Can it be that god is a woman?

Question

i'm christian by the way, so i'm not talking to atheist or polytheist. why can't it be that god is a woman

Answer 1

Well, God certainly is moody enough to be female...

Answer 2

Our concept of God is masculine. It stems from the beliefs of the Christian Judeo concept of God....the opinion that God is masculine.

It is the primary reason that man is dominant over female and enjoys the status he has with God....both being male.

While your question borders on heresy to the fundamentalist amongst us.....I would invite you to take a look at all the major religious beliefs that predate our Christian Judeo. The deity worshiped was the Goddess and to this day there are minor religions that believe in a Goddess deity.

Back to your question.....can it be that god is a woman? I believe so.....I address my God as both He and She....it feels comfortable and it feels right. My God simply cannot leave out 50% of us and I have yet to find a man who can even begin to fathom the mind of a woman, or for that matter a woman who can fathom the mind of a man. So yes....god could be a woman.

By the way.....I'm a man.

Answer 3

Of course God can be female. How we worship directly relates to culture. Ancient matriarchal societies worshipped Goddesses, which may have seemed natural to them since they saw that women were the ones who gave birth, hence the "life-givers." When societies became patriarchal, they began to wipe out all evidence of Goddess worship and focused exclusively a male God. I think the reluctance to accept Goddess worship stems from male inferiority complexes over not being the ones who give birth. That's why there are so many "life-giving" symbols that are male in religion. A male God gives birth to the world, Adam gives birth to Eve, (and we refer to it as rib birth), and Jesus "gives us eternal life" etc. etc. We know in real life it is a woman who does the majority of the work when it comes to bringing life into the world and the male plays a very small role. This makes some men feel inferior to women, thus they created a religion where males are the life-givers. They created a religion where male "gives birth" to female, because they themselves feel inferior because they "come from" us. Few men will admit this, and so they hold on to male-oriented religions, not admitting they are inherently biased because they were designed in times of patriarchy.

Answer 4

i think that any reference to God as "male" was used to make it easier for people to understand and accept- at THAT time in history when our cultures were patriarchal...because societies were run by men, logically there had to be a male figure ruling the spirit world, and people would have rejected the idea of feminine Divinity. (sounds like today for some people)

earlier in time the term Goddess was more frequently used, because there were female rulers- ex. egypt and ancient greece

but i think that both are just words that symbolize something that we could relate to- people want to believe that we are physically made in the image and likeness-

the truth about God is much bigger than gender, and it could mean that we are:

love
pure potential
creators

Answer 5

For some reason, I just can't see God as a woman. Also, it was God that gave Mary her baby, and I can't see a woman doing that, or it would be considered homosexual. And you know the Bible's view on homosexuality.

Answer 6

God as a spirit being is neither man nor woman. But Jesus referred to Him as Father.

Answer 7

God has no form so God is neither man nor woman. The image that we are created "like" is the LIFE that is in you!

Answer 8

God is neither male nor female I find it hard to believe some one claiming to be christian can not understand that. the bible refers to God as male as it was a patriarchal society in Israel and he certainly sound better than it or '' he/she/ it''

Answer 9

God can be anything and is everything,its certain faiths with wrong knowledge that gives God gender,not God

Answer 10

Jesus speaks of God as "Father" and also in masculine terms. Our model prayer, given by Jesus, begins "Our Father, Who is in heaven, holy is your name."

Adam was made in the image of God. Eve was made from man.

All the Hebrew scriptures as well as the Greek use masculine terms for God.

So no, there is zero evidence for this. God is a Spirit, and those that come to Him must come in spirit and in TRUTH.

Answer 11

This question is easy if you have your Bible:

God created Man In His Own Image, and from the rib of man, He created woman; also, who do you think impregnated Marry with Jesus? It took a male sperm to procreate Him, I havent yet seen a woman do it herself.