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We see everything backwards. Male and female are hardly the point. Masculine and feminine are more to the point, but even that we don't understand.
While it can be argued that God, like everything else in most languages, is referred to by the generic masculine, I don't think that is all there is to it. God, to my thinking, is decidedly masculine --and by that I don't mean lacking feminine qualities. He just comes across to me that way. But no he is not male. We males are masculine, though not nearly so much as he is.
Further, there are many references to the interaction of God with Humanity --first with Israel, to whom he was "husband", and such things as Song of Solomon; also, Christ and his Bride. There is no end to the ways the work of God for himself and for us is masculine, to my mind at least.
roles of father, husband and leader are not related to sex or gender in scripture when discussing God. What is Masculine and feminine are culturally determined and completely subjective. In some cultures it’s masculine to wear jewelry in others it is not. God is objectively who he is, while some cultures apply masculine or feminine tags to certain attributes of God, it’s irrelevant to who And what God is. And God is not male or female.
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