Do our Souls have a Gender?

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Not sure where this belongs. All these secular gender theories (which I don’t waste my time on) are not the bases for this question.
Do our souls have a gender?
 
The sex is related to the body and spirit has no matter or sex. Even while the saints await their physical bodies they retain the association with their sex since humans souls are meant to have bodies.

Angels can appear either male or female but they have no sex. The angel at Our Lady of Akita appeared female but only through appearance.
 
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In older spiritual writings, the souls of a man or woman is often referred to as “she”, but it’s an allusion to being the bride of Christ (as members of the Church) and because God is referred to as “He”.

It’s not a statement on modern day gender theory.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
In older spiritual writings, the souls of a man or woman is often referred to as “she”
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But aren’t those writings pre-Christian? Are you referring to anima and animus?
Considering that our soul is what we leave with from this world, to stand in front of God, and God created man and woman, probably our souls are also masculine for men and feminine for women.
 
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Because we will be like Jesus, who is the image of God, I believe our souls will have all traits of both sexes, and many which we do not know here on the earth. We will be complete, total, and in full communion with God and will carry all possible aspects of his character and personality. This does not mean we will be subject to the foibles of human sexuality. Only that we will understand completely all aspects of consciousness.
 
Divine3 said:
Not sure where this belongs. All these secular gender theories (which I don’t waste my time on) are not the bases for this question.
Do our souls have a gender?
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Well, understand that I say this somewhat tongue in cheek: I don’t know the answer to your specific question in reference to gender, but I believe that at the point of death the soul does trans to either Purgatory or Hell. 😁
 
OurLadyofSorrows said:
confusing because Jesus is God.
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My comment is based on I John 3:2. And because this forum is made up of a wide variety of faith traditions, I can’t assume that the teaching that Jesus is God is universally accepted by the ones I respond to. Personally I don’t find any confusion, I’m just adding a sort of train of events by stating it that way, but I can’t think of a superior way to convey my idea. 🙂
 
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HE, or SHE in spiritual terms often seems to derive more from circumstances and action in scripture than a sexual orientation idea.
The term Sophia for example.
 
CelticWarlord said:
My comment is based on I John 3:2. And because this forum is made up of a wide variety of faith traditions, I can’t assume that the teaching that Jesus is God is universally accepted by the ones I respond to. Personally I don’t find any confusion, I’m just adding a sort of train of events by stating it that way, but I can’t think of a superior way to convey my idea. 🙂
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All Christians would believe in the teaching Jesus is God. I guess you could say the human Jesus of Low Christology is made in the image and likeness of the divine Jesus of High Christology.

To address the original question, It is a great question. I am thinking along the lines of soul gets separated from the body at death. Both get reunited when Jesus returns and the final judgement occurs. Our bodies will be glorified, will our souls also be glorified? Does a glorified being have gender?
 
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I would say that since we’re a soul and body composite, that our souls will still be us, male or female, until and through the resurrection.
 
OurLadyofSorrows said:
All Christians would believe in the teaching Jesus is God
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Actually this isn’t always the case. Although the argument could then be made that if they don’t believe this, then they aren’t Christians. I’m not going to be a judge on that one. But I think the OP will find a wide variety of responses to the question. Thankfully you, I and others are providing ample fodder for thought. 🙂
 
Divine3 said:
Not sure where this belongs. All these secular gender theories (which I don’t waste my time on) are not the bases for this question.
Do our souls have a gender?
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The body has a sex. Note what St. Pope John Paul II wrote on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, 1997. Church Believes in Mary's Assumption | EWTN.
The dogma of the Assumption affirms that Mary’s body was glorified after her death. In fact, while for other human beings the resurrection of the body will take place at the end of the world, for Mary the glorification of her body was anticipated by a special privilege.
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This is a dualist approach. From Kreeft:
No empirical psychologist can be a dualist; the evidence for psychosomatic unity is overwhelming. No pervasive feature of either body or soul is insulated from the other; every sound in the soul echoes in the body, and every sound in the body echoes in the soul. Let the rejection of dualism be Premise One of our argument.
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The soul is not just a spirit inside a body, it is the form of the body.

Also, it does little good to compare our soul to angels, as a human soul and an angel are two very distinct entities.
 
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I agree with him here.

Masculinity and femininity go beyond being male and female.
 
Sarcelle said:
Masculinity and femininity go beyond being male and female.
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Not for sure I understand your meaning. I would say that being male /female is the same as our gender, so our souls are male or female just as our bodies are. Masculinity/femininity are the traits associated with being male or female. But this is likely just a semantical confusion between the two of us.
 
Masculinity and femininity refer to gender which encompasses biological sex but is not limited to it.

If you think in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese or any of the Latin based languages, nouns can be either feminine or masculine. English does not do that so it’s unsurprising if English speakers fail to grasp the distinction.

For example, train in Spanish is El tren which is masculine but of course you and I both know trains aren’t male.

Locomotives are referred to as la locomotora which is feminine but we also know that locomotives aren’t female.

Take for example cities or ships which are referred to in the feminine but we also know cities and ships aren’t female.
 
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Sarcelle said:
Masculinity and femininity refer to gender which encompasses biological sex but is not limited to it
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Ok, I underdtand what you are saying. Then there can still be confusion in your original statement. With regard to the issue of the thread, being male/female is also not just part of our biological sex, it is also part of our soul.
 
A soul can be feminine or masculine.

However being male and female is a biological attribute and refers only to the material world while masculine and feminine are the archetypes which apply in both natural and supernatural worlds.
 
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