Personifying God means giving him inanimate objects and human or near human characteristics. Arguably, different religions perceive God to be of different nature, but what remains certain to all the religions is the fact that they all view God to be a male. This paper will support the argument that religions will remain the same even when God is personified as a female.
Remarkably, many religions and people who believe in God think of God as a male, however, they have no credible evidence to support their claims, there is no prove that God posses any anatomic or genetic male features. Furthermore, the attributes given to God are not explicitly male, some attributes and qualities of God that he is loving, caring, knowing and supernatural are qualities that can be possed by a female too (Plantinga, & Wolterstorff, 1983). Debatably, the qualities attached to God are not uniquely male characteristics; females too may have these qualities, it is therefore important to note that religions will not be different if God is personified as a female.
There is no instance in the Bible or the Quran where God has referred himself as a male. The idea that God is a male is based on human thinking rather than substantiation. Arguably, attributing God as a female will neither change our religious believes nor our attribute towards him. This is because it will not be magical for a female to be supernatural, an attribute that is normally associated with God. Being feminize does not mean that you are inferior, personifying God as a female will therefore change nothing in our believe towards him.
In conclusion, it is of great importance to understand that females can posses similar or even higher attributes than males, the perception that God is female will change nothing since females can become superior too. Religions will therefore remain the same even when God is personified as female.
References
Plantinga, A., & Wolterstorff, N. (1983). Faith and rationality: Reason and belief in God. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
