What if God is a Woman?
It’s considered edgy in popular culture to depict God as a woman. Some pop songs refer to God with feminine verbiage. And it’s widespread in liberal theology, especially among egalitarians and feminists.
To justify this, these liberal theologians might use passages like Hosea 13:8, where God says, “I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs.” Or Isaiah 42:14 where it says the Lord cries out “like a woman in labor.” Or Matthew 23:37 where Jesus longs to gather Jerusalem “as a hen gathers her chicks.”
But these are all similes to convey strong emotion. The hen reference was made by Jesus, the God-man.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” (Matthew 23:37-39)
Even the Apostle Paul made such statements. He said to the wayward Galatians he was in “the anguish of childbirth” for them (Galatians 4:19), and to the Thessalonians he was gentle with them “like a nursing mother” (1 Thes. 2:7).
In all of Scripture, there is never one feminine title for God. He is never called a queen, mother, daughter, or bride. He’s always described in masculine terms: Lord, King, Ruler, Judge, Warrior, Savior, Father, Husband, Shepherd.
While it’s true that God is spirit and not man, He has chosen to reveal Himself in the masculine, and that is how we must revere Him. To make God feminine, even using feminine pronouns, reeks of pride, fashioning a god of your own making.
“Because of today, because of the cross, it is a pain that God Herself understands… Referring to God as She or Mother serves as an important, liberating reminder. – Rachel Held Evans, April 6, 2012; May 16, 2014.
Repent, lest you be judged with the nations who worshiped the Asherah, or the mother-god (Micah 5:14-15).
I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities. An in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey. (Micah 5:14-15)
1 John 2:22 tells us that the antichrist “denies the Father and the Son.” Whoever worships the Son worships the Father also,
…when we understand the text.
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