What is God's gender?

[andrew_no_one]

I am struggling to find words to describe how ridiculous this conversation is. Calling the Lord God Most High a transgender or a non-gender does not make you a forward or free thinker nor an intellectual. The opening question, I feel, was intended more as an insult than a demonstration of healthy and Godly curiosity.
What is of great interest to me however is what (and whom) is revealed in the light through this discussion. My prayers are with you.

[Br. Barnabas]

I voted other, because God the Father and the Holy Spirit do not have sexual organs so they are genderless. But God the Son, Jesus, does have sexual organs, he became incarnate, he took on the male gender, he is the only person of the Trinity that has gender and it is male.

[Frecs]

Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are Spirit. They have no physical body. What is also clear is that God the Father always refers to Himself in the male pronoun. He doesn't bother to explain the reason for that...it is what it is. He is Who He is. The Bible reveals the aspects of the nature and character of God that are significant. Clearly, any gender issues aren't important to Him. He is Father, not Mother, because He says so.

[Reynolds357]

I am struggling to find words to describe how ridiculous this conversation is. Calling the Lord God Most High a transgender or a non-gender does not make you a forward or free thinker nor an intellectual. The opening question, I feel, was intended more as an insult than a demonstration of healthy and Godly curiosity.
What is of great interest to me however is what (and whom) is revealed in the light through this discussion. My prayers are with you.

I have words to describe how ridiculous it i,s but I guess I better keep them to myself.

[Ta-An]

God is not human... that you can think of Him in human terms....
He is perfect!
When Jesus came in human form, he was a man in gender.

Think of Adam and Eve,,,,, Eve was taken from Adam's side...Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Thus Adam was created in the image of God before Eve was separated from him.
By this I do not imply that God is bi-sexual, but merely that He is perfect.
We refer to Father God, because of His nature.
Jesus as Man, because he came to earth as a man, and because of :
1 Tim 2:5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
And the Holy Spirit is Spirit off-cause

[Madrid]

Jesus said if you have seen me, you have seen my Father. Jesus was a male; male genitalia and all.

I wasn't asking if Jesus is male. I was asking if God is (in the present tense) male.
While I appreciate you offering additional information, I'd prefer to have the original question answered.

[Madrid]

John 4:24-"God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

God is always referred to as He, Him or His. I agree with Seeker, "Father" pretty much indicates what God is referring to Himself as.

By that rationale if everyone refers to the girl who lives down the street as He, Him and Father, then the girl is male - even if she has female genitalia and no male genitalia.
I always thought gender wasn't determined by how people are called or what they're called, but by their physical makeup. Or am I wrong?

[Frecs]

You are wrong. You are ignoring the FACT that God is not a man or a woman...God is SPIRIT. He chose to use FATHER instead of MOTHER. As Creator of the Universe, He has that privilege.

Now, if you want to carve yourself an idol, you decide what gender and whether it has genitalia or not. But, with God, you ain't got that option. Period.

[Brother Mark]

Is God male, female or genderless?

Why do you ask?

[Madrid]

There are two things to consider when asking this question:

What is sex? "Sex" is the physical, biological distinction between the two kinds of human beings. A male human has, simply, male biology. A female human, likewise, has female biology.

What is gender? "Gender" is the non-physical, personal distinction between human beings. While "sex" only has two possible distinction, "gender" has a gradient range of distinctions, falling between masculine and feminine, none of which has to do with physical, biological distinctions. "Gender" is based on commonly accepted roles, cultural norms, and familial hierarchies. While the "sex" of male is stereotyped as having certain "gender" characteristics, and likewise with the "sex" of female, most of them are not required. In other words, masculine males and feminine females are the commonly accepted norms, but it is possible to be a feminine male and a masculine female.

How the two relate: Because most males are masculine, it follows suit that most masculine roles, cultural norms, and familial hierarch are treated as being strictly male-only. In other words, although a "Father" as a family hierarch is a gender-role, it has been cemented as a male-only gender-role. Hence, you won't find any female fathers, nor will you find male mothers. Likewise, kings (gender-role) are strictly male (sex); husbands (gender-role) are strictly male (sex).

Where does God fall in this? Since God is not physical, nor is he biological, he does not have a "sex", in that he is not male, nor is he female. God is sexless. And although Scripture various characteristics which we recognize as masculine and feminine, Scripture overwhelmingly depicts God as having a masculine "gender", from the absolute use of "he" and "him", to the application of terms such as Master, Lord, Father, King, Husband, etc. Since Scripture overwhelmingly refers to God using male-only terminology (he, him, his) and male-only gender-roles (Master, Lord, Father, King, Husband, etc.)... our conclusion is that God does not have a "sex", but he does have a "gender", being masculine.

To nit-pick, the choices are not proper answers for the question. The answer to the question "What is God's gender?" is not "God is male", but rather "God is masculine".

Some have fallen to the peer pressure of being "politically correct" by going out of their way to call God a "she", or to avoid using sex- or gender-based terms at all... But as Christians, we should not deviate from how Scripture reveals God. Scripture reveals God in masculine terminology, so we should refer to God only by masculine terminology.

According to dictionary.com, "gender" is
sex: the feminine gender.
No matter how much you call a genderless or female thing a "he" or "him" or "father", it doesn't change its gender one iota.

[Madrid]

I knew entering into this conversation that it would quickly become frivolous.
Do you have any point you'd like to make?

Please give me an example of a "point" in the context you use the term. I'm asking a question, not trying to make a "point".

[Madrid]

The third person pronoun, "he" is a grammatical gender normally used to indicate the male gender, but it is also used in place of the neuter in cases where the author speaks of persons, rather than things. We do this all the time.

For instance, when speaking about a human baby, we often use the pronoun "he" when we don't know the gender of the baby. I suspect we just can't bring ourselves to call the baby "it", which is derogatory since a person isn't an "it", a thing, or an inanimate object.

Seems like the English language is seriously lacking if there isn't an appropriate word to use in that instance. In some cases, the word "they" is used - even when referring to a single person.

[The Mighty Sword]

Madrid: What's your gender???

[Madrid]

I voted other, because God the Father and the Holy Spirit do not have sexual organs so they are genderless. But God the Son, Jesus, does have sexual organs, he became incarnate, he took on the male gender, he is the only person of the Trinity that has gender and it is male.

The question was asked in the present tense. What gender is God now, not what gender has God been at points in time in the past.

[Madrid]

I have words to describe how ridiculous it i,s but I guess I better keep them to myself.

Please share those words. If you don't wish to post them here, then please PM me.