Is the Holy Spirit God the Mother? Final Conclusion

1.     While the Holy Spirit as Mother is not explicit in Scripture, it is implicit. God revealed Himself as a Father. Notably, Jesus did not reveal God to be “like a Father”. He revealed him to be “the Father”. That is who He is. Why couldn’t the Holy Spirit be God the Mother? God declared from Genesis that his image is male and female in a marriage relationship, and the One who declares that Jesus reveals who He is – the Father.

2. Where in creation is there an example of the Trinity? Something that reveals that is who God is? Christians struggle to find something in creation that can come close to showing God as a Trinity: 1 God in 3 persons. Yet do we need to look any farther than our own parents to see a glimpse of the image of God? Am I putting God in a box? Or taking God at His Word about who He says He is? God said from the beginning that a man and a woman in a marriage relationship is, literally, His image. If this is the case, which makes more sense? A two-person God of Love, God the Father and God the Mother (the Holy Spirit), as reflected in godly marriage relationships, or, a 3-person male Trinity that Christians struggle to use creation to describe? And yet, God reveals Himself – who He is – clearly in creation.

3. I think a two-person God of Love, God the Father and God the Mother, is the most biblically sound and logical conclusion for who God is given who God has revealed Himself to be in Scripture and in His creation. 

Therefore, I believe God is Father and Mother, and the Holy Spirit is God the Mother.

Note: if you still doubt the validity of the Holy Spirit as the feminine nature of God even with all of the Scriptural evidence, please ask yourself why you doubt. God also reveals Himself through creation – humans and animals alike are created male and female. Are women less capable of reflecting God than men? The fully masculine Trinity is decidedly NOT the image of God: one man and one woman united in partnership together are. God does not favor one gender or the other: God favors both equally. Both Scripture and creation are a witness to this. The idea that God is 1 in 3 male persons is not a reflection of the God Scripture reveals and was not an idea from God.

To my unitarian brothers and sisters, please reconsider your perspective that the Holy Spirit is not a person and is not God.

To all my Christian brothers and sisters, please consider embracing the forgotten biblical truth that God is 2 in 1, Father and Holy Spirit, our Mother (John 3:6).

I use the word “forgotten” intentionally, as the Holy Spirit, the divine feminine, is, as demonstrated, an early Church historical belief backed up by the Old and New Testament. I am not bringing something new to the table, but something very old, since the beginning. If God did not care about being known as Father and Mother, He would not have made it so clear in His Word and in His creation. This is not a peripheral issue as this speaks to the very essence of who God is. Again, John 17:3 says that knowing God is “eternal life”, according to Jesus. As this is part of knowing and understanding God, this is part of eternal life. I do not mean to say belief in the Holy Spirit as Mother is in any way a salvation issue, simply that any deeper understanding of who God is, in itself, life-giving.

Further, the belief in the divine feminine has practical, gospel implications for the life of the Church, as this belief about the Holy Spirit firmly backs up what Paul and the other New Testament writers, and Jesus himself, have said and practiced about God’s intent for men and women. The Church should aim for God’s ideal in all churches: equal partnership, equal “ruling” (Genesis 1:28), between men and women.

In the Church of God “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). Jesus prayed in John 17:20-21, “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe you have sent me.” It cannot be overemphasized that the unity of the Church is directly correlated to the Church’s gospel witness in the world. Jesus explicitly states that if the Church is one, the entire world will believe in Jesus, and therefore have eternal life. Unity between men and women, built on the biblical truths of how men and women should operate together, is essential for unity in the Church as a whole. This unity can only fully exist, per Galatians 3:28, when there is not hierarchy between men and women but co-equal partnership as God intended.

May God bless you and may God’s kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.