God has traditionally been described using masculine terms in Christian scripture and theology.. While this has sometimes given rise to the idea that Christians consider God to be male, the majority of Christians believe that God transcends gender.
The exception to this is of course Jesus Christ, who is considered God by the vast majority of Christians, and is clearly male.
The first words of the Old Testament are B'reshit bara Elohim — "In the ...
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God has traditionally been described using masculine terms in Christian scripture and theology.. While this has sometimes given rise to the idea that Christians consider God to be male, the majority of Christians believe that God transcends gender.
The exception to this is of course Jesus Christ, who is considered God by the vast majority of Christians, and is clearly male.
The first words of the Old Testament are B'reshit bara Elohim — "In the beginning God created." The verb bara (he created) suggests a masculine subject. Elohim is also masculine in form.
Two of most common phrases in the Tanakh are vayomer Elohim and vayomer YHWH — "and God said" (hundreds of occurrences). Again, the verb vayomer (he said) is masculine; it is never vatomer, the feminine of the same verb form. The personal name of God, YHWH, is presented in Exodus 3 as if the Y (Hebrew yod) is the masculine subjective prefix to the verb to be.
In Psalms 89:26 God is referred to as Father. "He shall cry unto me,...
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