What If God Was A Woman?

It’s often said that God is neither male nor female, but addressing God as it doesn’t always work out well, as many God postulator don’t like it. Assuming God is not a man, what if God was a woman?

I’ve heard people talk about the spirit of God in Genesis chapter 1:2 carrying a feminine connotation; however, not much is being said about that as people’s attention has been diverted from that being a thing while the word has developed into a person and a god. But what if God was a woman?

The God Concept

There was a time in my life when I began asking questions about the things I held dear to. One of the questions I asked was about who created the word God. No one answered. The one who responded only took note. But is it that difficult?

As it appears, the word God is a social construct that can be viewed in two ways, the God of the scriptures or God as a word for communication. Whichever one you go with, God is a social construct that has developed from time to time, probably as a result of ignorance or people trying to explain the phenomena that happened around them.

Historically and mythologically, the attribution of certain anthropomorphic attributes to some existing God being was not exclusively to a he or she but to they and them. However, the development of the God concept has brought us to a point where God is basically addressed as a he, with little to no acknowledgment of the she God, the goddess.

So, God is more masculine than feminine because of what? Inferiority? Who made it so? God or man? What if God was a woman?

What If God Was a Woman?

In the year 1997 was the Undiscovered Soul, an album from Richie Sambora. In it was a song titled, If God was a woman, and when I listened to it, it was full of questions about God being a woman.

I’m not a lyricist, but I will say the lyrics were well thought through and relatable, with the if pointing to a possibility that if there was a God, they could be a woman.

Richie started with the line as follows, “If God was a woman, with long blond hair, would you kneel at her altar and offer her prayer?”

He then went on to say, “Could she be your addiction, Could she make you sin if God was a woman and you were her man?” hmmm… Sounds like a Christian who is married to God, but in the reverse, as they are the bride while their God is the groom. They make excuses for his actions, and those could be seen as him making them sin. So?

Well, Sambora wanted to know if people would be impressed if God was a woman who showed up in a lovely red dress and in a high heel. He asked if they would give their donations, or perhaps tithes and offerings, if they found out God was a woman, or if they would draw the line.

He asked about yielding to her temptations and whether or not she would appear as an angel or a devil in disguise. They are people who don’t know that their God is the devil to another who believes in another God. Some see them (God and the Devil) as one and the same. But that wasn’t the crux of the matter for me. So what was it?

It was when Sambora asked, “When she left in the morning, would you lose your religion or kiss your faith goodbye, goodbye?” So I ask you, What if God was a woman? would you do that?

Many Christians hold to the view of a three-but-one God. At the very least, we know the second, God the son, to be a man. Otherwise, the God appears to be. The first, God the Father, could be without a body and neither here nor there, but the third, God the Spirit, could just be a woman. Otherwise, it appears to be.

Before these adaptations came to be, there were female gods, called goddesses, who could be as powerful as the male ones in ancient myths. We have Tiamat in the creation story of Enuma Elish, known as the oldest creation story in the world.

Also, we have Maat in the Kemeth, the Goddess of justice and balance. Moses could have learned a thing or two about her if he had been in Egypt before he got the Ten Commandments. But who knows? Well, Maat got my interest for some reasons, which I might present in another discussion.

What if God was a woman? would you worship her? If God was a woman, would women have been treated the way they were and some are being treated today? Would the world we live in be different if God was a woman? Perhaps, but think about that for a moment.