is God a man?

My answer to the above question is: no, of course not. God is “the Invisible One” and “God is spirit” and not to be divided into the sexes we know here on earth. BUT… God is most certainly masculine.

First, this is a linguistic fact. In both the Hebrew and Greek writings, the word for God is masculine. Second, God is always referred to as “HE” and “HIM.” Countless times, God is also called “the Father.” God fulfills a masculine role. He begets, He is responsible (read: stands guarantee) for creation.

Masculine in the Bible also always means: the head. ‘Head’ means: first, the one who goes ahead. The Hebrew word for ‘head’ (rosh) is also directly related to the word for ‘first’ (rishon). The head bears the responsibility.

It is also very remarkable that we only read of the man that he was created in the Image of God. “… in the Image of God He creates him; male and female He creates them…” A masculine God is not an image that man has made for himself. It is the other way around: the masculine human was made in the image of God!

God is expressly masculine in Scripture. The tragedy today is that we collectively hardly know anymore what this distinction means (> unisex, feminism, and homosexuality). All of this is the result of darkened thinking, as Romans 1 teaches. Where God is no longer acknowledged as GOD (theos, masculine!), reasoning is confounded and thinking is darkened. And in the dark, distinctions fade. Such as between male and female…

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