2007-08-13 08:50:56 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In a way Anonymous is right, but it's more complex than that.
God is a spirit. It says in Genesis that God made humans in His image "male and female" God made them. Wouldn't that imply that God is both?
The problem with that line of thinking is that leads us to a hermaphrodite God, which is ridiculous. God doesn't have genitals. So He can't really be a He more than a She.
MCC has this great hymn that goes: Our God is not a woman, our God is not a man. Our God is both and neither. He is the Great I AM.
The off-rhyme notwithstanding, I think that's pretty good theology.
God got slapped with the masculine pronoun because of the massively patriarchal societies the bible was compiled in. But to say God is male is just as right and just as wrong as saying that God is female.
2007-08-13 08:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Two prong answer...
first..."no1 has seen Him"....how about Adam and Eve...they walked in the cool of day with Him...or Moses, who may not have seen His face, but did spend time with Him on the mountain. Could go on with Abraham and many of the others...
Second...as Jesus said..."if you've seen me, you've seen the Father."....now.. here is a Man who entered our time, came from another kingdom..... if I was Peter or John, or Mark, and I'd seen what they'd seen...I'd have to trust Him when Jesus refers to God as His Father."
but then again...there will still be those who say we refer to Him as Father because the writers were in a patriarchal society, or tell us, even before Christianity, there was goddess worship. Will be a hundred reasons on why folks want to hold it in their heart that God is not who He says He is.
2007-08-13 15:59:00 · answer #2 · answered by Last Stand 2010 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because back when the eligion came to be many cultures had a belief that men were superior than women so their God had to be a man.
Aslo people have a need to make something they cant see into human form or something similar to what they know so hence they made God into a man or a human like form.
2007-08-13 16:04:26 · answer #3 · answered by Liz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prophets have seen Him.
Adam in the garden, and Moses spoke with Him face to face as one man speaks to another. These are a couple of the accounts in which we know of.
And Joseph Smith saw both God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ in more modern times.
And if that isn't good enough reason Christ refers to Him as our Father (the male parent) many times.
2007-08-13 15:57:57 · answer #4 · answered by Bubblewrap 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best advice I can give you is to read your bible and go to a good Bible teaching church, a church that does not make up their own rules or interpretations. When God made man Adam, he made Man the head of the household then the woman as his helpmeet. God is a he because he would be going against his own word if God was a she. A pastor could explain this to you better. In the Bible he is our father, Our farther who art in heaven. Father = Man like Mother= woman. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one the "Trinity" Jesus came to this earth ram in the Flesh form of God.
2007-08-13 16:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by KK 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It called christianity whose holy books were most probably written by men. Women has no rights in those days. So it would have been against the grain to have called god a she. As it happens, it matters not a bit as god is a fiction.
2007-08-13 15:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Females of 2 to 5 thousand years ago were not allowed to participate in the invention of their God. Thus the reason for He or Him.
2007-08-13 15:57:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally, the masculine singular pronouns he, his, and him have been used generically to refer to indefinite pronouns like anyone, everyone, and someone (Everyone who agrees should raise his right hand) and to singular nouns that can be applied to either sex (painter, parent, person, teacher, writer, etc.): Every writer knows that his first book is not likely to be a bestseller. This generic use is often criticized as sexist, although many speakers and writers continue the practice.
2007-08-13 16:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by RuG™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given a choice, all cultures I know of have chosen he over it. It is less respectful. It's a language thing to signify a high level being. There is neither male nor female on a higher level.
2007-08-13 16:00:45 · answer #9 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made Adam as a reflection of himself therefore, God is a male. I guess you could ask Moses what the backside of God looked like, but...
2007-08-13 15:57:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋