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The first words of the Old Testament are B'reshit bara Elohim—"In the beginning God created." [1] The verb bara (created) agrees with a masculine singular subject.[citation needed] Elohim is used to refer to both genders and is plural; it has been used to refer to both Goddess (in 1 Kings 11:33), and God (1 Kings 11:31; [2]).
LDS God has a physical body, and thus is not only identified as being a man, but has a physical sex, that being male. [22] The same is for Jesus, God's son, but not for the Holy Spirit, which has a spiritual form. [22] God is also married to the Heavenly Mother. It is unknown if she has a physical body or defined sex like God.
Trinity – used as a synonym for God, in order to call attention to the three distinct persons which share the single divine nature or essence. They are traditionally referred to as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, though some modern sects prefer more gender-neutral terms such as Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Rabbi Meir says this term differs from "Androgynos" in that the term refers to "sometimes a man and sometimes a woman". Unlike the Androgynos, the Tumtum's gender can be revealed to be either male ...
Gender in Bible translation concerns various issues, such as the gender of God and generic antecedents in reference to people. Bruce Metzger states that the English language is so biased towards the male gender that it restricts and obscures the meaning of the original language, which was more gender-inclusive than a literal translation would convey. [1]
The LDS Church believes that before humans lived on earth, they existed spiritually, with a spirit body with defined gender, [28] and that the Holy Spirit had a similar body, but was to become a member of the three personage Godhead [29] (Godhead consisting of God, or Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost).
In Isaiah 62:5, God is compared to the bridegroom, and his people to the bride. "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." In Isaiah 63:16, God is directly addressed and called "our Father".
God said, in the book of Deuteronomy, “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God." [ 18 ] The book intends to set a specific idea of what a man and women should, and should not wear based on their gender, or they will disappoint the Lord.