I hear this question raised every so often. The usual response is either the idea God is masculine comes out of an unenlightened patriarchal culture and should be rejected or that God has no gender and therefore this should simply be ignored.
I'm happy I found your post since this is something I discussed with a friend a couple of days ago. I think that using "He" is just another device that allows our limited selves to think about God. Linguistic models, just like all models, are mere metaphors with the purpose of giving us *some* insight of the truth. Sometimes we forget that, especially nowadays where people find excuses to fight all the time based on word usage and trying to create meaning by literarily interpreting everything and bringing it to the physical realm. My take is that the Logos in the Bible can be understood as a form of a nuclear semiotics device where the Message transcends through time and space for even and ever - only now it is a message of hope instead of a wanring.
explain and defined in our society as to what it is and why we need Christ to save us from its destruction. If people have no concept of what masculinity or what sin is then the darkness increases.
I'm happy I found your post since this is something I discussed with a friend a couple of days ago. I think that using "He" is just another device that allows our limited selves to think about God. Linguistic models, just like all models, are mere metaphors with the purpose of giving us *some* insight of the truth. Sometimes we forget that, especially nowadays where people find excuses to fight all the time based on word usage and trying to create meaning by literarily interpreting everything and bringing it to the physical realm. My take is that the Logos in the Bible can be understood as a form of a nuclear semiotics device where the Message transcends through time and space for even and ever - only now it is a message of hope instead of a wanring.
explain and defined in our society as to what it is and why we need Christ to save us from its destruction. If people have no concept of what masculinity or what sin is then the darkness increases.
Yikes! I like your words but the AI generated “icon” is really unsettling
It’s the same as the concept of sin even. Sin has to be
I’m relying on an archetypical definition where the masculine acts upon the feminine and the feminine receives.
In terms of modern manhood, that’s a different matter, but it fundamentally stems from this archetypical root.