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@Furious_Love
This topic is not new but is more talked about than in previous years, the RCC is probably mainly to blame for this belief, but looking at the present world where two woman living together call one the husband and two men living together one is the wife it is not surprising people are mixed up.
Back to God, scripture refers to God as masculine, though God is spirit, but the Father and the Son are referred to as masculine and as we know Jesus was a man, born of Mary by the Power of the Holy Spirit.
A lot of ideas come from false teaching, here is a common one, God shows his feminine side,
Matthew 23:37 (NKJV)
37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!
How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
This does not refer to God's feminine side as some think, He is giving us an example, they miss the word 'as'. Jesus used, 'what we see' examples all the time.
Wisdom when referred to in the Bible is often referred to as a feminine side,
Proverbs 1:20 (NKJV)
20 Wisdom calls aloud outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
Proverbs 8:11 (NKJV)
11 For wisdom
is better than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be
compared with her.
In the NT we are told Jesus is the wisdom of God
1 Corinthians 1:24 (NKJV)
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Let us go back to Genesis
Genesis 1:26-27 (NKJV)
26 Then God said, "
Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27
So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him; (then male and female are added) male and female He created them.
God, in the person of Jesus Christ, was born man, and desires to draw us into a relationship with him.
God is masculine throughout scripture, to think of Him as anything else is not true with scripture. So why do some get confused? Because they look at God in earthly terms not God's terms, they try fit God into there views as experienced on earth.
God is Spirit, The Father and the Son are male, the spirit of God is also male.
God created man in His image, male image. God created woman from the rib of man, therefore in His image he created them.
He created woman to be a companion to man, to be a wife for man, to go forth and multiply, that is how God created man and woman.
God doesn't need to multiply, the God-head is complete.
Only humans, animals, birds and fish, plus creepy crawly things, everything has a purpose on earth, can multiply.
God is referred to in masculine terms in the Bible really has only one answer:
This is the way God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. God is never described with sexual characteristics in the Scriptures, but He does consistently describe Himself in the masculine gender.
