Are there any Monotheists that believe that God is female?

[Breathe]

Śākta Hinduism, as Vinayaka mentioned.

And, I suppose, some smaller religious groups. Dianic Wicca can sometimes be monotheistic, from what I've been told.

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

Krishna/Vishnu (one and the same)

I should have mentioned, Purusha and Shakti are being used as titles, not names.
So for example, Krishna or Vishnu is Purusha and Radha or Laxmi is Shakti.

I thought that Brahman was the main god according to your religion. LOL.

 

[Madhuri]

I thought that Brahman was the main god according to your religion. LOL.

Nope. Brahman is considered by some traditions to actually be God (assuming that God is only impersonal). But other traditions like mine consider Brahman to be an aspect of God. And that aspect is All-pervading Conciousness.

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

Nope. Brahman is considered by some traditions to actually be God (assuming that God is only impersonal). But other traditions like mine consider Brahman to be an aspect of God. And that aspect is All-pervading Conciousness.

Then who is god? Is it Krishna?

 

[Breathe]

Then who is god? Is it Krishna?

Depends on the Hindu's school.

It can be Kṛṣṇa/Viṣṇu, Śiva, or Śakti - depending on whether they are a Vaiṣṇava, Śaiva, or a Śakta respectively.

However, it's worth noting that Viṣ̣nu and Śiva are often conflated with one and the same person; this is usually called as Harihara.

Left side: Viṣṇu
Right side: Śiva

There is even the image of Ardhanārīśvara - Śiva and Śakti conflated as the same.

Worth noting that not everyone sees Viṣṇu, Śiva and Śakti as one and the same though, depending on one's lineage and literal beliefs, they can be different. Hinduism is pretty diverse after all.

 

[Willamena]

Are there any Monotheists that believe that God is female? I do not believe this, but I am curious to see who does and why?

In my monotheism, the image of "God" can be either male or female --the male moniker is comfortable linguistically (rolls off the tongue), but female is more significant symbolically. In the dualistic symbolism, "Man" (Adam) is consciousness in relation to other things. He is the creative force: the one (singular) that assigns names to things, that imposes its capacity for meaning on things, and that is the assertive partner in the marriage that is "The Creation." "God" is the passive partner, Divine Consciousness, the One (whole) progenitor of the reality of all things for which and on which "Man" can do his merry, sometimes brutal, assignations. Together, bound in marriage, consciousness and Divine Consciousness are two sides of the same coin: reality.

 

[Madhuri]

Then who is god? Is it Krishna?

Yes. I believe so. And Brahman is His consciousness. And Shakti is His energy.
Thus God has a male, female, and other aspect.

 

[ManTimeForgot]

Male/female is for organic lifeforms that sexually reproduce, so what use would an omnimax being have with dangly bits? It's rather wacky to try and anthropomorphize the concept of god.

Seconded.

MTF

 

[Dena]

Male/female is for organic lifeforms that sexually reproduce, so what use would an omnimax being have with dangly bits? It's rather wacky to try and anthropomorphize the concept of god.

Yes, I'd agree that making God into something that can be male or female seems odd to me.

 

[Madhuri]

Yes, I'd agree that making God into something that can be male or female seems odd to me.

What if a gender in a spiritual context is a little different to the material context? What if all living things in nature are modeled from the male and female energies of divinity? Is that still a weird concept?

 

[Alceste]

I often use female pronouns for the monotheistic god concept partly because it is a convention among progressive writers to use "she" at least as often as "he" in gender neutral contexts, and mosts theists I know insist their god doesn't have any genitals that would determine its gender one way or the other.

I often wear a Gaia pendant, and to the extent that I have pantheistic leanings (a small extent) I perceive / relate to "god" (the living earth) as feminine.

 

[ManTimeForgot]

What if a gender in a spiritual context is a little different to the material context? What if all living things in nature are modeled from the male and female energies of divinity? Is that still a weird concept?

The nature of "female energy" versus "female sexuality" is something that needs discrimination. I am willing to grant that if deities had something intrinsic to them that created a reliable dichotomy, then that does indeed create a viable concept, but it is something that requires its own terminology.

That is unless you are trying to suggest that female sexuality is the result of "female energy" and not the X chromosome?

If you are not making a statement of origination, then calling the "energy" of the gods male or female is at best confusing and at worst evasive. One might suppose that if mortals could tap into "energy" and it had different "flavors" that one gender might have more success with one type of energy over the other. And it is in that case that it is confusing to refer to the "energy" males might be predisposed to tap into "male energy." It connotes that the energy is somehow sexual in nature; this is a causal inversion. Males are better able to tap into the energy because they are better suited to the energy, this is not males determining that they though the energy they chose was cooler and then claiming it as their own.

And if it is the case that we have no qualitative evidence about the specific "energies" then all saying that they are "male" and "female" accomplishes is to say that there are two different kinds but without the desire to explore what actually makes them different.

MTF

 

[ScottySatan]

Male/female is for organic lifeforms that sexually reproduce, so what use would an omnimax being have with dangly bits?

Gender is also for computer cables. In Spain, everything has a gender. But they're probably all sex fiends there. I bet they try to get their las cucharas y los tenedores to hacer sexo.

It's rather wacky to try and anthropomorphize the concept of god.

Aren't most gods anthropomorphic?

 

[Breathe]

Aren't most gods anthropomorphic?

Usually, yeah - but not all.

It's easier for people to understand deities if they anthromorphise them though.

 

[Madhuri]

The nature of "female energy" versus "female sexuality" is something that needs discrimination. I am willing to grant that if deities had something intrinsic to them that created a reliable dichotomy, then that does indeed create a viable concept, but it is something that requires its own terminology.

According to my understanding, everything material is a reflection of the Spiritual. The nature of matter includes physical procreation methods and bodies, creation and destruction, birth and death, etc.
Spirit is different. What is 'male' and 'female' in Spirit is of a different nature. Sex organs and the physical body is a material version of a spiritual reality.

 

[9Westy9]

As a theist/ deist I'm well aware that assigning attributes to god without diveine inspiration is just wishful thinking. So ofc I answered idk.

 

[FearGod]

Are there any Monotheists that believe that God is female? I do not believe this, but I am curious to see who does and why?

God is a single entity which do exist for the eternity,god don't need to be of any gender,not human,not female,not male and nothing can be compared to him.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

God is a single entity which do exist for the eternity,god don't need to be of any gender,not human,not female,not male and nothing can be compared to him.

Or her.

 

[FearGod]

Or her.

Better choice,hirm or herm

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Can I ask how you are defining female and male?

Would a god have a reproduction system?