“A Special Note about Gender: 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 ion 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.
“In Book IV, however, God more fully revealed Herself: ‘Until now, God Himself, in His infinite knowledge, wanted to show Himself in the world as Father, as well as the love that He is. But from now on She wants to show Herself as Mother, not only as wisdom. The ‘feminine’ of God will come to light more and more every day.’ Thus the reader will notice that the language of the final four books in this series reflects both the masculine and feminine natures of God.” – from Sebastian Blaksley, receiver of Choose Only Love. Passage is from Choose Only Love, Bk. 7, introductory material.
The explanation about gender, you will note, quoted above, comes from Sebastian and is here quoted from Book 7.
Traditionally, Christianity has used the masculine gender, as did Jesus 2,000 years ago. Now we are encouraged to think of God in broader terms, knowing (as I think Jesus knew, too) that God is bigger than one gender. In the more inclusive way that God is dealing with us now, we are encouraged to try to see His/Her grandeur, that the God we worship is not to be seen in anthropomorphic terms.
We tend to see God in our own image, but that somewhat misstates the case. We are told in the Genuis that God created us in His image—not the reverse. So we are encouraged to try to think in “God terms,” and of course this attempt asks a lot of us.
The Mother God will be seen by us as a gentler version, for most of us carry warm feelings toward the one who birthed us and cuddled us in her arms. The mother/child bond has been seen as the most significant of all our relationships. And Book 7 of Choose Only Love recognizes this significance.
Ask God to show us how to think of the Godhead. See if what Sebastian says here in his reception of Choose Only Love finds a place in our hearts.
Fantastic blog post! God is often referred to as ‘him’ in religions.