Dear friend,

Thanks for the question.

We call God Father because Jesus taught us to. While it is true, God the Father is not male, He is transcendent, which is an existential that is reified in the male form. That is why Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, the Incarnate Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, took on male flesh in his human nature.

The male form expresses an unseen truth about reality: God transcends the created world and imbues it with life from without. He is not immanent or simply part of the created universe, a soul or energy that belongs to the universe, but rather a distinct un-contingent reality, the fundamental reality on which creation depends.

Just as the male person enters the female in the conjugal act to bring a positive fecundity, so does God enter creation with His Own Divine Life. These physical symbols express the truth about our relationship to God. So unlike pantheistic religions, that posit that God is merely a force within nature, and thereby they usually have female deities, we following the teaching of Christ who claimed:

Peace,

Bob Kirby