Here’s a little thought that just popped into my head. In Christian circles at least, God always seems to be referred to as He, or the Father. Why a He? I can’t see how any gender should be assigned to the idea of God.
The emergence of two distinct sexes is a result of evolution, allowing genetic variation in offspring. It is something very down-to-earth and biological. What does this have to do with an omnipotent spiritual being such as God?
Now, your average creationist probably doesn’t believe the part about two different sexes resulting from evolution, but even if we ignore evolution completely, what relevance does gender have to God? Maybe in older religions with multiple gods it is understandable, as ‘junior’ gods and demi-gods are often fathered and/or mothered by the union of more ‘senior’ gods. Christianity however, is monotheistic. One God, that created people from the earth and whose son was born from a virgin mother. No mention of any kind of sexual reproduction that I’m aware of. Now, the main distinction between males and females is the reproductive system, which is only useful to a physical organism. If God is an omnipotent spiritual being and would produce his son via virgin birth, I doubt he would need or possess anything resembling the human reproductive system.
My logic is thus, to label God as a He is tantamount to saying He has a male reproductive system and is thereby attributing a biological characteristic to Him (or should I say, It?), which to me seems like it could be seen as a type of blasphemy.
So, 2 questions:
1. Why He?
2. Could assigning a gender to God be considered blasphemy?
All intelligent viewpoints/thoughts welcome.
Personally, I say that it was man who created God in his image, not the other way around.
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