20 Cindy K,

For God to have created both male and female, He would have had to be transcendent over gender (greater than and pass beyond the limits of gender). And there MUST be something in God that defines the perfect standard of gender, though this need not mean that God has gender. Gender may be a metaphor and an allegory that God designed to reveal aspects of His character to us, and He Himself may have absolutely no gender at all. In some sense, to say that God IS male is to anthropomorphize Him.

Gender has to be contained in God, as there can never be more of something in the creation than there is in the Creator.

I would say that “gender traits” are contained in God, but gender is not. Our understanding of gender is mostly physical and God has no physical body parts to make him male or female. Character traits – yes he does have those.

How can the finite possibly understand the infinite in fullness? Again, we only know what we have been taught. Within God, there is the ideal of both masculine and feminine.

Yes, I agree and very nicely put!