# Is God asexual? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378 "2005-08-10T01:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/21 "2005-08-10T16:02:23Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Although some religions use the pronoun “He” when addressing God, there is no sex as we know it in the spiritual world. The reason is simple, there are no physical bodies. Spiritual entities are energy, and can take different forms, but sex is not needed, same for eating, drinking, breathing. etc. Mark Twain would disagree with you on this, and I trust the Shadow of Twain’s far more then I trust what you pulled out of your ass. > [@Samuel Clemens](#): > > First of all, I recall to your attention the extraordinary fact with which I began. To wit, that the human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys – yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will risk life, reputation, everything – even his queer heaven itself – to make good that opportunity and ride it to the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combined, yet it is actually as I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes its place. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/22 "2005-08-10T16:21:08Z")
Bippy: > [@](#): > > Is not much of the ideas of the Judaic God borrowed from Mithras / Mitra , whom was a male deity of ancient Persia. Not that I’m aware of. Even the Wiki article you linked to doesn’t mention any claim of such connection. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/23 "2005-08-10T16:31:22Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Is not much of the ideas of the Judaic God borrowed from [Mithras / Mitra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra) , whom was a male deity of ancient Persia. I agree with this. The way I see it, there have been various archetypes of gods. All descend from the same kind of thinking. Basically, Group “A” holds a vision of a god. "Group “C” wants to integrate members of “A”, so they take aspects of “A”, and integrate it into their own god. If only group “C” survives, than god “C” could really be said to be a form of god “A”. It doesn’t matter if the descendants of group “C” doesn’t acknowledge the fact, or if they ignore parts of “A”’'s qualities. Aspects of “A” are very likely to sneak back into the mythology of “C”, anyway. No cite needed for Asterah being the consort of YahooWahoo/Ra/Mithras, just common sense, and an ability to see patterns. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/24 "2005-08-10T16:43:26Z")
Lotsa people here trying to assign (or deny) a gender to God, which seems kinda off the topic to me. What does gender have to do with sexuality? ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/25 "2005-08-10T17:24:25Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Lotsa people here trying to assign (or deny) a gender to God, which seems kinda off the topic to me. What does gender have to do with sexuality? The word “asexual” has multiple meanings that include both “lacking gender” and “lacking interest in sex.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/26 "2005-08-10T18:02:35Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Lotsa people here trying to assign (or deny) a gender to God, which seems kinda off the topic to me. What does gender have to do with sexuality? Actually, most of our languages do assign a gender to The God, specifically the masculine gender; but then again my native language assigns a masculine gender to trains and a feminine to locomotives so that’s not always reliable. And of course one of the major western religious tradition assigns to The God a very obvious specifically masculine Gender Role. However, not being a physical being, he/she/it does not have a sex nor a sexual identity, or rather encompasses and transcends all sexualities and identities. (BTW, for purposes of my writings, “gender” is a linguistic/social construct, that in IE languages is linked with “sex” which is the biological trait and process involved in reproduction.) Of course, in the case of mainstream **Christians** , one hypostasis of The God is identified as the “father” of a “son” (another hypostasis of the same Godhead anyway) that he caused to be born of a woman, so that is a Masculine Gender Role – not sexual since no actual sex would have been involved in that theology. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/27 "2005-08-10T18:14:25Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Not that I’m aware of. Even the Wiki article you linked to doesn’t mention any claim of such connection. The cite I have is in a book at home about comparative religion that I don’t even remember the name of, sorry. But this links into the theories of Zorocastrian influence on early Judaic religion. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/28 "2005-08-10T20:16:37Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > The word “asexual” has multiple meanings that include both “lacking gender” and “lacking interest in sex.” Just because God has no gender doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t like getting its all-powerful freak on. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/29 "2005-08-10T22:15:26Z")
> [@spingears](#): > > IMHO Anyone too lazy to make at least one simple search deserves to be left in the dark. Anyone too lazy to read the Forum rules that specify no direct personal insults deserves to be left out of the Forum. This would also go for such statements as: > [@Scott Plaid](#): > > then I trust what you pulled out of your ass. (You would not want us to all line up and mock your inability to spell the word _than_.) [/Moderator Mode] ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/30 "2005-08-10T22:16:58Z")
True, **Cervaise.** And I’m sure sex with a transcendental being would never be the same twice. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/31 "2005-08-10T23:32:18Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > God, as understood by all the major monotheistic religions, is not a physical being. Actually, The LDS church (those Mormon guys) are of the opinion that, yes, God has a physical body, and that, yes, it is male. They maintain this is supported by eyewhitness testimony, too. Of course, wether you consider the mormons a major religion or not is your own business. ---
**Author:** ![MaceMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@MaceMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaceMan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/32 "2005-08-11T06:37:36Z")
In mainstream Christianity, God is neither male nor female. Of course, God is not a sexual being, because sex is a biological function, not a spiritual one. According to [this site](http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/marriageinheaven.html): > [@](#): > > Contrary to the Mormon view of heaven, it doesn’t seem that people in heaven will be either male or female. Jesus was asked a complicated question about heaven by the Sadducees (a religious sect that did not believe in the resurrection of the dead) that directly leads us to this conclusion. The Sadducees gave a scenario of a woman who married 7 men (sequentially, since they all died prematurely) in her lifetime. They asked whose wife she would be in heaven. Jesus answered: "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God. "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. (Matthew 22:29-30), Also, the Apostle Paul tells us that, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) This suggests that in heaven, we will lose our sexual natures, because these distinctions become meaningless. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/33 "2005-08-11T16:38:19Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > I’m sure sex with a transcendental being would never be the same twice. Well, it might be, but it could make you think it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378/34 "2005-08-11T16:51:51Z")
How Heloise and Abelard of you! Next, are you gonna ask if God has a penis? Or a bellybutton? And is so, is he circumcised? Does he pee too? Or is it just foe show? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-asexual/316378.md?page=1)