Why do many people say God is a "He"?

Question

Wouldn't it be more logical for God to be a "She"? I mean, if you're giving birth to a whole universe and the beginning of life within it, that seems inherently motherly to me.

Answer 1

God is a spirit creature, so he is neither female nor male. We say "He" because, the male gender is the dominant one.
I like your thinking on this subject, and you are partially right. God has both motherly and manly qualities. He created the universe, and I guess that would be a motherly trait. I rwally do love your thinking!

Answer 2

Great Question, Bill,

People say God is a He because the Christian perspective of God perceives a masculine image. The original Greek text of the New Testament uses specifically masculine derivations of words when describing God. For Christians, not only are God and Jesus males but also the Holy Spirit that indwells believers is also a He.

A lot of the earth religions (wicca, etc.) may perceive feminine dieties. Others perceive both male and female as a pair in order for worship to be proper and complete.

My Blessings To You,
Reggie:)

Answer 3

The most logical, I think, is that God is both "He" and "She".

"The authors of the Bible do not directly point at any human kinship able to help us understand the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son. Still some think they perceive such a relation. Like in the following words: "As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” Isaiah 66:13. And when someone is born again, he is born by the Spirit. John 3:5,6.
The description of God as a mother that gives birth to and then comforts her children with many has aroused the heart-warming idea that they have a Mother in heaven, as certainly as they have a Father. Like expressed in Lina Sandells’ emotional song, “Tender chicken Mother of mine, how can I love and praise you for ever?…Under the wing you hide this little timid child of yours.” The picture of a father can never fully satisfy the longing for a mothers’ care. And from a human perspective only one person in the Godhead remains for the female role, namely the Holy Spirit."

Answer 4

Without doubt God is a duality of male and female. Early church wanted complete power so they nearly erased the female aspect of God. The Earth is made up of male and female in nearly all aspects from humans to plants so I think that is proof that God is a duality. The male aspect of God is static, all loving and experience. The female aspect of God is the mover, the part that intervenes in our lives, the part that responds to prayer. The female part of God has been called many things like Issis, Azna and such. Goddess worship was and is a part of trying to bring the female aspect of God back to the forefront.

Answer 5

I like your reasoning.

However, God is refered to as He because The Church has always been run by MEN. If God was a woman that would give them less power over the people. Women would want equality ... so ... they didn't allow it.

There couldn't be a She without a He ... otherwise Creation wouldn't happen.

Answer 6

God is neither male nor female, but more like a spirit. And God didn't give "birth" to a whole universe, he made it.

Answer 7

Because God himself regards his heavenly organisation as a "Bride".
(Revelation 12:1-5) And a great sign was seen in heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars, 2 and she was pregnant. And she cries out in her pains and in her agony to give birth. 3 And another sign was seen in heaven, and, look! a great fiery-colored dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and upon its heads seven diadems; 4 and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, that, when she did give birth, it might devour her child. 5 And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was caught away to God and to his throne.

The male son is Jesus. But this woman is not Mary.

(Revelation 19:7-8) Let us rejoice and be overjoyed, and let us give him the glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has arrived and his wife has prepared herself. 8 Yes, it has been granted to her to be arrayed in bright, clean, fine linen, for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the holy ones.”

The holy Ones, the 144,000 [of Rev. 7;4 & 14;1] are considered as a woman or bride.
This implies that almighty God and his son are both male in concept.
And that a females role is as a helper or assistant, as Eve was created.

Answer 8

Giving birth to and creating are two different things, wouldn't you agree?

Besides, we know God isn't female. How do we know? Because when Cain said "am I my brother's keeper", God would have answered (if female) "heck yeah! I TOLD you to watch after your little brother, it's a big world out there!"

We know because if God had been female, the wise men would have showed up on time, brought better gifts and stayed to help clean up the manger.

We know because if God had been female, men would have their d*** on their chin.

Answer 9

God didn't literally give birth. The Bible refers to Him as a "He", and so that is why we do. He also would have come to Earth as a woman instead of a man.

Answer 10

Well, a she that does all that without a he to plant the seed would be just as illogical. It's just a convention, and it's the least thing that bothers me about the idea of God
(make God a hot he, and it would bother me even less;) )