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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;risk_reward, post: 343603, member: 12702&quot;]If anyone really cares, here is a good representation of the Christian perspective.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?process&amp;procID=1518&amp;cuQA_qaID=1&amp;cuTopic_topicID=2&amp;cuItem_itemID=3385" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?process&amp;procID=1518&amp;cuQA_qaID=1&amp;cuTopic_topicID=2&amp;cuItem_itemID=3385" rel="nofollow">http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?process&amp;procID=1518&amp;cuQA_qaID=1&amp;cuTopic_topicID=2&amp;cuItem_itemID=3385</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[SIZE=+2]Q:[/SIZE]<b>How do we know that God is male and not female? </b>[SIZE=+2]A:[/SIZE]God is spirit (John 4:24) and, to the best of our knowledge and understanding, not a &quot;sexual being&quot; in the same way his creatures are. So we do not say or maintain that the Christian faith requires us to say that &quot;God is male&quot; in that sense. It would not be false doctrine to say that God is an asexual personal Being. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We also know that God, in revealing himself to mankind, consistently chose to use male terms concerning himself (Father, Son, masculine pronouns, etc.). And we know that when the Son of God became a human being, he became a male person and remains so. It is also true that he sometimes uses feminine picture language to describe his activities among us, as in Matthew 23:37.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When we speak about God it is our privilege and responsibility to remain true to his self-revelation, so we retain the male vocabulary and terminology that he uses in his Word. We believe that we have no right or ability to try to improve on his manner of making himself known to us. Therefore we refer to God as male in that sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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