{"id":1080,"date":"2015-03-16T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2015-03-16T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:26:58","slug":"is-god-genderless-is-there-a-god-the-mother-and-god-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Is God Genderless? Is there a God the Mother and God the Father?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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God the Mother as part of the Trinity on a church ceiling in Urschalling Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My seminary<\/a> friends and I were discussing God-the-Father and God-the-Mother existing as one step down from the Absolute, an Ultimate deity (in the Wisdom Traditions called “The Monad”) who is beyond gender, even beyond\/above Creation.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia articles give Christian and Jewish opinions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Gender of God in Christianity http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gender_of_God_in_Christianity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the majority of Christian denominations (with the notable exception of Mormonism) accept a God who transcends gender.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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    1. Gender of God in Judaism http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gender_of_God_in_Judaism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 G-d has no body, no genitalia, therefore\u00c2\u00a0the very idea that G-d is male or female is patently absurd. We refer to G-d using masculine terms simply for convenience’s sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; G-d is no more male than a table is.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      My seminary friends and I were discussing God-the-Father and God-the-Mother existing as one step down from the Absolute, an Ultimate deity (in the Wisdom Traditions called “The Monad”) who is beyond gender, even beyond\/above Creation. Wikipedia articles give Christian and Jewish opinions:   Gender of God in Christianity http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gender_of_God_in_Christianity \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the majority of Christian denominations (with … Continue reading Is God Genderless? Is there a God the Mother and God the Father?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sacred-feminine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t