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The gender of god
As far as I understand, it's more of a traditional part of the language to use masculine pronouns when referring to God, the Father and the Holy Spirit, anyway, than anything that pertains to a material aspect of God. When he was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man, Jesus was male. As for personality, He demonstrates things we would commonly refer to in our contemporary Western society as masculine, such as being our defender and the scourge of the wicked, and feminine, such as compassion and nurturing. At the end of the day, we're using the imperfect language of creatures to try to describe that which is beyond Creation.
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Most importantly God is love, the savior and creator of the world, He is as three but as one the only God. He is light, He is the only way, He is truth, He is merciful, He is just, He is righteous, He is the only one who is good, He is everything. God is the father of everyone and He is like a man but infinitely greater. His "gender" is God but He is like a man, men are made in His likeness, women are made in the likeness of men.
God the Father came to us in the form of Jesus Christ a man, He is the Son. God then sent the holy spirit which is God to help all who believe in the name of Jesus Christ and save them from God's wrath. God died for our sins, He loves every single on of us more than we could ever imagine.
Revelation 1:8 "“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”"
Psalm 147:5 "Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure."
1 John 4:16 "So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”"
Psalm 7:11 "God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day."
1 John 4:8 "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."
1 Timothy 1:17 "To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen."
1 Corinthians 1:9 "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."
John 3:36 "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Jesus is Lord.
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What is gender? Seriously, what is gender? It's a function within a language. The most common form is "masculine" and "feminine" and generally males are assigned masculine and females are assigned feminine although a lot of languages assign gender to inanimate objects. In English it is is only seen in the third person pronouns and generally only to persons. (As in the expression "It's a boy" ... shouldn't that be "He's a boy.")
Now we come to the English dirty little secret. "It" is often derogatory. (Which makes that expression "It's a boy" all the more annoying.) It tends to imply non sentience. It tends to imply non life.
So as a result if a sentient being has no "sex" we need to assign one because "it" becomes derogatory. Since you don't want to be derogatory to God you can't say "it." God is spirit (and truth).
If you look at Genesis, God created the world by, literally saying it to being. He didn't give "birth" to the world, so therefore "he" probably makes more sense than "she."
It's sort of looking at the gender of the classic angels of the bible; seriously what is the gender of a winged set of interlocking wheels?
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To add to this, from my understanding it also has to do with the nature of God and Creation.
We refer to God as a Father because a father creates but that creation is not within him and so too did God create Creation yet Creation is not a part of Him.
Pantheism (I believe that's the right term) is the belief that everything is a god or gods. Many pantheists would describe their god as a mother like "mother earth" (Gaia is the greek version) or the instant flashback machine of Pachamama.
Either way, when one says "God the Mother" it could suggest that Creation is within God or (more accurately) a part of God (or God.) At the same time God has been described and compared to mothers however to avoid confusion He is called "God the Father."
As Frustrated Franciscans pointed out, saying "it" would be offensive. That's what we call rocks, not an infinite and all good Being. We don't even call humans "it" (hopefully.)
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Very solid explanations from yall. Something else to add is that in relationship to the Father, we are all relatively feminine in the sense that he is the perpetual giver and we are the receiver of grace and His love which we are unable to reciprocate to an equal degree. Church architecture points to this reality in the tradition of placing baldachins which were usually found over marriage beds over the altar itself. Priests in Christ's person act as the tangible giver of the Eucharist as grooms of the Church like Christ which is in line with the nature of biological man.
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Hello everyone! pax christi vobiscum
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Hello!
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So the Church of Sweden made the headlines...
what those hereti... hem, protestant fellows did again?
Omensa, The Pilgrims in the Desert, and Alvsbyn
Yup those nice "Christians"... On Saint Eric of Sweden's feast day of all days.
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so, that is now their only feast day in the whole year?
Omensa and Alvsbyn
What did they do?
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Declared that their "church" is transgender. Therefore applying that Christ is transgender.
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there is faster ways to enter hell
the so-called """catholic""" Rhode Island governor agreed an unlimited access to abortion... one more modernist who think that God's will is a joke...
Omensa, The Pilgrims in the Desert, Alvsbyn, and The new papal lands
Very sad. I fear someday the Catholic Church will will be preaching the same message. It’s only a matter of time. Faithful Catholics need to step up.
"In Christ there is no east or west in Him no ... hey wait a minute ..." 😉
Omensa, The Pilgrims in the Desert, Alvsbyn, and The new papal lands
On a happy note, starting Pentecost Sunday, my local parish will no longer have every other pew blocked off. Even the hymnals will be returned to the pews. Masks will still be required (except within the sanctuary) because no one wants to ask people for their vaccination papers. Honestly, I never expected this level of common sense from my local bishop.
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Congrats! My bishop still encourages us to watch online mass if possible. Haven't been inside a physical church in over a year. That's been an obstacle to my spiritual health.
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Same! My parish has done that also. I am located in the Joliet Diocese in Illinois
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I’ll be praying for you and your diocese. What country are you located in? I’m just wondering if your rules are different because you live in a high COVID country
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Should we make a map of all the countries located in “Catholic?”
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Never-mind, we have too many countries.
Does anyone know how to create a dispatch?
I recently updated my flag. Feel free to check out my Facebook titled “National Flag” for more information.
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