If God is a he, how could he be?

[Sectio Aurea]

I mean, if God has a gender, would that not suggest he/she is a product of sexual reproduction or possibly just mere concept of human imagination maybe?
Why is the Christian God a male?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I mean, if God has a gender, would that not suggest he/she is a product of sexual reproduction or possibly just mere concept of human imagination maybe?
Why is the Christian God a male?

Because the religion was invented in a patriarchal society, and like all religions it conforms to how the culture's views itself - is it any wonder the Jews created a religion wherein they were the chosen people, where the male clergy created a male deity?

 

[Jro]

He seems to be able to sexually reproduce anyway.

 

[Sectio Aurea]

He seems to be able to sexually reproduce anyway.

Would you mind explaining this more please?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Would you mind explaining this more please?

God is the father, Mary is the mother, Jesus is the son - that's sexual reproduction! And it's not as if God was impregnated by the seed of Monty (implying God is female), but rather God impregnated Mary (implying God is male).

Or maybe he's like Mystique - he can morph into a woman to be impregnated, or morph into a man to impregnate?

 

[Jro]

Would you mind explaining this more please?

God is the father, Mary is the mother, Jesus is the son - that's sexual reproduction! And it's not as if God was impregnated by the seed of Monty (implying God is female), but rather God impregnated Mary (implying God is male).

Or maybe he's like Mystique - he can morph into a woman to be impregnated, or morph into a man to impregnate?

Yeah pretty much this. Question - does that mean god has coveted his neighbor's wife? Doesn't that make him like... blow up or something?

 

[juvenissun]

I mean, if God has a gender, would that not suggest he/she is a product of sexual reproduction or possibly just mere concept of human imagination maybe?
Why is the Christian God a male?

God is communicating with human. Among humans, male was (and still is) the authority. God uses a language which human can understand.

That is why. Very simple logic.

 

[Received]

I don't see why God being a male or female is to be taken literally. He ain't got the parts, ergo the question doesn't apply.

But yeah, gender can (maybe) transcend biology, as in there are "female" parts to God (care, compassion), and "male" parts (justice). Eckhart (who rocks) put it this way:

God is not only a Father of all good things, as being their First Cause and Creator, but He is also their Mother, since He remains with the creatures which have from Him their being and existence, and maintains them continually in their being. If God did not abide with and in the creatures, they must necessarily have fallen back, so soon as they were created, into the nothingness out of which they were created.​

 

[Jro]

I don't see why God being a male or female is to be taken literally. He ain't got the parts, ergo the question doesn't apply.

But yeah, gender can (maybe) transcend biology, as in there are "female" parts to God (care, compassion), and "male" parts (justice). Eckhart (who rocks) put it this way:

God is not only a Father of all good things, as being their First Cause and Creator, but He is also their Mother, since He remains with the creatures which have from Him their being and existence, and maintains them continually in their being. If God did not abide with and in the creatures, they must necessarily have fallen back, so soon as they were created, into the nothingness out of which they were created.​

So could he have Jesus with a dude instead? I mean, that would be chill right?

 

[Paradoxum]

I doubt people think he is male like a human can be male. Still, many Christians don't like it if you call God 'she'.

 

[Received]

So could he have Jesus with a dude instead? I mean, that would be chill right?

That would be too ghey, amiright?