Why is the Christian God Male?

The Christian God is male because Christianity was started by sexist men. It's really as simple as that. The society of the time was very patriarchal, and signs of that are all over the Bible. In the Bible, it says that women should never have any sort of leadership position in a church, and that they should not even SPEAK in church. The Bible also 'preaches' that wives are to be unconditionally submissive to their husbands, which means if you're a woman with an abusive husband, you have to just take it and deal with it. It's one of the many flaws of Christianity, as well as most other primitive religions.

The Christian God is definitely not a male. God is beyond gender.

Because the Bible says so thats why....Its always been that way and will always remain that way and i also am very happy with it being that way..A woman was never thought of when God created man....Woman was created for man after man was created,and she was created for the man....

Hey I am not a 100% sure on this but I think it comes from the bible lol, no but really I have been told it is because God is called our father who art in heaven, A man being the maker of babies, and like a Daddy he sets out rules and supports his children,(I know I know women can do all of this as well but, then again the time and understanding and social status was all very different way back when) I dont think God has a Gender, I think it is so our little minds can wrap around the understanding of who God is suppose to be, and I am not inferior to men and I dont need a more prominant role in my religion, I try not to think of my beliefs as a religion, but as a relationship with my creator, God is a spirit so I worship in spirit. Good Question , hopefully LOL, you will get a lot of responses.

A good question! I think u've read bible, so u should knew whats women position in Christianity. As simple as that. Anyway, God must not has gender, but Jesus was a male, and a Father always = male. lol

First, God is far, far too powerful to be male or female. There is no need for gender if you don't reproduce, since all residents of heaven came from God as he created them. Second, the Pope is nothing more than an overinflated Pharisee. The Catholic Church has been a massive, massive failure in the eyes of God as a caretaker of the flock of worshippers of God. Why do you think Jesus saw the poor as "being thrown about like sheep without a shepherd?" Third, Women were always respected in the bible, just not made much light of by mainstream religion. In the book of Revelation, God's Heavenly Arrangement was even referred to as a woman, because before God's Kingdom was started, it came FROM the Heavenly Arrangement as a child comes from a woman. PLease respond so we can continue this discussion.

He is our Heavenly Father.

God does not have a gender. God is not a single thing, or even all things. Our ideas about God can have gender associations. The reason why the early conceptions of God were female, and then later male, are the same reasons why the vast majority of people first attach to Mother, then to Father, and finally find some sense of self. Cultures follow the same development lines as their constituent people, but on a mush more protracted scale. Early cultures identified more with the totality of the word and so the worship of God took the form of Nature worship. Later cultures identified more with the nurturing food provider, and emotional foundational bonds, and so God was worshiped as female gendered. The Great Mother. Still later, and mirroring the development patterns of the majority of individuals, culture identified with the apparent source of authority, reason, and emotional distance. God was worshiped as the Great Father. In modern times cultures are beginning to identify more with Self, moving into a state of independence and self-reflective awareness and determination. God has become the Great System, and each individual an equal part of the All. Each of these types are just flavorings, none more valid than another. Sadly, like all development on an individual scale, it is easier to deny and vilify the icons and ideas of a stage one moves from than to integrate them. People typically surpass and disown (which leads to suppressing), rather than transcend and include. So, in modern times we are left with a culture still in the throws of making Mom (women) the bad guys. Hopefully as we continue upwards a more healthy outlook will be taken (but probably just as we move into an adolescent distaste for Dad...) Who says God can't be female? Anyone afraid of women, and Mom. Healing that hatred is the way to re-integrate Mom, and move closer to truth.

I think God is male because the bible was written by men. It was easier for them to identify with a male god. Its the same way with Jesus -- every image I've seen of Jesus has been a white man with blondish hair and beard - even though we know that he was from the middle east, and probably didn't look like that at all. It is what was familiar to the artists that originally created the image.

I don't know where this began becouse the word used for God in the creation story is Elohim, Elohim is a fimanine plural foem of El (masculine singular).

I don't think God has a gender. But we got this idea from the early writings which used He as a 'default gender' because according to an article I once read, some languages are male-oriented thereby it reflects on their writings. This 'gender idea' was carried on to modern times which eventually became a notion that God is a Father, thus, he is male. But I know this isn't so. Just to avoid confusion, and hassle, we prefer calling Him a He just for that purpose but in reality we must embrace the idea that God is neither a he or she. Nor is he an 'it'! You have the option to choose what pronoun you wanted but that would never be enough to represent what God truly is. :-)