Is God Male?

[Floatingaxe]

It's Jesus Christ who gets the Church as Bride. Jesus is the real "male" person of the trinity.

Is he separate from the rest of the Trinity?

Actually it says, "the Spirit and the Bride say, Come."

All parts of the trinity are One, yet distinct.

[Ovedya]

It's Jesus Christ who gets the Church as Bride. Jesus is the real "male" person of the trinity.

Is he separate from the rest of the Trinity?

Actually it says, "the Spirit and the Bride say, Come."

All parts of the trinity are One, yet distinct.

So then....Only Jesus is male? The other two are gender-neutral.

[Floatingaxe]

It's Jesus Christ who gets the Church as Bride. Jesus is the real "male" person of the trinity.

Is he separate from the rest of the Trinity?

Actually it says, "the Spirit and the Bride say, Come."

All parts of the trinity are One, yet distinct.

So then....Only Jesus is male? The other two are gender-neutral.

Jesus is male in the flesh, of course. The Holy Spirit and the Father are Spirit.

[Floatingaxe]

Hi floatingaxe and all,

Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as "He", and really, Father is not the same as mother. God the Father generates His children by His Spirit. It is HIS Spirit, not another spirit that is female.

In Christ, there is no male or female. We are liberated from the bondage of gender through spiritual regeneration. We are born again of His Spirit: that makes us something Spiritual, not a new male or a new female....but a child of God.

Maybe I didn't explain it well enough but it all seems clear to me. Gender is not an issue once "regenerated".

Oh Lord now I have really put the cat among the pigeons, lol.

Love! EphesiansGal

It's all good!

[Floatingaxe]

'Male and female created He them'.

We are not in bondage to gender.

So, why the nonsense about heresy earlier, truster?

[Metropolitan]

On another day, I would have said, male ofcourse..whats the doubt

But then, its not as simple as I think it is...And still, I believe that when God deals with us, He comes down to our level, and relates to us just the way we would like think about Him...With such an argument, I think God has made it sufficiently known to us, that He resembles to the male gender!

The scriptures also tells us that God has/displays human emotions like anger, love, revenge etc, so even though God is spirit, He has indeed human attributes...I would love to think of him as my 'Father' in heaven

[Ovedya]

It's Jesus Christ who gets the Church as Bride. Jesus is the real "male" person of the trinity.

Is he separate from the rest of the Trinity?

Actually it says, "the Spirit and the Bride say, Come."

All parts of the trinity are One, yet distinct.

So then....Only Jesus is male? The other two are gender-neutral.

Jesus is male in the flesh, of course. The Holy Spirit and the Father are Spirit.

So did Jesus stop being male in resurrection? Again, you are thinking in terms of physical "body parts." Being male or female has more to do with just "body parts."

Why did God choose to be incarnated in the womb of Mary as a male and not a female? Was it just the toss of the dice?

[Scarletprayers]

There is no question that God is male. In Genesis, it tells us that God created Adam in his image, and later created Eve from Adam's rib. We also see God continually refered to as Father.

Ditto!

[hupo]

Thank you, WSB.

I'm going to interject something here for a moment.

In human terms we think of male/female largely in the context of physical makeup. I would suggest that "gender" has less to do with body parts than it does to relationships and the roles within those relationships.

So....If God is not a male how is it that He marries a woman - the Bride of Christ - at the end of the Bible?

You took the words out of my mouth Ovedya. God is beyond physical gender. (by the way that was a missed option in the vote questions)

what is male? what is female? apart of the physical I mean. When we know that we can answer the question "is God male or female".

IN the forum and human discussions anywhere, we refer to God as He out of the need to say SOMETHING. The general agreement is to use the male term for God. I tried using plural as it is written in Hebrew (Elohim) and people didn't understand what I was on about.

It would sound something like "God knows our hearts and THEY have a plan for us. In THIER plan there is room for all people as long as we recognize THEM as our saviour...." - For human beings to talk this way sounds a bit....off.....

Interesting topic, Ovedya. Thanks and blessings

[hupo]

Some recent threads inspired me this morning to pose the question, "Is God male?" Please answer the poll and include a reply to the thread. In your reply begin with how you answered, then explain in as many words as you want why you answered that way, and use Scripture to support of your answer. Then be prepared to giv an answer to others who respond to you.

Have fun!

Jesus was male and is Male. Jesus is God, so, simple answer.

The answer is only simple if you say so, otherwise it is very complex