Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-28908658-20190217001843/@comment-3568954-20190219061804

Gilgamesh85 wrote: Actionmanrandell wrote: many of the angels in hebrew text are refereed to as male. not one is ever referred to as female

As far as I remember, there is no clear indication on the angels' gender, and they are usually considered asexuals The angels being referred as male is (I think, I'm no language expert, I'm going by what I remember from High School) a "mistranslation", in the sense that there is no genderless pronoun in ancient hebrew, and so they used the male pronoun both for God and the angels.

In my language there is even an idiomatic expression that translates to "Talking about the angels' gender" that (many thanks to wikipedia) has the same value of the english "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin"

But... we are not here to talk about the angels' gender xD My reasoning on the tailed beasts stays, since they are being of pure chakra with no use of a reproductive organ, it's likely they are genderless The Greek word for “angel” in the New Testament, angelos, is in the masculine form. In fact, a feminine form of angelos does not exist. There are three genders in grammar—masculine (he, him, his), feminine (she, her, hers), and neuter (it, its). Angels are never referred to in any gender other than masculine. In the many appearances of angels in the Bible, never is an angel referred to as “she” or “it.” Furthermore, when angels appeared, they were always dressed as human males (Genesis 18:2, 16; Ezekiel 9:2). No angel ever appears in Scripture dressed as a female. The only named angels in the Bible—Michael, Gabriel, Lucifer—had male names and all are referred to in the masculine. “Michael and his angels” (Revelation 12:7); “Mary was greatly troubled at his [Gabriel’s] words” (Luke 1:29); “Oh, Lucifer, son of the morning” (Isaiah 14:12). Other references to angels are always in the masculine gender. In Judges 6:21, the angel holds a staff in “his” hand. Zechariah asks an angel a question and reports that “he” answered (Zechariah 1:19). The angels in Revelation are all spoken of as “he” and their possessions as “his” (Revelation 10:1, 5; 14:19; 16:2, 4, 17; 19:17; 20:1). The confusion about genderless angels comes from a misreading of Matthew 22:30, which states that there will be no marriage in heaven because we “will be like the angels in heaven.” The fact that there will be no marriage has led some to believe that angels are “sexless” or genderless because (the thinking goes) the purpose of gender is procreation and, if there is to be no marriage and no procreation, there is no need for gender. But this is a leap that cannot be proven from the text. The fact that there is no marriage does not necessarily mean there is no gender. The many references to angels as males contradict the idea of genderless angels. Angels do not marry, but we can’t make the leap from “no marriage” to “no gender.”