The
Bible has been referring to God as "He" since the
beginning when Moses wrote Genesis approximately
3,500 years ago. In the latter part of this century,
some have begun to question whether God is male,
female, or neuter. This has become so intense that
recently some published a neuter Bible, modifying
all passages referring to God as male. Before anyone
modifies the Bible to neutralize the gender of God,
one should understand why the Bible refers to God as
"He." After all, the Bible is inspired by God, and
it would be inappropriate to make any modifications
which would change His meaning.
Mankind was Created in God's Image
Mankind was
originally created in the image of God; he was
created to express God in His life and to love God.
But man fell away from God through sin; therefore,
today we do not see mankind the way mankind was
intended to be. Instead of expressing the God of
love and righteousness, mankind took in Satan and is
expressing the devilish nature of hatred and
unrighteousness. Instead of loving God, mankind
loves many other people, matters, and things in this
world as replacements of God.
God Is the Father
God is abundant in His life. He wants many sons to
be His expression. In order for human beings to
become His sons, they must receive God as life. When
they have Him as life, they are begotten of Him; He
becomes their Father. In the Bible, the source of
one's life is one's father, not mother. Therefore,
the Bible refers to God as He.
God Wants a Wife
In Genesis, the
first book of the Bible, we are told that mankind
was created both male and female. This fact displays
something about God and His heart. After the man
Adam was created, God said that it was not good for
man to live alone and built a woman as his wife.
This indicates that God feels that He is alone and
wants a wife. God is perfect in Himself, but not
complete in the sense that He longs for a
counterpart to complement Him and to be His love. In
Revelation, the last book of the Bible, God has a
universal corporate bride: the people who are
redeemed by Him through His death, filled with Him
as life, and built into a corporate woman. In
between the first and last books, the Bible develops
this thought and reveals how God, through much
labor, accomplishes this task.
God Is the Husband of Created Mankind
God considers all
His people as a universal corporate woman. All
created men symbolize the "real man" - God. All
created women symbolize the real universal woman -
God's wife. Isaiah 54:5 tells us that our Maker is
our Husband. He is the "real man" of the universe.
He is all that is desired of in a "real man." He is
almighty, loving, kind, and righteous. He does not
get sick or die. He cares for the ones He created.
He is a great provider. He made the heaven for the
earth, and He made the earth for mankind with all
that is necessary, such as air, water, food,
material for clothing and housing. He is a universal
hero. He is always ready to save His created people.
He has all the qualities men seek to have and women
seek after in a man. What God wants is that His
created mankind, as a corporate woman, would give
all her love to Him alone.
God to Us Is a He in Life and in Love
In terms of the
source of life, God is our Father and we are His
sons. In terms of the relationship of love, God is
our Husband and we are His wife. Humans may receive
God as life to be His sons and at the same time
believe into Christ to become part of His corporate
beloved in the new creation. The Bible refers to the
believers as the sons and wife of God. As God is the
Father and Husband, the Bible refers to God as He.
As God's sons, we are all male and no one is female.
As God's beloved, we are all female and no one is
male. There is no male or female in the new
creation. As sons, we express our Father. As His
corporate wife, we love our Husband above everything
and submit fully to Him. But in either case God to
us is still a He.
The Dispute between Male and Female
In leaving God,
mankind became devoid of God's life and the love for
God, and therefore was not subject to God's
authority but under Satan's control. The
relationship between male and female has become
spoiled. Fallen men, because of the sinful nature in
them and their greater physical strength, have been
mistreating women for centuries. Unfaithfulness,
battery, slavery, robbery, physical violation,
mental abuse, discrimination, and even murder, in
most cases, were committed by men against women
rather than by women against men. There has been a
building up of resentment and animosity among
females throughout the past six thousand years of
human history. Therefore, within this century, there
has been a struggle for equal rights and legislation
against gender discrimination and for the protection
of women.
The men should not be blamed entirely. Women, the
symbols of God's corporate bride, did not submit to
men just as the whole of mankind did not submit to
God. The Bible says, "For a husband is head of the
wife as also Christ is Head of the church, He
Himself being the Savior of the Body. But as the
church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be
subject to their husbands in everything. Husbands,
love your wives even as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself up for her."
Neither the males nor the females are capable of
absolute love and submission, respectively. The
dispute between the sexes is growing, and the rift
is greater than ever. That is why some people have
changed the Bible to refer to God as neither male
nor female to make this book "politically correct."
There is no light at the end of this dark tunnel of
dispute among mankind except one - turning back to
God the Father and Husband.
Coming Home to God the Father and Husband
What mankind needs
today is to come home to God the Father for life and
the Husband for love. God is the real "He" of the
universe. When we need life and authority to express
God and stand against the devil, He is our true and
life-giving Father. When we need love, protection,
provision, and pleasure, He is our real and proper
Husband. We the fallen "he's" and "she's" need
"Him." We the males and females need to be His
strong sons and His lovely bride. Open up and pray
to Him, "Lord God of heaven and earth, through the
redeeming death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, I
want to come back to You. Be my life-giving Father
and my loving Husband." When more and more people
come back to God the Father and Husband, the
animosity between God and mankind, and among
mankind, will be dissolved, and the earth will be a
lovely and peaceful place to live.
Bible Verses for Your Reading:
Genesis 1:26-27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion... over all the earth... So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Titus 3:3 For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving as slaves various lusts and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Hebrews 2:15 And might release those who because of the fear of death through all their life were held in slavery.
1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.
Colossians 1:21 And you, though once alienated and enemies in your mind because of your evil works.
Jeremiah 3:1 Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 3:14-15 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, Of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named.
Galatians 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who is thirsty come; let him who wills take the water of life freely.
Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish.
Matthew 5:45 He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Ephesians 5:23 For a husband is head of the wife as also Christ is Head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the Body.
Galatians 3:28 There cannot be male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:18 Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.
Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, He who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition, the enmity.
Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Revelations 21:4 And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death will be no more, nor will there be sorrow or crying or pain anymore; for the former things have passed away.