I'm trying to make (though I'm not sure why) a distinction between Male and Masculine/ Female and Feminine.
Why do sailors call their boats "she"? Is there anything to that (especially since it may not be universal) -- anything unFreudian?
But one reason for the attempt is that While I guess you could have masculine and feminine angels, I'd tend to argue against male and female ones, since the only evidence would be those roly-poly ... ah forget it.
I don't know the angelology stuff real good. I guess the feminine ones stay home and, you know, iron the linens for the celestial altar? But the ones one hears about (except on flakey TV shows or whatever) seem to be of a distinctly guy frame of gender.
Certainly the Incarnation is kind of half procreation - As Chalcedon raises its ugly head - at least from Mary's point of view. But eternal begetting of the Son does not lead to an infant God, but to an infant who is God. Now THERE's a nice distinction!
Ask me again when the coffee reaches my head.
Well, just for the sake of argument, it looks like God pretty much just zapped Adam and Eve into their genders by fiat, so I was figuring He could have just done the same thing with angels. :)
Why do sailors call their boats "she"? Is there anything to that (especially since it may not be universal) -- anything unFreudian?
Probably because male captains thought of their boats as beautiful so it seemed fitting to give them a beautiful feminine name. I have no idea. :)
Certainly the Incarnation is kind of half procreation - As Chalcedon raises its ugly head - at least from Mary's point of view. But eternal begetting of the Son does not lead to an infant God, but to an infant who is God. Now THERE's a nice distinction!
I'll go with that. Well said. :)