Is God Male?

[Guest yod]

then why don't we affirm that God is a Jew also and not a Gentile?

I have no problem with saying that

He was born jewish and was only temporarily dead so, yea, He is still jewish..

Christ, in regards to his human nature was male and Jewish, yes, but it's not like a Jewish male God was incarnated.

Messiah, in regards to his human nature "is" still male and jewish

If He is also God, then He is a jewish male God.

I see no problem with that.

His divinity never was male and Jewish and neither did it become so at the incarnation.

"Divinity" is by definition a non-human aspect.

However, if He is both God and man then there should be no problem saying He is God who humbled Himself to become a jewish male....coming for a Bride.

Hence He is a jewish-male God in every sense of the words.

Upon His return, He will still be male and jewish...and God.

Is it too hard for you to accept that "HE" is male or that HE is jewish?

The only earthly title He accepted was King of the Jews. He was born that, and this was the charge against Him at His death.

Was it someone else who rose from the dead....or the Queen of the Jews?

[firehill]

"Divinity" is by definition a non-human aspect.

However, if He is both God and man then there should be no problem saying He is God who humbled Himself to become a jewish male....coming for a Bride.

Hence He is a jewish-male God in every sense of the words.

Jewish-male in regards to his human nature and God in regards to his divine.

Upon His return, He will still be male and jewish...and God.

Is it too hard for you to accept that "HE" is male or that HE is jewish?

Silly, Yod. I repeat as I already stated above:

Christ, in regards to his human nature was male and Jewish, yes, but it's not like a Jewish male God was incarnated.

The only earthly title He accepted was King of the Jews. He was born that, and this was the charge against Him at His death.

Was it someone else who rose from the dead....or the Queen of the Jews?

He was King of Isreal at his resurrection.

[hupo]

I must say, I am shocked at the poll results so far that show how many believe God to have a gender and that God is male.

Absolutly !

This whole topic proves nothing about God.

It show so much about us though, doesn't it ?

Blessings

[Guest lnj]

My personal belief is God has female characteristics but I identify Him as Male.

As a "human' male? No, but a Spiritual being that has both qualities of male/female and of course more aspects to His makeup which we will see for ourselves one day.

[Arthur Durnan]

Who thunk this one up anyways? Hmm. Here we go boot-dropping again. The Creator-God is neither male nor female, nor any 'other type.' However when God does appear in Holy Writ, it's always without exception as a male. Angels, too, when they appear, are always identified as a "he," ie, being male. Which, of course, isn't all that earth-shattering in that every one of Jesus's chosen Apostles were indeed also male. HALP! Gender, gender, yes, but never second-stage gender-BENDER, puulleeze & thanx.

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[buckthesystem]

I voted for "gender neutral" because I believe that God is neither male nor female. God is spirit, not physical body. So of course God is not male or female, how can he be. In all speech and writing God is referred to as "he" simply for the sake of convenient speech, afterall it would be weird to refer to a living being as "it". "It" denotes an inanimate object.

In the english language we talk (or rather write) of "he" (did ...., is....., etc.) In French they also speak (or write) of God as the male gender (Le as apposed to La) but then their language assigns gender to many ininimate objects also. Their word for "student" is also said as male, but that doesn't mean that they have no female students. It is just the way the language is.

God doesn't have, or need, a physical body. He doesn't need to eat, sleep, work or procreate. Therefore there is no need of gender.

We see him as our "father". But that is to help us to understand something that as mere mortals we cannot understand. Hopefully we will when we finally die and dwell with God for real.

Jesus is always referred to as the "son of God". But that does not mean that God physically manifested as human and married Mary and literally fathered a son. The best explanation of how God could be both God and Jesus and also be omnipresent was the analogy of filling several glasses out of a common jug of water - one glass was Jesus and one was God etc.

I believe the angels are always depicted as male because that is what we, as mortals, expect to see. We just do not have the capacity to understand anything more complicated. So all these things are put in language that we can understand.

All will be revealed one day.

[GeneV]

Just a thought.....would anyone care to reconsider their vote? if they could.

[Guest lnj]

No, I remain firm!!

[Joshua-777]

Hi there WSB, I've been following your line of reasoning and actually quite agree with most of it.

However what I wanted to say here was how amused I am at your using so much reasoning for showing God need no reasons.

It reminds me of my thinking process which used to drive me nuts!

Doesn't it make you "blow a fuse" sometimes?

God dealt with it, as one day He asked me: "Why don't you live your life rather than explain it"

He sure hit the nail on the head, for me!!

May God bless you, for no reason

"Why don't you live your life rather than explain it"

Thats an awesome quote.

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

Just a thought.....would anyone care to reconsider their vote? if they could.

Nope. My vote stays the same.

God is Spirit, and Spirit is neither male or female, therefore God is neither male or female.