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[Propianotuner]

In recent weeks there has been some talk about God's gender. I pose one question:

Is God male, female of genderless?

God in His deity is sexless. His gender role is male and Jesus Christ's sex is male. The Lord has a human body just like ours, except it is a glorified body. There is no shame in His form and His having a sex does not make Him creaturely as we are, He is still the Creator.

Why does God have a gender? Because a gender is a role, not a sex. The genders correlate to the sexes but they are not the sexes. In His scriptures He must have used all of these masculine pronouns in order to indicate His dominant role. God is our Father in a far greater sense than our earthly fathers. 1st Corinthians and Ephesians, as well as other areas of scripture, teach that the real significance of the gender roles is how they help us as His beloved to understand our relationship with Him, the man and the woman being expected to exemplify both sides of the relationship, Christ and His Bride the Church, in order to glorify Him.

He could have molded our thinking in any way that He wished, and He chose to force our thinking about God as "our Father". The parameters were His to define, and He did. I trust Christ in His helping me understand the Father.

If His words were metaphor, that metaphor causes use to see God as Father.

I hope so.

Thank you thatbrian, the faith you display here is beautiful to see. I hope that maybe my idea of the differences between gender and sex, and how the gender roles demonstrate the nature of our relationship, are helpful and bring you closer to Him.

 

[Razare]

God is not our mother as Christians.

Jerusalem is our mother.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. - Galatians 4:26

This means every Christian was born from above, not below.

 

[daughterofthemosthigh7]

Jesus is Lord, that much i do know for sure!!!

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

God is not our mother as Christians.

Jerusalem is our mother.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. - Galatians 4:26

This means every Christian was born from above, not below.

Well you know that isn't literally true, merely a nice figure of speech. Literally, Jerusalem simply has a role in the origin of Christianity.

 

[Razare]

Well you know that isn't literally true, merely a nice figure of speech. Literally, Jerusalem simply has a role in the origin of Christianity.

It's literally true. God my Father, is my literal father. My natural man Father, he birthed a boy God created, but this boy was subject to the kingdom of satan until he chose to give his life to Jesus Christ 3 years ago.

A kingdom transfer occurred, a fatherhood transfer occurred.

God almighty came to me in a vision and said, "You are my child."

So when God reveals in scripture that Jerusalem above is my mother, which is the womb by which I was born, then it is so. When I left the kingdom of natural men, by dying in Christ and being raised to new life, I no longer have the motherhood of my Earthly mother in a spiritual sense. Spiritual truth is literal truth, always.

Spiritual is Literal in scripture, and is reality itself. That we do not see literal spiritual reality (not all of us), does not mean it is not real. It is more real than what we see.

PS - Also note it is talking about Jerusalem in heaven, not the one that dwells on Earth. Paul makes that clear in that passage in Galatians, he's referring to New Jerusalem that comes down from heaven in Revelation.

This is where God built my mansion before the world was created. This is where God thought about me and had plans for my life, before he breathed life into Adam.

I was born from above, brother.

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

It's literally true. God my Father, is my literal father. My natural man Father, he birthed a boy God created, but this boy was subject to the kingdom of satan until he chose to give his life to Jesus Christ 3 years ago.

A kingdom transfer occurred, a fatherhood transfer occurred.

God almighty came to me in a vision and said, "You are my child."

So when God reveals in scripture that Jerusalem above is my mother, which is the womb by which I was born, then it is so. When I left the kingdom of natural men, by dying in Christ and being raised to new life, I no longer have the motherhood of my Earthly mother in a spiritual sense. Spiritual truth is literal truth, always.

Spiritual is Literal in scripture, and is reality itself. That we do not see literal spiritual reality (not all of us), does not mean it is not real. It is more real than what we see.

PS - Also note it is talking about Jerusalem in heaven, not the one that dwells on Earth. Paul makes that clear in that passage in Galatians, he's referring to New Jerusalem that comes down from heaven in Revelation.

This is where God built my mansion before the world was created. This is where God thought about me and had plans for my life, before he breathed life into Adam.

I was born from above, brother.

Please be assured I respect your sincerity.