Why are women missing from the trinity concept?

Answer 1

Well, if you researched the history of how the Catholic church melded a little of the British Isle's paganism, you would find that there is a female trinity in there that was replaced with the Christian one. It was Maiden, Mother and Crone. The three stages of life, and of the goddess who they worshiped. Of course, back in those days, who in the civilized world would ever want to exalt or worship women? They put a stop to it by incorporating the ideas of the holy trinity and several others (Christmas/Winter Solstice, Easter/Beltane, Halloween/Samhein) into the church's doctrine to attract the pagans to their belief.

Answer 2

Can you believe, I was so sure that this Holy Family was Mother and Father and Son. I was real confused when they told me how it is. I did not buy it.

I have to admit that I am still a little bit confused about Trinity. I do not need the female part in the picture because God is only one and it really would be confusing if God was both female and male. I do not say that He ould not be if He wanted. But it is quite clear when you think of the Son and the Father God heads.

Woman gave the birth to Jesus. I think we were involved. Adam was created from dirt and Eve from his rib. All the other men and women are born from women, even Jesus=God in human form.

Answer 3

If you are talking about the Christian theological concept, that would be because Christians didn't just make up the concept arbitrarily with an attempt at symmetry.

Strictly speaking there is only one "man" in the Trinity concept anyway.

Of the Father, Son, and Spirit, only the Son can be said to be a "man" because he became incarnate as a human man (while retaining his divinity) and not as a human woman.

Of all three in their divinity, masculine pronouns are preferred (because these are the pronouns used in the Bible), but this is a matter of gendered language and not of physical gender.

The title "Father" as opposed to "Mother" is another instance of masculine-gendered language being preferred, but also does not imply biological gender (as if God were a human being who could be a man or a woman).

In metaphors and analogies, any of the three persons of the Trinity can be legitimately referred to (even in the Bible) with either feminine or masculine metaphors (Jesus in Matthew 23.37 and Luke 13.34 refers to himself as being like a mother hen for example), but this is still not biological gender.

I guess in conclusion, if you are asking why none of the three persons in the Trinity are human women, the answer is because only one of them ever became a human, and he (for reasons best known to himself) became a human man.

If you are asking why (traditionally) male language is used more often than female language, the answer is that the Bible started it, and while some Christians today use feminine language for God, most would prefer to stick with the precedent set by the authors of the Bible.

Answer 4

Because if God sent (which would be neither man nor woman) sent "his" "daughter" no one of the time would have listened to "her". If you want a society to believe in you and gender doesn't matter to you, then it really doesn't matter if the people think the trinity is man or woman, because that is whatever they need, not what the God needs, because the god is neither.

Answer 5

He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man." - Genesis 5:2

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. - Genesis 1:27

The Bible says that he created man and woman in his image. I don't believe that "He" or "She" could describe God. I feel that the Bible refers to God as the Father because he is the creator. But I don't really believe that he is male nor female. He just is. So, I don't think that woman is missing from the trinity, just not described there.

Answer 6

Actually, the Holy Spirit was viewed as female in the Gnostic texts.

If God is Spirit or light then both male and female are incorrect. These are labels we use for our own convenience.

Answer 7

I am female, and I do nto miss the trinity concept, I believe in the trinity.

Answer 8

Because that's how the story goes. God is the author and finisher, as the Bible says and He is the one we are talking about. HE as in male. Since the trinity is 3 aspects of ONE God, and God is male, then it would stand to reason there would be no females here.

Answer 9

They are not present in the Christian trinity because men invented it and were trying to place themselves as closer to the divine than women.

Answer 10

God is referred to as if male, but the truth is, He is neither male nor female.
Just as we refer to humans as a whole as, mankind.