For Christians ... If God made humans in his own image why are there 2 sexes ?

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surely god has to be either one or the other ?? otherwise this would make everyone have both male and female parts !! if god was one then where did the other male/female form come from ???
 
When God said 'let us make man in our image" He was speaking of the three in one. In God there is God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In man there is body, soul and spirit. He was saying that man is to be created as a tri-part being just as He is.
 
The answer to the question about why God is referred to in masculine terms in the Bible really has only one answer: This is the way God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. God is never described with sexual characteristics in the Scriptures, but He does consistently describe Himself in the masculine gender.

While God contains all the qualities of both male and female genders, He has chosen to present Himself with an emphasis on masculine qualities of fatherhood, protection, direction, strength, etc. Metaphors used to describe Him in the Bible include: King, Father, Judge, Husband, Master, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

One famous Christian scholar, C. S. Lewis, has suggested that gender is far deeper than our human distinctions reveal. He suggests that God is so masculine that we all are feminine in relation to Him. If this is true, it might explain why the church is referred to as the bride of Christ, though it is composed of both men and women.

There are those who would like to blur this emphasis in some of the newer Bible translations, but it is very dangerous to tamper with the way God has chosen to reveal Himself. He most certainly does not intend to minimize women, since men and women are revealed as being made in His image and are of equal value to Him. But it remains that He is Father, not Mother, and even in the Incarnation chose to come to us as a man, Jesus Christ.

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I'm not christian but I think I can answer this one. It's reference to Descartes concepts of duality. Their god is both male and female, and for those two to be able to work harmoniously together, yet in non-divine beings, then the split occurs. Though I suspect this question is an attempt at a dig. It can also be assumed to mean the non-physical manifestation of the human, IE the soul.
 
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