Via @Miisaakan in Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans Allies
God = One or Three but never Two = He must be non-binary:
“As noted in the previous chapter, Sarah Coakley reminds us that we worship a God who is never binary.”
“God can be one or three but never two, which means, she argues, that binary gender roles (but not binary gender itself) are challenged by our non-binary God.”
A Non-binary God challenges binary understandings of Gender:
“I argue that a non-binary God equally challenges our attachment to a binary understanding of gender itself.”
“To acknowledge that the trans* community is part of God’s creation is to acknowledge that our attempt to simplify humans into two and only two distinct and unchangeable genders no longer describes the full human experience.”
“Actually, it never really did, but at this point in our history we are being confronted with the breakdown of one of our most dearly held binaries: male/female.”
God is not a ‘father’ in the normal sense, because he didn’t impregnate a female:
“So in what ways is the Fatherhood of God similar to human fatherhood, and in what ways is it different? Human fatherhood has changed over human history, and the roles of fathers in the lives of their children have not remained static.”
“Does that imply that the relationship between the Father and the Son in the Trinity is also changing? Unlike human fathers, the Father in the Trinity did not impregnate a female deity to father the Son.”
