| BkVII:G.1 | God has no gender. The masculine/feminine duality of personality is a human attribute. And yet, God is both masculine and feminine, for God is All. As All, God is both as personal as you and as impersonal as “It” or “Principle.” Human beings can relate more intimately to a personal God than an impersonal one, and so in his lifetime Jesus created the idea of “God the Father,” which casts God as a loving presence, and humans as part of a Divine Family. During Jesus’ time, the culture could only accept a masculine figure; and ever since, much of the world has related to God as masculine in both imagery and in language. I grew up in a Catholic society in which God was universally referred to as “He.” That tradition is reflected in the first three books of Choose Only Love. |