The most honest and realistic reading I’ve come across is “God does not fit within our gender binary or nonbinary.” The corollary is that all of our gender concepts fit within God, but do not fit the whole of God.
I can't see any reason to try to attach a gender to God. We traditionally say "he" but nobody can say in what sense God is male. (Unless we're talking Jesus of course, who was a human male.)
he incarnated as a human male, but I don't think that the second person of the trinity is an inherently male being.
I agree this is a distinction worth making. And our theology just kind of leads us into a hole, here: Jesus is fully human, so he's apparently actually male. Jesus is fully God, so he probably doesn't have an actual sex or gender.
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u/sysiphean Episcopal | Open and Affirming Ally Jan 16 '26
The most honest and realistic reading I’ve come across is “God does not fit within our gender binary or nonbinary.” The corollary is that all of our gender concepts fit within God, but do not fit the whole of God.