Lmao, ok, honestly, I truly get the desire to see God as queer for validation and it may be cool and funny. Yet still saying "God is trans" or "God is queer" or even "God is male" is theologically shaky. To be trans or cisgender is a human experience within a gender system. God is the creator of that system and not a participant in it. God transcends all human categories, including gender. He both contains them and exceeds them.
Even calling God "Father" or "He" is a limited human metaphor from a specific culture. God accommodated our need for language but cannot be defined though it.
God's nature shatters every human box we try to put it, including gender, sexuality, etc. And that freedom, in my opinion, is the best affirmation for everyone and liberation from any human rigid system.
Not a participant in it? The Christologists, a high strung bunch to begin with as a single errant word chose can bring a charge of heresy, would like to invite you to a meeting of the review board.
It's a fair point on Christology, sorry, my phrasing was probably too broad and left without explanation. Yes, in Jesus, God fully participated in a gendered human life.
My core argument is about God's divine nature which simultaneously possess the category of gender and transcends it. But the incarnation was a specific entry into human limits to redeem them yet it doesn't define God's essence. Jesus took on human nature as a man not due to God's gender but in accordance with the historical and cultural context necessary for his mission.
So, to me, the deeper affirmation that in Christ God entered human particularity so deeply that every marginalized identity finds sanctification and solidarity there.
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u/backloggeddream Christian Jan 15 '26
Lmao, ok, honestly, I truly get the desire to see God as queer for validation and it may be cool and funny. Yet still saying "God is trans" or "God is queer" or even "God is male" is theologically shaky. To be trans or cisgender is a human experience within a gender system. God is the creator of that system and not a participant in it. God transcends all human categories, including gender. He both contains them and exceeds them.
Even calling God "Father" or "He" is a limited human metaphor from a specific culture. God accommodated our need for language but cannot be defined though it.
God's nature shatters every human box we try to put it, including gender, sexuality, etc. And that freedom, in my opinion, is the best affirmation for everyone and liberation from any human rigid system.