“THERE are no voiceless people. THERE are no voiceless communities. THERE is simply an unwillingness to allow others to speak. THERE is simply an unwillingness to hear the pain and the critique of those who have been marginalized and silenced. In KEEPING with the best of WOMANIST PRACTICES, how can you be a megaphone for the disinherited?”

– Dr. Yolanda Pierce

Today I want to be a megaphone for women and look at the concept that God is female. Oh, I know…you probably highly doubt that this is going to go anywhere. First let me do my thing – Give You My Story:

Story

Some time frame in 2018/2019, I was substitute teaching in our Sunday School class. I can not recall the topic, but I do know that I spoke about the concept of God being a woman. “God Our Mother” is the exact term I used in my lesson. How was it received? Crickets. However, I do believe I got a response from our Pastor at the time who sat in our Sunday School class that day. The term “God Our Father” seemed to magically appear in the Sermon that day.  

End Story

Now, I am quite positive I do not need to make-argument that God is referred to as “Our Father.” I don’t need to make-argument that God is referred to as Him. I don’t have to make-argument that God is referred to in masculine terms to describe God using an anthropomorphic tool. 

However, when someone refers to God as a woman-LOOK OUT! 

Here is my proof text that supports this eclectic thinking!

Mathew 23:37 & Luke 13:34 NIV – Jerusalem is the City of God’s dwelling place of Peace. God is described as a mother hen. 

Job 38:29 NIV – God refers to woman attributes in reminding Job who is the Creator and who the world belongs to. True wisdom is in those who acknowledge their smallness in comparison to the Creator. 

Hosea 13:8 NIV – God is described like a bear robbed of her cubs.

Numbers 11:12 NIV – Moses refers to God as the conceiver, the nursing mother. 

Isaiah 42:14 NIV God is praised like a woman in labor.

Isaiah 49:15 – The Lord says, “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”

Isaiah 66:13 – The Lord says, “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.” 

So I ask. Why can’t we refer to God as a woman? God is the Creator of both woman and man. Do you not think God is the root of both? God created us in his ← (There it is again and you can’t avoid it!) image. Do you not think God’s image was created in representation of both woman and man?

This concept I have written about today is, in part, supported by the book Theology of the Womb by Christy Bauman.

And when we research and investigate concepts and information that is provided to us, we should always use multiple non-biased support resources as part of our final analysis. 

Is your View of God Eclectic?