Rose

I have to say that this is another one of the issues involving women in the Church that I struggle with a good deal. I can understand the position that God is pure Spirit and since He is not human, He doesn’t have a gender. But I am definitely going to ask God about this when I finally do meet Him face to face (at least in a manner of speaking) in Heaven. Quite frankly, it does bother me that God so often expresses Himself in male terms for this reason: since God constantly identifies Himself in His Word as a male (Father, King, etc.) in a lot of ways it provides men with a fellow male role model in Heaven they can identify with, and that in turn leaves me as a woman feeling quite left out. It does hurt me that men have a Father role model they can identify with in Heaven, but women are seemingly left out of the equation — we don’t get to have a God who identifies Himself as mother and therefore we don’t get to have any kind of a female God we can identify with and relate to. It does make me as a woman feel pretty left out and hurt that all the Christian men get to have something like that but we don’t.