Just imagine if you will that our God was female, How would the world be different?

Question

Would the world be a better place, or would it be the same, or even worse off?

I am not saying God is a man, I merley suggest if God was definitly female would it make the world different. God is however seen as a Father, which logically makes Gad male, not that, that is a good thing or not.

Answer 1

I will try to stay faithful to the spirit of you question. If God were actually female, then yes, the world would be a vastly different sort of place. For one thing, I don't think she would tolerate people worshipping HER as a male, so all of history would vastly change for a lot of different reasons. If nothing else, merely the butterfly effect would change everything. All it would take would be just one person doing one little thing differently a few thousand years ago due to the fact that he or she conceived of God as female, and kazzzam! everything changes.

But aside from that mathematical technicality, the whole female God business would change the way people worship. First of all, a truly female God would not tolerate everybody calling Her "God the Father" etc. – She would make sure that the scriptures referred to Her as a woman, so therefore everybody would think in terms of God as a woman, so even if She herself were in fact no different (in terms of personality, temperament, omniscience, etc) than "God the Father", there would still be vast differences in history just because PEOPLE thought of God as a female. The image of God as a male was used by men to help establish patriarchy, so without it, patriarchy might not have dominated in quite the way that it did. But this would take us to a sociological question that I won't get into any further here.

Getting back to how an actual female God might act…well…historically speaking, "God the Father" got pretty pissed off by people worshipping goddesses and farm animals and whatnot, so He sent the armies of his chosen people, armed with swords, to do some slicing and dicing. I suppose a female God could have done the same thing if people were worshipping the WRONG Goddess, but I doubt she would send Her thugs to chop up elderly folks, and babies who were still suckling at their mother's breasts (I believe this is in Deuteronomy 32:25…for those of you who like to sing along at home). Somehow I just can't see a female God doing that – I mean, if She is actually female, and if She is not a total psycho, then She'd have some maternal instincts wouldn't She?

Anyway, a major part of making God MALE was to help establish patriarchy, so that men could control females sexuality so they could keep track of their offspring so that they could be sure that wealth and privilege were passed down through the MAN'S lineage…and I just can't see a female God being cool with that sort of thing.

But of course me REAL answer would be that all of this is just plain silly. I'm fairly certain that God (if there even is a God) is neither male nor female, so if God really were a female, then it is not just "being female" that changes everything, but being "specifically gendered" (whether male or female) would warp reality out of all recognition. Personally, I choose to think of God as a Goddess just because I prefer the female imagery, but I don't really think that God is either male or female. In fact, if you get right down to it, I don't really see God as a "person" in any ordinary sense at all. For example, I don't really think that God is the sort of being who has a temper tantrum and drowns millions of people (not to mention all of their little kitty cats and puppy dogs, and whatever) in a flood. So I think the more interesting question would be this: "What if the imagery of God as a woman had been the dominant religious image in human history?" This would be a sociological question dealing with the relationship between the dominant religious imagery and the formation of cultural ethics, etc. I don't really know, of course, but my hope would be that feminine traits (and therefore women themselves) in such a culture would not be devalued, and perhaps such a culture without the oppression of women would be somewhat more healthy and balanced. At least that would be my hope.

Answer 2

Where did it all start ?

The Cosmic Egg.

The hard truth is, boys, that we were an afterthought. Even in human manifestation terms, the genome for the female is traceable back in present ( homo sapiens sapiens ) form abput 250,000 years, whereas the male is only found back to about 150,000 years..........which leaves a rather embarrassing gap. It would appear that the male came along long after the female event.

In fact I rather suspect that our foremothers got bored of each others company and started playing aroubnd with the breeding patterns. Some believe that the apes descended from us, maybe some of the early experiments didn´t turn out quite as expected.......or maybe they did !

Anyway, I suspect that we were created as an entire gender of amusement, nothing but a bunch of toy boys !

Thus, taking the ancient texts a trifle literally, if ´God´made us in his/her ´form´, and the female came first, then I guess that ´God´is, as many have suggested is more related to the female, in as far as that can have any relevance at the Creator level.

So..........maybe we should answering the question "What would the world be like if ´God´ had been male ?

Answer :

Probably quite different.............but maybe just the same. :-)

Answer 3

As a Christian I believe that if God was a female the human race would have ended with Eve, The reason Being that the Bible states that both man and woman were made in the image of God, Therefor a female god would only make a female human. The reason the Bible refers to God as a Father is because it is our sorry little selves trying to define somthing that is infinately beyond our comprehension. That's what I believe anyway.

Answer 4

I adored my Dad - wise, funny, always open and curious. No at all like a God who would sell his Chosen People into slavery, or ask Abraham to kill his son; or be jealous, possessive, narcisistic, or vengeful demanding obedience and worship. So my Dad would have been an excellent god though far to wise to take the job. Mother was Irish, loving without being overbearing, illogical, often unpredictible, intuitive and often hilarious - but too occupied with her own interests to volunteer. So I don't think the Father or Mother model is appropriate for a god of any kind. But if I had to choose I'd choose a woman. Free of social constraints and the dogma and scripts of others, a woman would be appropriate for the job - observant, practical, pragmatic, caring, discerning without being too judgemental; tolerant with firm limits; and well enough adjusted to her own frailties to be confident without the need for adulation. So the world might be a better place. But it would be even better without any gods at all, or hubris and delusions, and a lot more intelligent good sense and good humour - which, come to think of it, was what my parents aimed for.

Answer 5

God isn't male or female it's just our perception has been dominated by a patriarchal society. There are lovely images for God in the Christian Bible like lover, light, water, love but people seem to attach themselves to the idea of Father because of Jesus addressing God as Father. Personally I like the idea of God as friendship, seen in the writings of St Aelred, a 12th monk from Yorks.

Answer 6

marian{In the first book of the Bible, in Genesis, in the first chapter:"Let us make man in our image; male and female made he them."}

Yeah this about says it too marian:
Our Image = Male and Female.

Logically the misfit in this statement is 'He' whatever it means surely a believer in God wouldn't choose to question the infallibility of their God and say 'he' reckons 'he' is both but 'he' isn't.

If God was all female she would have been more inclined to keep nagging until she was understood rather than leave this ludicrous contradiction to propagate endlessly through the centuries. The wife side of the One Godness is probably nagging him right now to get around to fixing that broken thing that's been sitting on the shelf for thousands of years. ....

Answer 7

Hello. God is SPIRIT, so He's neither man or woman; HOWEVER, God would be closer to being male than female. God created the world by WISDOM, so everything God did to set this earth in motion was done RIGHTLY, in order, and in complete wisdom. So in one sense I don't think we'd see much difference because God would still create it by wisdom and not finite ideology! One of the Hebrew names for God is EL SHADDAI, which means BREASTIVE NURSE! God is the breastive nurse, so in a sense this shows His maternal side in caring for His own. He brooded or hovered over the face of the waters to do something miraculous and life giving for the earth. So based on my thoughts given, I believe it would be the same. God is God and He is watching over His people and those who don't know Him too. Peace!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

In the first book of the Bible, in Genesis, in the first chapter:
"Let us make man in our image; male and female made he them."
The concept here is God as the Father. A Christ [one who brings the message] as the Son. Where is the wife/mother?
Yet, the Bride is described in Revelation, is it in chapter 21?

Now this is Parallelism at work here. The entire Bible is set down in parallel structure. It is metaphorical concept poetry which is mostly written in prose. Poetry is a genre and prose is a mode.

Answer 10

Gender does not apply to the "deity"
There is no point in humanizing the Highest Power. It does no good to play out that exercise.
God, or the Highest Power, does not prescribe how our planet progresses. S/he does not take sides. Does not care. Turns that over to us to screw things up.