or in need of... God is that too.
2007-02-23 17:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by Ellie B Good 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God tends to remain very particular about things, and throughout the Bible God is always addressed in the masculine.
Jesus, who is God, and the image of the Father, is also most definitely male.
God the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son, so there's no latitude for a feminine desription there either.
Sorry!
2007-02-24 07:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Judeo-Christian God is called "He" because Yahweh, the Israelite tribal God from whom He evolved, was a male deity. (There were many Gods and Goddesses worshipped in that part of the world at the time.) The male pronoun has been grandfathered in ever since. ;-)
Personally I believe that the Divine is beyond gender, but human beings, interpreting that fundamentally incomprehensible entity in human terms, usually feel most comfortable relating to the Divine as He or She. Call the Divine what you want. It remains the Divine.
2007-02-24 01:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it is not okay. God made many references as "He", "Father" "Him", all very clear. Do not make the mistake of seeking a feminine within the Godhead. It isn't there and to so borders on blasphemy if not outrightly so.
The only "Mother" that is recognized in the Godhead, and thus a feminine is Mary, Jesus' Mother; the Second Person of the Trinity.
2007-02-24 01:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle_My_Belle 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Feminine= unconditional, mercy
Masculine= conditional, Law
2007-02-24 01:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is wrong to call Him "mother". "Lord" doesn't mean "Lady". And man is more superior than woman, because woman means"taken out of man". Mother is like the vise-president of the family and the father is the president of the family. God is the superior of all things, that why he's the Lord of all but if we call him "mother" that would change everything, and that doesn't get along the name if he's the superior of all and we just call him the vice-president of the family. So it's more fitting if we call him father which suits his superiority.
2007-02-24 01:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by pink_orchid 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Neither father not mather, but only Lord..
This is due to mistranslation of hebrew text..
In hebrew lord and father has common word.
2007-02-24 01:13:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Clearly, anyone who gives an answer you disagree with, you will say is bigoted. You know your opinion and you know what you want to hear. So why bother asking?
2007-02-24 01:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by Amalthea 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the words of Jesus, 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem. How often I would gather you under my wings LIKE A MOTHER HEN, but you would not!'
How's that?
2007-02-24 01:17:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true He has no gender/sex, but I think He's made it pretty clear He wants to be referred to, and addressed, in masculine terms. We should respect that.
2007-02-24 01:13:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋