Him, Her, Them,?
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Anonymous
| Why do we use He, Him for God? Why assign gender if we see him as gender free? |
Anonymous
| Because men were the ones doing the assigning. |
Anonymous
| Some dudes made up the whole concept and just did it how they wanted. |
Anonymous
| Some churches, like the Episcopal church, are very flexible around the language. |
Anonymous
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A lot of the male-centered language for God compares God to the husband and humanity as God's bride. It sets up a partnership/marriage between God and the people within a construct that we understand.
That said, there is a movement to just drop pronouns for God altogether, and an increasing awareness/understanding (I think) that gendered language for God is a tool to help us better understand God, while God is actually genderless, just like we refer to God's outstretched arm, when our theology also says God doesn't have a body. These are just tools to help us conceptualize God. |
Anonymous
| If you believe the Abrahamic scriptures, then it is because He self-identifies with He/Him/His pronouns. So pronouns in bio, as it were. No need to misgender Him. |
Anonymous
Poor troll attempt |
Anonymous
| Oh, come on, OP. You know this. Because most foundational religious myths and texts were authored by men. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Can you give an example of this marriage? I've heard King and Father but not Husband. |
Anonymous
God is nuns husband |
Anonymous
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This is badly out of fashion now, but here is one example of the Husband metaphor, which St. Paul calls a "great mystery".
Ephesians 5: 22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.a 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
Anonymous
| Our priest uses only "God" for God -- where the bible uses He, it is replaced in our bulletin with God. Our priest doesn't change "He" references to Jesus, though. Which makes sense. |
Anonymous
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Why does an inanimate object have a gender? Like a boat for example. Boats and ships are she… why?
God is he because men wrote the Bible, men with biases…. |
Anonymous
Is it possible that two things are true? A. God is indeed "he" AND B. Biased men wrote the Bible It seems that one does not strictly refute the other. If God is genderless, what is your source for positing this? |