The Masculine God the Father.
In an age where its now becoming an offence to refer to God as dad be rest assured he is our daddy.
Certain Catholic schools in Brisbane Australia have removed the term Him or Father from prayers and other forms of education. Some politically correct Arch Bishops believe God is gender neutral.
The Bible has much to say about God as he wants himself to be known and worshiped. So, what does God have to say about himself?
Before I get into it I would like to share just from creation and God's handy work how God reveals himself.
Firstly, if we look at creation, God himself is a great master craftsman and a builder. There are female builders in society but have you ever wondered why men are naturally drawn to it? Its not just because they are more powerful with muscles needed! Its because we have certain DNA that is drawn to building and creating!
When God created the world from the Biblical account he created Adam and Eve. God says in Genesis that he will create them in his own image. That doesn’t mean God is a man or a woman in the image of his creation. It meant that the spiritual characteristics and Gods form is in the likeness of man but at another level beyond any comparison.
Throughout the Bible God stays hidden. There are some stories of God showing his hand, wrestling with Jacob and other accounts including being in the fiery furnace with Daniel.
However, God actually revealing himself is hidden until Jesus Christ comes on the scene.
When Jesus arrives he straight away starts to explain to people more details about God that have been kept secret until his arrival.
Not only does he start to explain in more depth about God but he also points to the scriptures and makes clear that God is a… he.
In Isaiah God is explained as Prince of Peace and Almighty Father.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
Above we see Isaiah making distinctions about Jesus and his coming. Not only does Isaiah call him a son but he also calls him a God, Everlasting father and a prince of peace. Not a princess.
An argument against this could be that God came in the form of a man, prince and everlasting father as the Son but in real terms it was only to relate to us and his form is of the contrary?!
In hindsight it could be looked at as a strong argument which most progressives and politically correct people who believe otherwise think.
There are arguments for God being more of a woman with certain terms in the Bible portraying God to have motherly characteristics. For example, in Luke 15:8 Jesus describes God:
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
So here we see God being represented like a woman and his friends are the angles.
There are many verses in the Bible that may explain God is this way. However, when it comes to the crunch and the metaphors are removed Jesus clearly describes God as his Father outside of the metaphors.
Jesus not only describes God as Father but as “him” just the way the Jesus is a man God is a Father.
An example of this is John 5:26
“For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”
Here if we have a close look at this verse Jesus calls himself a “he” and he calls God a “he”.
The same way that Jesus looks at himself as a “he”, he looks at God as a “he”.
Not only does he call God Father but he also calls God a “he”. All the way through the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Jesus mentions God as Father and a “he”. The same Jesus speaks about John the Baptist as a he, he also speaks of God as a he using the same words.
Throughout the New Testament, the word “himself “and “he” is used to describe men and God more than in any other time in history. Jesus finally clarifies that God has a masculine form and character. The fact that Jesus is the only one that has seen God and claims to be God wraps up the argument convincingly.
God wants us to know him. Not as some genderless alien being that we cannot relate to but a God who knows us and created us in his image.
Even through the final book of Revelation God explains himself to be the groom and the Church his bride. We are not the King being married to a queen but a bride being married to the groom.
In these last days the enemy wants to confuse us by taking away our revelations of who God is, what he values and what he says about himself. It will try to twist things around so we are confused and led astray with the ultimate goal of rejecting God and his grace and truths.
The same way mankind came from a single man as Paul explains in 1 Cor 15:45 so we also come from the second Adam and a life-giving spirit.
So, it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
Paul explains here that our rebirth as Christians comes from a second Adam that is Jesus Christ. Just as the Father created Adam in his own image.
And we all know that Adam and Jesus are men. Whether God has a specific gender form unlike Jesus is yet to be known however we know for sure that he finally makes himself known through the man Jesus Christ and presents himself as “himself”.
In an age where its now becoming an offence to refer to God as dad be rest assured he is our daddy.
Certain Catholic schools in Brisbane Australia have removed the term Him or Father from prayers and other forms of education. Some politically correct Arch Bishops believe God is gender neutral.
The Bible has much to say about God as he wants himself to be known and worshiped. So, what does God have to say about himself?
Before I get into it I would like to share just from creation and God's handy work how God reveals himself.
Firstly, if we look at creation, God himself is a great master craftsman and a builder. There are female builders in society but have you ever wondered why men are naturally drawn to it? Its not just because they are more powerful with muscles needed! Its because we have certain DNA that is drawn to building and creating!
When God created the world from the Biblical account he created Adam and Eve. God says in Genesis that he will create them in his own image. That doesn’t mean God is a man or a woman in the image of his creation. It meant that the spiritual characteristics and Gods form is in the likeness of man but at another level beyond any comparison.
Throughout the Bible God stays hidden. There are some stories of God showing his hand, wrestling with Jacob and other accounts including being in the fiery furnace with Daniel.
However, God actually revealing himself is hidden until Jesus Christ comes on the scene.
When Jesus arrives he straight away starts to explain to people more details about God that have been kept secret until his arrival.
Not only does he start to explain in more depth about God but he also points to the scriptures and makes clear that God is a… he.
In Isaiah God is explained as Prince of Peace and Almighty Father.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
Above we see Isaiah making distinctions about Jesus and his coming. Not only does Isaiah call him a son but he also calls him a God, Everlasting father and a prince of peace. Not a princess.
An argument against this could be that God came in the form of a man, prince and everlasting father as the Son but in real terms it was only to relate to us and his form is of the contrary?!
In hindsight it could be looked at as a strong argument which most progressives and politically correct people who believe otherwise think.
There are arguments for God being more of a woman with certain terms in the Bible portraying God to have motherly characteristics. For example, in Luke 15:8 Jesus describes God:
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
So here we see God being represented like a woman and his friends are the angles.
There are many verses in the Bible that may explain God is this way. However, when it comes to the crunch and the metaphors are removed Jesus clearly describes God as his Father outside of the metaphors.
Jesus not only describes God as Father but as “him” just the way the Jesus is a man God is a Father.
An example of this is John 5:26
“For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”
Here if we have a close look at this verse Jesus calls himself a “he” and he calls God a “he”.
The same way that Jesus looks at himself as a “he”, he looks at God as a “he”.
Not only does he call God Father but he also calls God a “he”. All the way through the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Jesus mentions God as Father and a “he”. The same Jesus speaks about John the Baptist as a he, he also speaks of God as a he using the same words.
Throughout the New Testament, the word “himself “and “he” is used to describe men and God more than in any other time in history. Jesus finally clarifies that God has a masculine form and character. The fact that Jesus is the only one that has seen God and claims to be God wraps up the argument convincingly.
God wants us to know him. Not as some genderless alien being that we cannot relate to but a God who knows us and created us in his image.
Even through the final book of Revelation God explains himself to be the groom and the Church his bride. We are not the King being married to a queen but a bride being married to the groom.
In these last days the enemy wants to confuse us by taking away our revelations of who God is, what he values and what he says about himself. It will try to twist things around so we are confused and led astray with the ultimate goal of rejecting God and his grace and truths.
The same way mankind came from a single man as Paul explains in 1 Cor 15:45 so we also come from the second Adam and a life-giving spirit.
So, it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
Paul explains here that our rebirth as Christians comes from a second Adam that is Jesus Christ. Just as the Father created Adam in his own image.
And we all know that Adam and Jesus are men. Whether God has a specific gender form unlike Jesus is yet to be known however we know for sure that he finally makes himself known through the man Jesus Christ and presents himself as “himself”.
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