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Nowhere in the Holy Bible is it implied God is anything other than a dude. It's always father this and king that when referring to God.
Unless you mean Joseph is non-binary? In which case, again, no. He's just a cuckold who didn't ever consummate his marriage to Mary, and they both died as virgins. Which is honestly the most unbelievable part of the whole story.
God is three entities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That sounds like an extension of the nonbinarism of Two Spirit to me.
If you read a modern English version of the Bible, you have three entities in one which all are all consistently identified as masculine. Trying to treat God as non-binary with regard to modern English translations is more mental gymnastics than arguing why Kris Dreemurr isn't non-binary.
Given this is all fiction, it's safe to say that death of the author is in play here, namely that 99.99% of the modern Christians who'd get offended at non-binary people existing would also not think of God as non-binary even after pondering on it, because their culture and holy book categorically treat God as masculine.
I don’t dispute the male attributes. The superposition of gendered entities is what someone could argue makes God not just “a male” but rather “multiple males in one”. Is there any history of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) identifying as some level of not-straight on the basis of their DID? Are there any other analogous cases that have been linked to identifying as not one of the two main genders due to a level of plurality?
We do not have DID, but we are plural. Some of us are female, some male, some nonbinary.
Each of us identifies as our own respective gender. But what gender is a community? We submit that even groups consisting of a single gender are not considered to have a group gender. A sorority's membership may be entirely comprised of women, but is the sorority itself considered female?
Ignoring for a second all the controversy around the term "two-spirit", even if we say that two-spirit is the extremely Western concept – detached from indigenous culture – of a male and female in the same body (or even just generically two genders in one body), that still doesn't apply, because all of the entities are male. In set theory, if you keep adding the same element to the set over and over, the set doesn't change.
Moreover, even if there were the kind of history you're talking about, I'm not sure why dissociative identity disorder is being brought up here, because that categorically isn't how God as multiple entities works within the fiction of the Bible. We see God and Jesus talking to each other back and forth multiple times, and that's not how DID works. DID – a controversial diagnosis – isn't a sitcom where two flatmates hang out inside your mind and banter. You're dissociating so badly that you lose continuity, but God is clearly able to work as all three just fine at the same time.
Not so sure about any of that. Sounds pretty non-binary to me.
Is it possible for a concept of binary gender to exist in a species which has only ever had one member?
That is a fascinating approach. What does it eat? Where does it live? What are its habits? I strongly suspect Jane Goodall is on the case, but I don't expect to hear back from her anytime soon...
I recall (but am not up to finding at this hour) one spot in the OT where someone is talking about God feeding mankind with the milk from his breast. And I think he “birthed” ice and snow in the book of Job?
But in this case, the Holy Spirit is the one that “came on Mary.”
God the father and God the son are masculine, but God the spirit is without gender.
Also, Jesus had brothers in the story, and they don’t seem to be supernatural beings, so I think it was consummated eventually.
Jesus had brothers in the apocryphal books, that are not usually recognized as part of the Bible (the church says because they have been written later than the four main ones)
IIRC, the virgin Mary stuff is mostly Catholic sanctification stuff. They wanted to make her "pure" so they said she was a virgin.
If I remember correctly, there are older pieces of the Bible that come from a time where Jahve was only one of a duality of Gods, male god Jahve and a female god that later got incorporated into Jahve.
Shady reference that just partially overlaps
Man, imagine being cucked by the actual GOD himself, like, the holy father?!
I'm honestly surprised that all the incel NEETs haven't formed a religion around that, I mean come on! At least that would be sociologically interesting. But no, we just get that Andrew Taint fellow instead.
Jesus had siblings. There is even a record of one, John, being executed by being thrown from a high place.