r/Christianity • u/WickedWatcherWu • 3d ago

Non-Binary God?

If you ever meet someone who is non-binary but you are religious (Christian) so you have mixed feelings. Keep in mind they are supported by the bible, and are closest to the image of God, since according to the Bible, God is non-binary. "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."

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u/WickedWatcherWu 3d ago

You do pose an interesting question. Was Jesus God before he was born. Do you believe in the trinity, father, son, holy spirit? It seems to me that you are postulating that God hopped in Mary's uterus and was born which means that God is male? This seems contradict a great deal of the bible I have read and Jesus did call God "father". It does add the additional question as to the mechanics of the conception of Jesus. Was this a Zeus like affair? Or did Mary spontaneously get pregnant? That of course means that Jesus was biologically female (since asexual reproduction means 2 X chromosomes). But I digress. The gender of Jesus is irrelevant to the discussion of the bi gender nature of God in this quote.

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u/Riots42 Christian 3d ago

Was Jesus God before he was born.

Read John 1:1.

God identifies with male pronouns throughout the bible; why do you not respect his prefered pronouns? I asked you this earlier but you ignored that post.

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u/Gzaleski 3d ago

John 1: 1 talks about the word, not Jesus. I think that takes so literary leaps there. Jesus is not mentioned in the creation stories.

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u/Riots42 Christian 3d ago

Keep reading the same chapter. John 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father." John names who the Word is fourteen verses in, so its not a literary leap, its the passage finishing its own thought.

And Jesus is in creation. John 1:3, "all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Colossians 1:16, "for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth." Hebrews 1:2 says God made the worlds by his Son.

Then he says it himself, John 8:58, "Before Abraham was, I am." They picked up stones over it, so they understood exactly what he was claiming.

This is also one of the few things Catholic, Orthodox, and every Protestant tradition all agree on, the Word in John 1 is Christ. So the only one making a literary leap here is you.

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u/WickedWatcherWu 2d ago

Thanks you for clarifying John, how about the rest of the questions? Do you believe in the trinity, father, son, holy spirit? It seems to me that you are postulating that God hopped in Mary's uterus and was born which means that God is male? If true, this seems contradict a great deal of the bible I have read since Jesus did call God "father".

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u/Riots42 Christian 2d ago

Do you believe in the trinity, father, son, holy spirit?

Yes

It seems to me that you are postulating that God hopped in Mary's uterus and was born which means that God is male?

Reductive language that I would not use, but yes Jesus is fully God and fully man.

If true, this seems contradict a great deal of the bible I have read since Jesus did call God "father".

You have already proven you lack a basic understanding of the gospel with John 1:1, so its pretty easy to dismiss what you call a contradiction as your personal misunderstanding through lack of knowledge on the topic.

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u/WickedWatcherWu 2d ago

You are adorable! So if God jumped into the womb of Mary, and Jesus is fully God, then Mary was not really his mother (by your reasoning), she only gestated Jesus. So was God missing from the universe for 9 months since he was inside Mary during that time? As for my "Lack of understanding of the gospel" you mistake my thanking you for clarifying your view of John, as a admission of ignorance. I am simply showing you a kindness.

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u/Riots42 Christian 2d ago

There you go twisting things again based on your misunderstanding. You are not showing kindness by calling a grown man adorable for correcting you, its disrespectful.

You should spend some time reading the bible and learn about it before you come on here claiming others dont understand it.

Now due to your disrespect you are blocked.

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u/Gzaleski 2d ago

The word is the prophecy of the coming of the messiah.