Why does everyone figure God is Male?

Sorry folks but i gotta use this word:

Immaturity.

As Ive said before, there are Sunday School children who, without coaching understand that God is not 'A man' or 'A Woman' but instead something far transcending that.

Sadly, we see adults now actually trying to debate if a masculine context to the descriptive nouns really and 'physically' means God is a 'Male Gender'.

You know folks, if your going to be such extreme simplistic fundies about words - then know that the Bible descibes God as 'Speaking' and also 'Moving things'.
So he has an actual voice box and real arms too?

Come on people!

 

Then how do you account for...

Our father, who are art in heaven .....

The Lord God

Heavenly father

And so on.
Sounds like a masculine bias to me.


The more I think about it, the less sense that quote makes.

 

Oh, please. You're obviously male or you might understand the legitimacy of this question. I appreciate your answer in some ways, and you're right on many points, but try thinking of it from these angles: you're a female, and you have been taught God is male; you're a person of color and you've been taught that God is caucasian. and so on. the context does matter to some people. The Bible is full of male supremacy. It matters.

Yes, God is really so simple in concept that yes, a child can understand if they're taught right. He is above all our human description, but we all come from a different place in spiritual teachings. Please don't dismiss this question as "immaturity". It is a valid question. Go back to the original post on this thread and think again. There's no need to be condescending.

 

The gender of a generation

 

the following link will lead you to a book that offers a powerful explanation of the nature of religion and it's view of the gender of God.

http://www.thei.aust.com/books97/btlnffalling.html

essentially, as hunter/gatherers people worshipped the Goddess as they lived so close to Nature. Nature, the Mother, provided for people.

as civilization moved into an aggrarian mode of existence, people became able to collect and store food. the need to hunt became less, and at the same time there was the possibility to accumulate wealth in the form of stored food; like grains, etc.

with the possiblity of accummulation came a reason to stay by the hearth and not hunt anymore. war took place of the hunt. man took power over woman and the Goddess succumbed to the God.

according to the authors model as we enter into the Age of Aquarius the next shift will occur bringing us into the time of Goddess/God. the Union of the two aspects of divinity.

I thought it an excellent book, and in fact read it twice. I hope to read it again someday.

 

It's an assumption though. Based on some stone age "venus" statues (whose actual purpose is unknown) and a few primitive societies, ancient and modern, that worshipped a version of Earth Mother. But there are plenty of primitive societies through history that worshipped a male diety or dieties. If anything it was probably a more even split, animistic belief structure with both male and female spirits or gods, considering many primitive societies are reletively egaltarian and the sexes equal (though seperate in most cases, in the duties they perform).

As far as the Age of Aquarius...well, I don't buy the whole astrology thing, so I wouldn't give much creedence to the idea that since the stars are alligned in a new way, we will worship our human constructs differently.

 

Religion is incomplete with only a god, they are missing a goddess. How else do you think god could create so much?

 

most people think of god as a male because they fantacize about sucking him off....
as for me, i doubt the unrecognizeable mass of cells and protoplasm really has a specific gender

 

Theres god energy and goddess energy, its kinda one in the same but yet somehow different at the same time

 

Those are just two sides of the same duality which comes from the same Source, like all dualities do (black-white, good-evil, yes-no).

 

it is impossible to have one without the other.....the closest i've come to ever perceiving this duality is on shrooms. If you think about it the mushroom represents that duality well, you have the cap, the feminine part, and the stem, male part, and both are one to make a food that can enhance the understanding of that duality

 

brokenwingz425 - did you just call GOD a mushroom?

 

no, i am just saying the mushroom is just one of the myriad of manifestations of god

 

I think that when we apply our own sense of duality to the Infinite we're just projecting unnecessary restrictions on something that is beyond all earthly comparison.

Any attempt to label the Infinite falls short. Any attempt to divide or define is just a pitiful human attempt to comprehend the greatest Unknown.

I'm not selling mystics short, but as I understand it -- and maybe a mystic among us can speak on this -- in the mystical experience the ego fades until all is Oneness. But can a mystic convey this experience in truly telling words?

Biblical labels for God are difficult when separated and used apart. When we look at the most imporant names, such as the Tetragrammaton we get a fuller understanding.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=165&letter=T

And according to something else I just read, the future tense of "to be" as in ehyeh asher ehyeh is gender neutral.

 

god is beyond words

 

Well put.... Jesus is a guy... Jesus is God...

 

Why does everyone figure God is Male?


Because He has a penis.

 

I figure god is male because we had anal sex and then i gave him 4 blowjobs....oops that wasn't god, that was Jesus

 

All Is Relativeeee. Stop And See.

 

According to the history of religion, man initially thought the Higher Power that created him was female due to the fact that life came from women. Therefore, they believed in the Goddess and centered their lives around what we know today as Goddess religions.