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Michelle Griffin-Nance Male Devine University of Phoenix February 21, 2011 The gender of god in the face of the onslaught of the question of the female divine is the question in this article in the theologies. The study of the scriptures where God declares to Moses" I am that I am “has varied in criticisms. The article goes on to defend the male divine in that it argues from religious studies, scriptures and published studies the male nature of God from a Christian’s standpoint. Arguing against them point by point and taking on certain criticisms and this article is a reaction to the threat of women's liberation and the wave of studies on the female Devine. The actions in this article reiterate that are taken by a certain political correctness when discussing gods are taken on by other religions to fall into this category. By removing the gender to the author figured that this would be confusing. Christianity as God is seen as the "Holy father" and Jesus as His "Only Son", since the establishment of early time, the author of this article argues that God has no gender and that even with the male divine argument, outside of sexual differentiation God exists. The male Devine attributes in God is due to the fatherhood personified in human worship of "Him and the female attributes come from the "female acts" that God is seen to perform according to the scriptures. Even then, the question of God's gender is this article while “made invalid" due to God's "other hood" still pronounces the "male Devine" being that "God" even from a Christian viewpoint due to the Jewish patriarchal nature of the Old Testament being that Jewish Theology is heavy on male transcendence. Male transcendence is heavy in theology. Judaism sees patriarchy as the mandate of giving life and of making reality - women need the male to “be heavy with child”, to look after the family, to carry the line from generation to generation. The Male Devine is argued by Thompson is just a manifestation of the "wholeness" that is "God the Holy Spirit" and "Spirits" do not inhibit a corporeal body so gender does not limit them. Male Devine is argued because it was God who commanded man to refer to him in the masculine as the scripture made it clear-According to Bible.com (2005), "Oh Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potted; and we all are the work of they hand. Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, “He made me not”; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, ‘He hath no understanding’'" (Isaiah 64:8; 29:16). The article concludes that it is not any mortal's prerogative to question what God commanded making the “male divine”, according to the author a “God ordained belief” from a Christian standpoint. Reference: Ben Thompson, P. (2000, March). Is God Male' Retrieved February 21 , 2011, from Apologetics Press: tp://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2167 Bible.com. (2005). Online Bible Church. Retrieved from http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp