I have long ago stopped believing that God is a male. God defies gender, but in order to make humans in a patriarchal society understand and relate, God self-defines as male in Scripture--at times.
To Moses, he simply said, "I AM who I AM."
But in other places, he is a king, father, shepherd, potter. All traditionally male roles.
But there are other descriptions that can be read as traditionally female.
There is plenty of literature out there that tackles this subject, so I won't right now.
In class the other night, we wondered why Jesus incarnated into a man and not a woman.
I think it might be because it is man who needs to be redeemed. (There's also the theological corollary of Christ being the second Adam.)
But the fact that so much male language is used to describe the Godhead often leaves women out of the trinitarian loop.
Well, if the Spirit could impregnate Mary with Divine seed that led to Jesus' human form, then can the Spirit not effect similar bendings of gender when we need it--or when our salvation depends on it?
Like what happens in The Shack, cannot God manifest herself in female form if that's the only way to redeem a person back into relationship with God?
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