Why Isn't God A Woman?

"...[For] I am God and not a man...[God isn't even human!]"  (Hosea 11:9, ESV).
"God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind..." (Numbers 23:19, ESV).
"God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth"  (John 4:24, ESV).

Doesn't woman mean that she came out of man?  Man was created first in the divine order and scheme of things and then Eve or the woman out of Adam's rib.  Our God is one of design and order and not of confusion or disarray.  Woman was made for the man, and not the man for the woman as a helpmate for him.  Woman is really the pinnacle and zenith of God's creation--the ultimate masterpiece and crown of all creation.  A woman is no way inferior to man but is his equal and counterpart.  I believe God saved the best for last!

Many men have likewise pondered why God isn't a woman and even New Agers believe in Mother Nature, so to speak; because they would rather lust after a beautiful woman than worship some "old man" as God is often stereotyped and caricatured.  If God were a woman hypothetically speaking, some would counter:  "Why isn't God a man?"

God cannot literally be an "it" or a thing, but He is in the sense that He is spirit and not flesh and bone like us--God has no body and can incarnate and make theophanies at will to appear as He wills--even as fire or an angel.  The reason God is referred to as Father is because Jesus asked us to call Him that and He was His Father. This is not a throwback to our need for a father-figure, but God is attempting to show us that there is a correlation between His relationship with us and that of a father to a child. Think on this and go figure:  If God is in you, what sex is God then? The issue is whether He indwells you or not, not what His gender is.

God has no sex like the angels, but He did say, "Let's create man in our image."   This implies that He gave us the ability to communicate with Him and have a living relationship.  We have a will, emotions, and an intellect.  And He has attributes like courage, strength, compassion, tenderness, humility, and condescension that are not necessarily that of any certain sexual persuasion. God transcends gender definition and is the source of all good attributes.   It is too simplistic to say God is a man; however, Jesus is the Son of Man or the "human one [not the Father, the human one]."  God may be masculine, but if He didn't have a feminine side, where did these traits and characteristics come from, if not God?  Soli Deo Gloria!

How To Explain The Trinity

DISCLAIMER:  NO ONE CAN FULLY FATHOM GOD'S DIVINE NATURE MANIFESTED IN THE TRINITY; HOWEVER, ILLUSTRATIONS AND REASON CAN GIVE INSIGHT AND FAITH.

The Trinity, a term coined by the Church Father and lawyer Tertullian, is terminology for our God who is one in essence (i.e., that they share the attributes of divinity such as omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence), and is three in person--i.e., uniting three personas.  You might say He is triune or has a tripersonality.  He is a threesome, that in one sense is three, and in another only one.  God is one in the sense of a union or of being one like one cluster of grapes (from the Hebrew Echad).  Each of the members of the Godhead work together for one purpose, goal, and will to accomplish it with different job descriptions or roles:  In our salvation, the Father planned it and authored it, the Son accomplished it and achieved it, and the Holy Spirit applies it and completes it; In creation as well as in salvation, the Father initiates, the Son redeems, and the Holy Spirit regenerates.  This is like three functions of matter in the three states of solid, liquid, and gas. Water, ice, and steam are all the same element chemically, though they have different properties.

How can you say that there are three and one and not be contradictory?  If you mean it in a different sense it is no contradiction. According to the law of noncontradiction, something cannot be something and not be something in the same sense at the same time!  If you have three lights on in a room and behold only one light doesn't that mean there is but one light with three sources?  One person may say, from his viewpoint, that there are three lights, and another that there is only one!  It all depends upon perspective.  Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, said this doctrine was illogical and therefore rejected it; however, God's nature isn't necessarily perceptible, apparent, nor lucid to our feeble minds.  You may say it is simple arithmetic:  1 + 1 + 1 = 3; however, 1 X 1 X 1 = 1.

No one can adequately explain the Trinity because the finite cannot contain the infinite, as the Latin maxim says.  We have to take it on faith that this is so!  God will give us enough to take the leap of faith, but He expects us to have faith and not let our cerebral doubts get in the way.  Our intellects can be a stumbling block to our faith, get in the way, and hinder true faith--God honors the faith of a child.

What I'm getting at is that you cannot fathom nor explain this doctrine, even if you have all eternity! We cannot peg God, put Him in a box, nor analyze Him to our specs or satisfaction!  Just accept it by faith and realize that God is infinite and you are finite and cannot comprehend God. God boggles our mind and just thinking about Him is mental gymnastics. There is always more to God than we apprehend--this is called the profundity of God.  God speaks to us in baby talk, or lisping, and is condescending to our level to have a relationship with us, who are in His image--that's why we are capable of it.

In conclusion:  I confess I cannot fully comprehend it, but I believe despite this.  You don't need all the answers to have faith, just go in the direction of the preponderance of the evidence like a jury is instructed to do.  God with the flow!  When the majority of the evidence suggests or dictates a conclusion--go with it!  Behold the "three-in-oneness" of God. "God in three persons, blessed Trinity."  They say the Trinity is not three ways of looking at God (like a man may be a husband, brother, and son), nor three persons or personas that together make up or complete God (this is called tritheism and is like the parts of an egg or apple together make up the whole egg or apple), but a threesome and a union incomprehensibly made one.    Soli Deo Gloria!