Could God Be A Woman?
It's not accurate to view God as a woman, though the Bible does show God's feminine side, so to speak. Jesus once said...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and
stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing." (Matthew 23:37)
Also, God's wisdom in the Proverbs is personified as a female (e.g., Proverbs
1:20, 8:11, 9:1), yet we are told in the New Testament that Jesus is the Wisdom
of God (1Corinthians 1:24).
But, for the most part, God has chosen to reveal Himself in the Bible as having
a male personage. The Bible is inspired of God (2Timothy 3:16), and in it God is
always referred to as a "Him" or a "He." So God wanted
people to understand Him as a "Him" and a "He."
However, in Genesis chapter 1 we are told that man (mankind; as opposed to "a
man") is created in the image of God, both male and female...
And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male
and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)
Therefore, we should not be surprised if God has both a
"maleness" and "femaleness" to Him, so both men and women can relate to God. God
could be considered as motherly (hen) and yet be called the Heavenly Father
(which is what Scripture often calls Him). God is both caring and nurturing, yet
powerful and strong.
Of course, God is so far beyond us, that He is certainly not a man or a woman.
Though we are made in His image, and reflect some of who God is, we as humans
certainly don't represent all that God is. Even if an artist were to paint a
self-portrait, the artist himself is far more than his art.
What is remarkable is that God has condescended to reveal himself to us. God
became a man, in the person of Jesus Christ and desires to draw us into a
relationship with him, which he made possible.
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On the one hand, God is neither male nor female, as we will be in the eternal state. The scripture says, Jesus said: We will be like the angels, neither male nor female, you don’t get married, and so forth. Problems are raised there. But why do we then call God the Father? God is not male, he’s neither male nor female, but we call Him the Father, not mother, because a mother gives birth out of herself, the Father does not. The Father God, He’s not the universe, He’s not part of the universe, it’s not an extension of Him, He created it out of nothing, and you can’t give a female presentation of that. ....Dave Hunt |