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Does God Have Gender?

To answer this 1st we go to Christian Theology An introduction chapter 9—The doctrine of God. Is God male ? Both new and old Testaments use male language about God. The Greek word theos is unquestionably masculine, and most of the analogies used for God throughout scripture- such as father, king, and shepherd are male. Does this mean God is male? ( McGrath 268-269 )

To speak of God as father is to say that the father in ancient Isreal allows us insights into the nature of God. It is not to say that God is a male human being. ( McGrath 266 )

Neither male nor female sexuality is to be attributed to God, for sexuality is an attribute of the created order, which cannot be assumed to correspond directly to any such polarity within the creator God. ( McGrath 266). I am confused however I was brought up with religion in my life and through the Christian religion I learned that God was considered a Male human being and this was why all attributes to him were using male terminology throughout the Bible. However the same belief leaves others to believe that God is both Male and Female. Which confuses people even more do to the fact that no one born with both sexes is considered normal, but God had


What God does for us in the son is known, in theological vocabulary, as Christology. What God does in us through the spirit is known as Pneumatology. Christology and Pneumatolgy add up to theology. “Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, on the other hand, speak only of God’s relation to the world in time.

Now these verses stop short of an exact equation between God and mother, but their female imagery surely mirrors divine activity.

The reverend Doug Donley, University Baptist Church, Minneapolis writes:

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