i heard in church satan is male

Sammy-San said:

why would God create angels with the ability to have offspring?

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I don't see a clear Biblical indication that he did.

Sammy-San said:

Or it just means he is a masculine looking (or personality) being?

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Probably that.

Sammy-San said:

If demons have no body, then he isnt that anymore.

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Not a physical body, anyway.

Sabertooth said:

There's always Jezebel...!

And here's a rebuttal to the OP...!

Devil With a Blue Dress On

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There is Ruth too.

Sketcher said:

Not a physical body, anyway.

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Some choose to take form. I have seen them.

Sammy-San said:

why would God create angels with the ability to have offspring?

Or it just means he is a masculine looking (or personality) being?

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Why do you apparently believe that a spirit being requires the possession of reproductive organs in order to be masculine in nature?

Sammy-San said:

then how was he male?

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God the Father is characteristically masculine in nature.

Sammy-San said:

Nobody has seen him.

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And you know that, how?

As far as I know, Satan is described in masculine terms. He is male in nature. That is according to scriptural authority.

Sammy-San said:

why would God create angels with the ability to have offspring?

Or it just means he is a masculine looking (or personality) being?

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The bible is written for humans not for angels and it actually doesn't give us a whole lot of information about what an angel is. We like to fill in the blanks with folklore (ie. Book of Enoch, Dante's Inferno) but this is irresponsible. Satan is not human and angels have no need for reproductive parts (Luke 20:34-36) so calling him a male is somewhat arbitrary. His ability to appear in various forms perhaps could have some weight but again we don't know because the bible is not a manual book on Angels.

DamianWarS said:

Satan is not human and angels have no need for reproductive parts (Luke 20:34-36) so calling him a male is somewhat arbitrary.

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As far as I know all NT pronouns used for Satan are masculine in gender. God Almighty Himself is masculine without reproductive organs.

We do not have to guess at the gender of angelic beings including Satan.

AACJ said:

As far as I know all NT pronouns used for Satan are masculine in gender. God Almighty Himself is masculine without reproductive organs.

We do not have to guess at the gender of angelic beings including Satan.

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God is spirit so immediately we know pronouns like "he" mean something else then how we use it. I don't know what is the make up of angels but using similar logic it is used in a different way than what we expect from the pronouns. I also don't see the pronoun informing us of the gender of angels but rather used for other reasons.

DamianWarS said:

God is spirit so immediately we know pronouns like "he" mean something else then how we use it.

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This is a claim, not an argument.

DamianWarS said:

I don't know what is the make up of angels but using similar logic...

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what logic?

DamianWarS said:

it is used in a different way than what we expect from the pronouns.

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I believe this is also a claim, not an argument.

If it is true that Scripture is fully inspired and true, then it is also true that God Almighty, who is Truth, would not inspire and use descriptive language pertaining to gender designation for spirits that is false.

God gave Adam language that necessarily included the concepts of male and female, which were and are real and inherent qualities/attributes. It does not follow that gender-specific designations for spirit beings mean something other than what is conveyed by God-given language simply because such designations are being used to describe spirits.

Sammy-San said:

why would God create angels with the ability to have offspring?

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First. God is spirit. Satan is spirit. Angels are spirit. Not male or female made in flesh with the ability to have offspring.