Not religious here but: Is there a Mother in Heaven as we have God, our Father in Heaven?

Question

Do we? How do you know? And, if we do, who is She?
To me it makes perfect sense: To be a Father you need a Mother, right?

Answer 1

Yes, it would be the blessed mother Mary; The Virgin Mary.

Answer 2

Although there is no direct mention of a "Mother" in Heaven, it is always a possibility. We never know what Heaven will be like. And God the Father takes on the title "Father" in a more figurative way than an actually literal form. He means that he is the benefactor of us all and we are all, in a sense, His "children", because he created us, just as a literal human father "creates" a baby. God the Father does not have to have a motherly figure to create people, He can do whatever He pleases, but that still does not rule out the possibility!

Answer 3

Yes, there is. In the concept of Christianity, her name is Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom, also known as the Holy Ghost. This is more known in the Jewish tradition than in the Christian because the writers of the Bible were basically working on a men's only club to suppress their womenfolk - many of whom still worshipped the Goddess and weren't so sure they liked the new regime where they basically became property. You will find Sophia in Christianity in the Gnostic Gospels. There's even a "Pistus Sophia" or Book of Sophia. These are things that were left out of the Bible because they didn't agree with what the early leaders wanted to establish - or brought up questions the leaders couldn't readily answer in a "men's only" religion.

Further back, the worship of the Goddess (with a God consort, of course) goes back to the dawn of civilization. Until Christianity, people have believed it rational that since there are men and women, Deity must be male and female as well.

Even throughout Christianity there have been sects that believe the Holy Trinity was Father, Mother, and Son. (And you can't deny the logic - it makes more sense than male, male, male.) A few of these have been the Gnostics, the Templars (the church didn't just take them down for the gold), the Shakers, and even a current group of Christian and pagan origin.

You should also look into the Black Madonnas - religious figures of women holding a baby and a sword, most with a water jug at their feet. They pre-date Christianity, but "became" the Virgin Mary to some over time and thereby escaped destruction. They are tied to the Languedoc region of France, where it is rumored that Mary Magdalene escaped to after Jesus was killed. A whole town went willingly to be burned at the stake during the Inquisition rather than deny that there was a Goddess. If I remember correctly one of the religious sects just outside their town was arrested and sentenced to burn, and the townsfolk went with them, though they didn't necessarily share the same religion. But the townsfolk KNEW there was a female God, and joined the sect in protest of the Catholic church's denial of the same.

Oh - and look into Mary Magdalene. According to the Gnostic Gospels, she was not only a full-fledged Disciple, she was first among the Disciples. Jesus' favorite. Paul apparently didn't appreciate that a lot. And far from being a prostitute, she may well have been a priestess of a Goddess religion from a country nearby. No wonder the early Church Fathers were intimidated enough by her to try to write her out of their book. Fortunately she was too popular at the time to be totally excluded - and now we have the Gnostic writings to fill in the blanks.

Have fun looking Her up! I only wish more people took the time to think and research for themselves instead of relying on only what someone has told them. The world would be a much better place.

Answer 4

Gaia is the Greek Goddess Mother Earth. If he is the Father of Heaven we would need Mother earth for balance.

Answer 5

Her story was destroyed when Patriarchal religions came into HIS-story. Any study of ancient history is full of a balanced worship with both male and female Gods before men started conquering the Earth. Even Egyptians had the Goddess Isis; the Catholics have tried to put Mary in Isis' role in an attempt to recreate that balance. Today, the growing popularity of Paganism and Wicca is because people are in such need of balance. Modern, or "organized" religions are failing their people.

Answer 6

"Listen O! Israel (said God). The Lord your God is the only God..."

No there is not such a thing nor at a far distance neither close as a Mother in Heaven.

Christianism is not like some other religions where one finds gods to suit every human mood.

Visions of Heaven by selected God servants reveal the truth there's one God sitting on a throne surrounded by glorious and powerful angels.

Answer 7

The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus is the mother of the Catholic Church. She is not a goddess although she and other saints are believed by Catholics to be in Heaven, the beatific vision being face to face with God. We pray for her intercession in our prayers to God because she knows how to present our needs and requests in a favorable way to Him. In mythology you will find Odin as the God of heaven and his wife (believe it or not) is named Frigg and is the Goddess. Thus when someone is called a Frigging woman it is a complement.

Answer 8

Maybe. As imperfect human beings we do not know what's in our future, when we die for example. Maybe we'll know after we go to the other side.
One thing I am certain of: Mary is not our Mother in heaven. No way. I respect her as the Mother of Jesus but she couldn't be humanity's mother as many have said.
She cannot.
Just think.
There was way too many people born or earth before Mary and at the time she was alive also.
So what about them?
To me, impossible.

Answer 9

To all the answerers here: have you all actually seen God, the trinity and all the rest of it or are you just repeating what you've been told? It might be what you call faith, but it's a hit and miss approach to truth. What are you all talking about!!

But as to your question - yes, I'd say there is a Mother.

Answer 10

If you take a look at the beginning of Genesis (Gen. 1:26-28) G-d refers to itself in the plural. The Hebrew word for G-d is plural and neuter (neither or both genders). The name Elohim being the plural male form (-im ending) of a feminine noun Eloah. This is where the English language has its shortcomings. Most languages have feminine and masculine forms of most nouns. English has very few, and the male gender is used when gender is unknown or to include both genders.

If we are created in G-d's image, and there is both male and female, I believe G-d is both male and female.

Answer 11

God transcends gender...
the Great Mystery is beyond our perceptions
We make labels like father mother male female in order to understand the incomprehensible (or rather to make the incomprehensible more understandable to those that cannot think outside of the world they see around them)