The Masculine God
June 22, 2019
ATILA Sinke Guimarães examines the reasons why God is referred to as masculine, even though He is neither man nor woman:
The nature of God is spiritual. He is a pure spirit and, as such, has no sex, since this is a characteristic of living material beings turned toward the perpetuation of the species. Thus both sexes are reflected in God and should be considered made in the image and likeness of Him. However, it is not correct that God can be symbolized equally by man or woman.
In the man the image and likeness of God is properly expressed, but in the woman this exists to the measure in which she participates in the very plenitude of the man. The woman was created for the man – to be spouse, mother, or daughter – while the man was created to rule the material universe, to govern his equals and, in this way, to serve and glorify God. Therefore, the man is, from this aspect, the proper symbol of God, while the woman is the symbol by participation. Therefore, it is inadequate to refer to God as woman.
All this is pretty outrageous, from a feminist point of view.
That’s because feminism is an Inferiority Complex. Feminism is motivated by weakness, femininity by strength.