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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]
[9] The Statement presents a complementarian view of gender and sexuality. [1] [8] The Nashville Statement: Affirms that God designed marriage as a lifelong union between male and female, and that marriage "is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church";
While complementarianism has been the norm for years, some Christians have moved toward egalitarian views. As the nature of gender roles within societies changes, religious views on gender roles in marriage change as well. In complementarianism, the relationship between man and woman is compared to the one between Christ and the Church.
Sacred Jewish texts reflect multiple genders. In a New York Times column, Rabbi Elliot Kukla, who is transgender nonbinary, writes that Judaism's most sacred tests reflect a multiplicity of gender ...
[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]). The masculine gender in Hebrew can be used for objects with no inherent gender, as well as objects with masculine natural gender, and so it is widely used, attributing the masculine ...
Gender symbols on a public toilet in Switzerland. A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics.
Polytheistic religions, however, almost always attribute gender to their gods, though a few notable divinities are associated with various forms of epicene characteristics—gods that manifest alternatingly as male and female, gods with one male and one female "face", and gods whose most distinctive characteristic is their unknown gender.
Gender identity (despite what the gender binary suggests) does not have to match one's sex assigned at birth, and it can be fluid rather than fixed and change over time.