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| Topic Started: May 11 2008, 07:46 PM (47 Views) | |
| Stace | May 11 2008, 07:46 PM Post #1 |
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6Q Is it theologically correct to say that "God has no gender" as both male and female are made in His image? What then accounts for the use of masculine words such as the "Father," and Jesus was a man etc.? It would be only partially correct and largely incorrect. Firstly, gender in the spirit world does not have anything to do with biological reproductive organs like on the physical earth. Gender is the quality of the spirits - the feminine gender showing more light in the love and compassion areas, and the masculine gender showing more light in the wisdom and strength areas. Try to think of spiritual gender as different lights and attributes rather than to physical form. Understanding this, since God is the creator of all spirits, it would be theological sound to understand that the concepts and variations of lights and attributes are first found within Him. Thus in a sense (thinking spiritually and not carnally) God encompasses all concepts of masculine and feminine plus a whole other concepts of BEING which are to magnificent to be revealed to our small finite minds now (Let us assume for the time being that these concepts within God is 0.000000000000000001% X a googolplex of His powerful attribute and makeup). The word PERSON is even too small for Him. At the moment, it is our human vocabulary that is limited in expressing the likeness of God and not God Himself being limited. We still need to use the words 'Father' etc mainly because we do not have any other human vocabulary or figure of speech or analogy to describe who He is. Since Jesus uses it, we can accept the fact that it is the best vocabulary that we have at the moment. In simple answer to your question, God would thus be all neutral, all masculine and all feminine plus a whole googolplex of other attributes which we do not understand - He encompasses the best and the highest of all our concepts. Another illustration is this, when the body of Christ is referred to as the bride of Christ, it does not mean that we are all females; it just means that in terms of our relationship with Him, it is as loving and special as a bride with the bridegroom. |
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