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Other Hindu traditions conceive God as androgynous (both female and male), alternatively as either male or female, while cherishing gender henotheism, that is without denying the existence of other Gods in either gender. [31] [32] The Shakti tradition conceives of God as a female. Other Bhakti traditions of Hinduism have both male and female gods.
The first words of the Old Testament are B'reshit bara Elohim—"In the beginning God created." [1] The verb bara (created) agrees with a masculine singular subject.[citation needed] Elohim is used to refer to both genders and is plural; it has been used to refer to both Goddess (in 1 Kings 11:33), and God (1 Kings 11:31; [2]).
In order to do so, she wants to utilize the Shekhinah, God’s feminine side. She concludes that God is ultimately beyond gender since gender is a social construction and therefore insignificant. However, because gender does matter so much in our society, God’s gender does and should matter to us. [22]
God also told the woman that she can only desire the man and that he shall rule over her. [15] This is the earliest idea in catholic religion that says women should only be attracted and loyal to men, therefore supporting the claim that there is only a woman for a man. These two gender creation stories imagine the ideal of the unitary self.
The LDS Church believes that before humans lived on earth, they existed spiritually, with a spirit body with defined gender, [28] and that the Holy Spirit had a similar body, but was to become a member of the three personage Godhead [29] (Godhead consisting of God, or Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost).
The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical Western philosophy, transcends bodily form. [130] [131] Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually. In most monotheistic ...
Gender theory, often called gender ideology by its detractors, sugg. Pope Francis on Friday warned of the dangers of so-called gender theory, saying he had commissioned studies into what he ...
There is also a theory which links the verse to Genesis 1:27, which states that man was created in the image of God. [7] There is also an argument that Galatians 3:28 negates Genesis 2:24 , which prescribes gender differences.