https://www.bible.com/bible/114/ISA.54.5-8.NKJV#:~:text=Isaiah%2054%3A5%2D8%20NKJV,refused%2C%E2%80%9D%20Says%20your%20God.
Hmm seems humanity is nonbinary |
Male (or masculine) is God’s revealed gender. |
Who was the writer? |
Also, you know, none of us know the language the documents were written in |
QED, I guess. Stating the obvious is dull and unhelpful. |
What if it was written in a genderless language? In a language without plurals? Inaccuracies pop up everytime a piece is translated. |
All of the evidence is against this, given the presence of gendered pronouns in both ancient and modern Semitic languages. But since proving a negative is impossible ("Can you prove there wasn't a pre-pre-pre-Hebrew genderless proto-language?"), it's pretty easy to go into a fatal spiral of counterfactuals. Not would I would call intellectually honest inquiry, though. |
Isaiah 54:5-6 For the One who made you - whose name is "God of Hosts" - will espouse you. The Holy One of Israel - who is called "God of all the earth" - will redeem you. God has called you back as a wife forlorn and forsaken. Can one cast off the wife of his youth? said your God. Also, most of Hosea 2. |
There is a Jewish midrash (oral tradition) that Adam was both male and female before Eve was split from him, at which point, they became male and female. "Adam" in Hebrew comes from the same root word as "Adom" which means "red" (like the clay of the earth that God used to make Adam) or "Adamah" which means "from the ground." |
Some of us do... ✡️ |
This is going to be good... What language is that? |
Ummm... he is called "Father" by Jesus Christ. We do not see Him as gender free. |
He is the Father. |
I understand gender neutral language but the prayers I grew up with mean a lot to me so I want to still say He |
+1 I think Christianity's placement of God in the Trinity as the Father to the male Son of God, Jesus Christ, makes it harder for anyone to conceptualize God as anything other than male. |