Who is Yahweh יהוה?

[ViaCrucis]

So then should the language referring to God just be God and not using any gender unless referring to Christ? So prayers being more like "Thank you God for your Godness and your blessings bestowed on us all?" Because even still we use the "Father" aspect, but really God is just God= the Beautiful Unfathomable.

We call God "Father" not because it is an "aspect" of God, but because of the relationship between the Father and the Son. Jesus communicated to us that God is His Father, it speaks to the Father as the Son's Origin--His eternal Origin, since there was never a time when the Son was not. As such "Father" is what we use to refer to the One from whom the Son is eternally begotten, because this is how Jesus spoke of Him.

But it would be incorrect to say that the Father is "male", as though God has chromosomes or sex organs or any such things; God is neither male nor female; and likewise human beings, both male and female, are created in God's image and likeness. But we still call Him Father, because he is the Father of Jesus Christ, and in Christ He has become our Father also by adoption, by grace.

As such it is important to retain the traditional understanding of the Trinity and the personal revelation of God in and through Jesus, and that is why the Church insists on certain ways of speaking about God; and simultaneously not falling into false ideas about God, such as thinking of God as though God were a creature--of which male-ness and female-ness are characteristic; creatures are male and female because sexual reproduction involves two kinds of gametes coming together to produce new offspring. God is uncreated, He is the Uncreated Creator, and thus "sex" is not applicable to God in God's Essence; the only exception is Christ because Christ is both God and man. Since He is human, He does have sex, He is a human male. But the Divine Essence is sexless and genderless, it is unfathomable, incomprehensible, and ineffable.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Radrook]

Yahweh is the one Jesus calls his heavenly Father.

Matthew 6:9 ►
"This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

Matthew 26:39 ►
New International Version
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."

Luke 23:34 ►
New International Version
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

BTW
Not only does God refer to himself as male but our Savior Jesus was born a male as well and the first human he created was male.

 

[All4Christ]

We call God "Father" not because it is an "aspect" of God, but because of the relationship between the Father and the Son. Jesus communicated to us that God is His Father, it speaks to the Father as the Son's Origin--His eternal Origin, since there was never a time when the Son was not. As such "Father" is what we use to refer to the One from whom the Son is eternally begotten, because this is how Jesus spoke of Him.

But it would be incorrect to say that the Father is "male", as though God has chromosomes or sex organs or any such things; God is neither male nor female; and likewise human beings, both male and female, are created in God's image and likeness. But we still call Him Father, because he is the Father of Jesus Christ, and in Christ He has become our Father also by adoption, by grace.

As such it is important to retain the traditional understanding of the Trinity and the personal revelation of God in and through Jesus, and that is why the Church insists on certain ways of speaking about God; and simultaneously not falling into false ideas about God, such as thinking of God as though God were a creature--of which male-ness and female-ness are characteristic; creatures are male and female because sexual reproduction involves two kinds of gametes coming together to produce new offspring. God is uncreated, He is the Uncreated Creator, and thus "sex" is not applicable to God in God's Essence; the only exception is Christ because Christ is both God and man. Since He is human, He does have sex, He is a human male. But the Divine Essence is sexless and genderless, it is unfathomable, incomprehensible, and ineffable.

-CryptoLutheran

Agreed. One interesting aspect I read about in Orthodoxy is Holy Sophia - Holy Wisdom, or the Holy Spirit. His isn't dogma, but the Holy Spirit is the one person of the Trinity where some say "she" in discussion / writings. Consider Proverbs 4:6-7 and Proverbs 8:1 .

Sergius Bulgakov has some writings and beliefs that were condemned, but his writings on this are very interesting.

We even have some icons of Sophia - and some churches (Hagia Sophia). Sadly, some modern churches (not Orthodox) have taken this concept and started to pray the Lord's Prayer to God the Mother, pray the rosary to Holy Sophia, etc. We do not adhere to that language for the reasons you listed above.

 

[Radrook]

God is God.

We define gender by sexual organs, I doubt God has any, because he has no need to.

Is need the only thing that we can assume motivates God?

 

[Wolfe]

Is need the only thing that we can assume motivates God?

Gender isn't motivation.

 

[Radrook]

Gender isn't motivation.

People are motivated to choose gender. So what prevents the creator from doing likewise?

 

[Wolfe]

People are motivated to choose gender. So what prevents the creator from doing likewise?

What makes you so inclined that he did?

 

[Radrook]

What makes you so inclined that he did?

I never claimed that he did and neither am I particularly inclined to prefer that he did. It is merely a possibility that I see no reason to be so up tight about. Why are you so inclined to feel that he didn't? Isn't Jesus God according to your preferred view and didn't Jesus have male genitals.

 

[Mediakira]

It says in the most Scriptures that God is a male. He's called the Heavenly Father.