He means your male right?
2007-09-21 20:22:18 · 15 answers · asked by Eason W 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I try to avoid such terms. God is beyond that. We also must get beyond that in a spiritual sense. We must all empathize with everyone else, it's part of Love, that makes it part of God. To be one with God one must be both the inside and the outside, male and female, black and white. We must see God in everyone even if thy can't see God within themselves. If we love the God within them then perhaps we will show them the respect that every human of every class, color, nationality, gender, or sexual preference deserves. You don't have to participate to be respectful and loving.
Love one another as I have loved you.
2007-09-21 20:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say(quite rightly) Mother/Father God. I guess most of the earlier religions were male orientated so the Father part was chosen. But God is the father of the Son, and indeed is the son. But God is whatever you want God to be.
2007-09-22 03:30:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The King James Bible states that God is male. Jesus the son of God and the virgin Mary, called God his father, meaning the male parent.
2007-09-22 03:30:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it says that God is a male spirit and He is also descibed more masculine then feminine. also the fact that Jesus was a man could help contribute to this thought. i think that when people say that God is neither male nor female that they are saying more so that he is not a man or woman, making him not a human, but a spirit. get my drift?
2007-09-22 03:34:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is the real answer:
Because the Hebrew names for God are always in the masculine. All the words in Hebrew that name God are masculine nouns, verbs, etc. So the translators used masculine terms when translating into English.
2007-09-22 03:48:36 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
back in the day the saw men as being more powerful than woman, so when they invented the god idea, they called him Him to represent strength, power, knowledge, etc. Now we know women are better balanced in these categories :) , but, its just a fable and no one is editing aesop, so, why bother.
2007-09-22 03:28:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
he is not sexual has no body but he sounds better than '' He she it'' at the time the bible was wryin men were in control so they felt God must be male being in control of the whole world.
2007-09-22 03:28:56 · answer #7 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe because thousands of years ago when men and women were not equal, and men were considered greater than women, the term "he" was coined for God because refering to God as "it" sounds really disrespectful. I don't know, it's just my best guess.
2007-09-22 03:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by Rik 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is masculine not feminine. Read the description of Him in the Bible in no way is He feminine. He is God the Father, not God the mother.
2007-09-22 03:28:46 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Standard sexo-centrism of the human race, man good, powerful, righteous, in charge, woman subordinate.
2007-09-22 03:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋