Why a male supreme God?

[Deidre]

I bow down to ALL men, don't all women?
Every time I see a man, I run up and bow before him. lol

My idea of a god has no gender. But, since most religions stemmed from misogynists, it's not that outrageous to see why God would be considered male.

 

[ChristineES]

Not sure about all that.


"Our father in heaven"


Jesus was male and a deity by your accounts, and not just a 1/3 of god the father.

Women didn't have rights back in those days, something we should all keep in mind. If Jesus had been born in this day and age instead of back then (according to my faith), it might have been different, and he probably would have had female apostles, too. Jesus would have had to have been male 2,000 years ago, since no one would have listened to a woman even as few as 100 years ago, much less 2,000
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[outhouse]

and he probably would have had female apostles,

You know he had early female followers that played a very important role in the beginning of he early movement, for the first hundreds years in the diaspora women played a very important role of heading this aspect of the household for the gatherings in Pater Familias.

It was later hidden in religious dogma.


But Jesus was a man, no getting around that one, no matter how many women were involved, they followed Jesus the man and Christ.

Angelous is really sharp on all this .

 

[Desert Snake]

It's backward because it goes against what we plainly observe in nature - that all life comes from the female, including the male.

G-d is self created. The creation process is not necessarily exactly what one might observe casually. You are ascribing your own understanding of things, then putting it into the context of a creation story that you don't believe in. Your criticism is based from a personal standpoint, though, it follows a personal understanding etc.,but....this is not applicable to the Biblical narrative.

 

[MD]

I bow down to ALL men, don't all women?
Every time I see a man, I run up and bow before him. lol

Well that's the spirit

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I bow down to ALL men, don't all women?
Every time I see a man, I run up and bow before him. lol

My idea of a god has no gender. But, since most religions stemmed from misogynists, it's not that outrageous to see why God would be considered male.

Well, that's a coincidence since, as I worship Devi, I worship women as Her foremost manifestation.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

G-d is self created. The creation process is not necessarily exactly what one might observe casually. You are ascribing your own understanding of things, then putting it into the context of a creation story that you don't believe in. Your criticism is based from a personal standpoint, though, it follows a personal understanding etc.,but....this is not applicable to the Biblical narrative.

Because the Biblical narrative makes no sense.

 

[Chakra]

In my sampradaya God is male, female, and neither.

 

[Vinayaka]

In my sampradaya God is male, female, and neither.

In mine, God is portrayed as male, female, or neither, but anyone 'in the know' knows it's actually neither. I assume that beyond time, form and space also means beyond gender.

 

[JustCallMeNick]

I assume when Constantine took over and made Christianity the government's main faith and since he was in power, he made "God" a He.
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I'm hardly here to defend Constantine, but I just have to say, this is most definitely incorrect. The idea that the Judeo-Christian God is male (or at least spoken of that way) dates back long before the Emperor "converted" to Christianity.

 

[It's Ya Girl Jesus' Wife]

God created man in His image. I would rather serve a masculine God anyway. Even though I am a woman, I prefer a masculine God. A feminine god is repulsive.

Jesus is my Husband.

 

[psychoslice]

God created man in His image. I would rather serve a masculine God anyway. Even though I am a woman, I prefer a masculine God. A feminine god is repulsive.

Jesus is my Husband.

Yes that's what its all about, its what it means to you personally, and we all should have a personal relationship with God, whatever god means to you, not what second hand books tell you, that is my way of seeing God.

 

[Pegg]

To those who worship a male supreme deity - why? What leads you to conclude that the Supreme Being is male or otherwise masculine? How do you arrive at the idea that the Creator is male? I don't see this in nature. It is the female who brings forth life in nature. The male's contribution is somewhat of an afterthought. Even fetuses start out female and only develop into males when the Y chromosome is introduced. The Bible, for instance, has this backward and has the woman being born from the male, as an afterthought when Adam couldn't find a suitable companion among the animals. How does this make any sense?

Is it only because your holy book presents your deity in masculine terms? Or did you come to this conclusion by yourself? Male supreme deities seem to be rather late in humanity's religious history, after all.

I see Jehovah as both masculine and feminine. But masculine is his most dominant quality. Thats why he is refereed to as a 'he' and not a 'she'
Feminine is not merely about giving birth. Feminine is submissive and God does not express himself in submissive way (unlike Jesus who does express himself as being in submission for example)....he is one who takes the lead in action and in directing others because he is first and foremost, masculine.

 

[Deidre]

Well, that's a coincidence since, as I worship Devi, I worship women as Her foremost manifestation.

there needs to be an UNLIKE feature

 

[Deidre]

Well that's the spirit

lol!

 

[Unveiled Artist]

That kind of goes into women and feminism. Why are women seen as submissive? I never had a relationship or any type of ship to where I felt submissive to a male. Women can be just as authoritative as men. So, seeing God as female wouldn't be far off if one sees female as authority (as in some countries do see women as head of household even though the male supports everyone financially).

I see Jehovah as both masculine and feminine. But masculine is his most dominant quality. Thats why he is refereed to as a 'he' and not a 'she'
Feminine is not merely about giving birth. Feminine is submissive and God does not express himself in submissive way (unlike Jesus who does express himself as being in submission for example)....he is one who takes the lead in action and in directing others because he is first and foremost, masculine.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

there needs to be an UNLIKE feature

Haha. You can first "like" it and then fool them and press unlike.

 

[Deidre]

Haha. You can first "like" it and then fool them and press unlike.

after I'm done bowing before him since he is male, i might do that.

 

[amorphous_constellation]

The Bible, for instance, has this backward and has the woman being born from the male, as an afterthought when Adam couldn't find a suitable companion among the animals. How does this make any sense?

Yeah, it does seem kind of funny that way, that the first human could reproduce alone and was a male in a place like the garden of eden, an earthy type of place one would seem to associate more with ideas of mother goddesses and femininity.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

In mine, God is portrayed as male, female, or neither, but anyone 'in the know' knows it's actually neither. I assume that beyond time, form and space also means beyond gender.

Well, I believe that Divinity is transcendent and immanent so there's a reconciliation of the views.