Interesting editorial from a rabbi who says "yes," is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/opinion/is-god-transgender.html Before you answer, give it a read.
The author cites passages in the bible where the pronoun used to describe people changes and a revised look at what "YHWH" means.
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GOD IS NO GENDER
I don't think that "transgender" is the proper term. I'm not really sure I can even explain what it is that I think about this, but I'll give it a shot.
I think that God embodies all the traits that we assign to define gender. Not that God is one or the other, or even both, but that we each are a reflection of our our creator in part, but none of us reflects a complete image. JMHO
I don't believe "God" has a gender anymore the bridges or keys or trees have a gender.
The fact the Abrahamic God is perceived as Great Sky Father strikes me as an artifact of the patriarchal/authoritarian culture in which those religions arose, not any inherent characteristic of God.
No. God may not have gender but God is not transgender. I read the article. It sounded interesting.
I am certainly not any kind of Hebrew scholar but I do not see the he/she as the same YHWH in the Hebrew writing. I can compare symbols. It does not look the same to me. The "she" symbol has a dot below for both example. The YHWH symbol doe not have a dot below at all.
God is the only. We use masculine pronouns because of the limitations of our language.
Is this world bonkers or what? Children argue about whether a kitten is a boy or a girl. Grownups argue about whether God is a boy or a girl.It is obvious that gender is the most important fact of life, after being sure the building is not on fire. And then a bunch of dingbats try to tell us that gender is a matter of personal decision, and gender roles are optional.
