Is God male, female or neither (the POLL version)

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There is a thread on this but I wanted to make a poll and see what people think
 
Define male and female. God lacks a body and this genitalia thus the definition matters
 
Dakota_Roberts said:
Define male and female. God lacks a body and this genitalia thus the definition matters
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Transcendent or Immanent. By this it would seem to ask if God is the same as the world in being immanent or separate from the world as in transcendence. By telling us He is Father, God is indicating His transcendence. A better poll would be to ask why one fails to accept this image of Father.
 
God is not male or female, but He is masculine. I would say that He is more masculine than any man. He is masculine because He is the source of all creation. He is not “mother earth”, but is the Father and He pours His graces outward. In regards to receiving scantifying grace, even men take a receptive role to God’s grace. Receptivity is specificially a feminine trait and as such even with men in the Church and men as priests and what not, the Church is still the BRIDE of Christ and referred to as “she”.

If God were to be referred to as “she” this would lead to seeing God in more of a panthesitic sense.
 
I voted “neither”, but obviously Christ is God and Christ is a man. I’m taking the question as referring to the Divine Nature shared by the Trinity, and obviously it is neither male nor female. I would hesitate to even call it “masculine” as the qualities we call masculine and feminine are both from God and reflect God.

Peace and God bless!
 
twoangels said:
God is not male or female, but He is masculine. I would say that He is more masculine than any man. He is masculine because He is the source of all creation. He is not “mother earth”, but is the Father and He pours His graces outward. In regards to receiving scantifying grace, even men take a receptive role to God’s grace. Receptivity is specificially a feminine trait and as such even with men in the Church and men as priests and what not, the Church is still the BRIDE of Christ and referred to as “she”.

If God were to be referred to as “she” this would lead to seeing God in more of a panthesitic sense.
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This is the proper context for voting neither.
 
It seems to me God has manifested Himself with the marks of a masculine male as evidence by the following observations:

When Jesus teaches us to pray He says, “Our FATHER”, Father is a male.

When Mary conceived it was by the Holy Spirit (a conception at least in role from a male partner to a female partner)

Jesus in human nature is a male.

During the exodus it was the sacrifice of a male lamb that foreshadowed the coming of Jesus, a God with both a human and divine nature.

God has manifested Himself with male language and presentation. As such, I vote male.
 
Ghosty said:
I voted “neither”, but obviously Christ is God and Christ is a man. I’m taking the question as referring to the Divine Nature shared by the Trinity, and obviously it is neither male nor female. I would hesitate to even call it “masculine” as the qualities we call masculine and feminine are both from God and reflect God.

Peace and God bless!
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A great answer.👍
 
"It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him"… **Joseph Joubert ** 🙂
 
I voted both. I believe that God embodies the characteristics of both masculinity and femininity (ie. protecting/defending, as well as nurturing). plus, since we’re also made in His image and likeness, the feminine principles must be in there somewhere. It’s something that transcends sexuality based solely on what genitals a person has, since God does not have a body as we do.

However, relative to humans, God as we known Him is more like a man protecting and providing for his wife, so thus, the use of the masculine pronouns.
 
God is Spirit and therefor is neither a man nor a woman.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
However, God has chosen to reveal Himself, primarily, as a masculine figure. Plus, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel wouldn’t look nearly as cool without God’s flowing beard. 🙂
 
Jesus was a male but he adopted too caractheristics that we would associate to females… the most important: the tenderness. He was certainly a Protector (how also women are) and he was certainly a Saviour (like men are) but he went towards Salvation through his tenderness… sacrifising Himself…

I think that both masculinity and femininity have an importance that has been exaggerated by the modern culture. It is not so important. But many strongly logics make us to think that Gofd was neither male nor female.

The cosmogonic argument: God has created the human being and gave them caractheristics from Him. So nothing that either a man or a woman have is something that God does not have.
It has a mathematic basis (it is not mathematic but it that use that which is more convincing). From his domain was born the image of the Human Being (both domain and image are concepts of the mathematic functions). The Genesis tells that

“God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.” (Gn 1, 27)

Femininity cannot come from something other than Him.

Men generally have not femininity, tenderness is strange in us (but not bad), so God could not be a male.
 
Sex is an earthly state for procreation which in my belief could be irrelevant in the next life - there is no point to sexes in heaven as there is no procreation as there is on earth. When you make your marriage vow its until death and your free of that commitment at death as in the passage we become as angel. Jesus was questioned about marriage in a trick question - look up the passage and see - there is no marriage in heaven - your are in spiritual form so I don’t think gender comes into play or serves any purpose - its just hard to imagine it as a human being.Is gender of the flesh or of the spirit?
 
PeterGStanley said:
Sex is an earthly state for procreation which in my belief could be irrelevant in the next life - there is no point to sexes in heaven as there is no procreation as there is on earth. When you make your marriage vow its until death and your free of that commitment at death as in the passage we become as angel. Jesus was questioned about marriage in a trick question - look up the passage and see - there is no marriage in heaven - your are in spiritual form so I don’t think gender comes into play or serves any purpose - its just hard to imagine it as a human being.Is gender of the flesh or of the spirit?
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Good post. Yes, Christ did say that when asked about the widower who remarried.
 
God created Man in His image. In the divine image He created him. Male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27.

So there is your answer. The divine image is both. It’s male and female. And throughout the Scriptures we see both of those divine attributes. Jesus called the Creator Godhead His Father as should we, but Scripture also tells us the image of God is both male and female. A mystery I know. And I certainly don’t understand it But that is my read of it. I vote both.
 
Earnest_Bunbury said:
Transcendent or Immanent. By this it would seem to ask if God is the same as the world in being immanent or separate from the world as in transcendence. By telling us He is Father, God is indicating His transcendence. A better poll would be to ask why one fails to accept this image of Father.
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👍 Indeed; but I voted neither. God represents the image of a Father in scripture to help the limits of human intellect comprehend the some of the qualities of God between Him and us. As someone mentioned already in this thread, God is not bound by our human gender of the flesh of being male and female that He created.

On a human level a Father being male is traditionally the head of his household.
God representing a Father figure in the human capacity of understanding makes God the Father the Head of our life and soul in the unfathomable Mystery of the Holy Trinity.
 
followingtheway said:
There is a thread on this but I wanted to make a poll and see what people think
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If you are speaking of the Christian God in general, and the Catholic conception of God in particular, I would say that yes God is male (or at least masculine).

Here’s the context:
Jesus Christ, who is both Man and God was a human male.
God is often referred to as Father (by Jesus among others).
God is often depicted with masculine imaginary and terms (such as king, lord, master, etc.)

Of course my personal perspective is that warlike Jewish patriarchs would be unlikely to *discover/learn of *a supreme creator god that so resembled them (I don’t believe in those kind of coincidences:rolleyes:). Them simply creating a god in their own image seems far more likely to me.
 
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