In the Image of God: Male and Female

Evangelicals affirm the orthodox belief that God is not sexual and is neither male nor female—or perhaps better, that God is imaged in both male and female human beings together. We affirm that doctrine readily, and then go ahead and depict God as male. Not “mostly” as male, the way the Bible indeed does, but always as male. As a rule, it seems, evangelicals never depict God as female, even metaphorically and rarely even as transcending the categories of male and female. But the Bible does. Where are the women? More basically, where is the female, the feminine, the “not male” in the Bible, in our churches and families, and in God?

--John G. Stackhouse Jr., Finding a Home for Eve


Sometimes we fear to do what our Lord has done: equate God with the feminine:
I am like a weaned child (Psa. 131:2)
"You must be born from above." --Jesus to Nicodemus
"I would have gathered you to me as a hen gathers her chicks." --Jesus to Jerusalem
"Born of God..." --1 John 5:1
Parable of the woman with a lost coin in which the woman represents God (Luke 15:9)