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Does God Have a Wife? Is God Married?
Does God have a wife? The Bible never names God’s wife or Yahweh’s wife. Male and female bear the image of the one God; Asherah and Heavenly Mother are not biblical teaching.
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Does God have a wife? No. The Bible never names God’s wife, and it never confesses Yahweh’s wife as doctrine. Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James VersionHear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James VersionOpen the Source says the LORD our God is one LORD. Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 44:6 · King James VersionThus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:6 · King James VersionOpen the Source says beside him there is no God. When Scripture uses marriage language of God, Israel or the church is the bride. That is metaphor for covenant faithfulness, not a second deity in heaven.
Key Points
- Genesis 1:26–27Genesis 1:26–27 · King James Version1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26–27 · King James VersionOpen the Source and Genesis 5:1–2Genesis 5:1–2 · King James Version5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
5:2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:1–2 · King James VersionOpen the Source say male and female are made in the image of God. The text names one God and never names a wife beside him. - Genesis 2:7Genesis 2:7 · King James Version
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 · King James VersionOpen the Source has the LORD God alone form the man from the dust. Genesis 2:21–22Genesis 2:21–22 · King James Version2:21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2:22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:21–22 · King James VersionOpen the Source has him take the woman from the man’s side. No divine consort appears in the forming of either. - Isaiah 54:5Isaiah 54:5 · King James Version
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isaiah 54:5 · King James VersionOpen the Source, Hosea 2:16–20Hosea 2:16–20 · King James Version2:16And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
2:17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
2:19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
2:20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Hosea 2:16–20 · King James VersionOpen the Source, Ephesians 5:25–32Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James Version5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James VersionOpen the Source, and Revelation 19:7Revelation 19:7 · King James VersionLet us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation 19:7 · King James VersionOpen the Source use husband-and-bride language for God’s covenant with his people. The people are the bride, not a goddess. - Matthew 22:30Matthew 22:30 · King James Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Matthew 22:30 · King James VersionOpen the Source says that in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. - Inscriptions at Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom speak of “Yahweh and his Asherah.” Deuteronomy 16:21Deuteronomy 16:21 · King James Version
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy 16:21 · King James VersionOpen the Source and 2 Kings 23:4–72 Kings 23:4–7 · King James Version23:4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
23:6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings 23:4–7 · King James VersionOpen the Source treat asherah poles as forbidden cult objects. The prophetic books do not confess a wife of the LORD. - Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 7:18 · King James Version
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:18 · King James VersionOpen the Source charges Judah with cakes to the queen of heaven. That is condemned popular worship, not authorized doctrine. - Latter-day Saints teach a Heavenly Mother. That claim is set out and answered in Do Latter-day Saints Believe in a Heavenly Mother?.
- Qur’an 6:101Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh International
[He is] Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife] and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing.
Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh InternationalOpen the Source and Qur’an 72:3 (Saheeh International) deny that God has a wife or companion. Christians agree there is no consort. They still confess the eternal Son without a goddess mother. See Can God Have a Son?.
Does God Have a Wife?
Searchers ask whether God has a wife, who God’s wife is, or whether Yahweh’s wife appears in the Bible. No verse names one. Claims about God’s wife usually point either to Asherah beside Yahweh in archaeology or to a Heavenly Mother in Latter-day Saint teaching. Claims about Yahweh’s wife usually mean the same Asherah question: inscriptions that say “Yahweh and his Asherah,” read by some as a consort and by others as a cult object. The Bible’s own voice refuses a goddess beside the LORD. The sections below take those claims in turn.
Does “Male and Female” in Genesis Mean God Is Married?
Some readers take Genesis 1:26–27Genesis 1:26–27 · King James Version1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26–27 · King James VersionOpen the Source and Genesis 5:1–2Genesis 5:1–2 · King James Version5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:1–2 · King James VersionOpen the Source to imply that God must himself be a married pair. The verses say God made humankind in his image, male and female. If both sexes image God, the argument goes, then deity must include a husband and a wife.
The text does not say that.
Genesis 1:26–27Genesis 1:26–27 · King James Version1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26–27 · King James VersionOpen the Source (1) has God say, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” and then, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Both the man and the woman bear the image of the one God. The noun and the pronouns stay with that one God. The passage never mentions a wife of God, a Mother in Heaven, or a second divine person of the opposite sex. Image here is what the creature receives from the Creator. It is not a mirror that forces God to be a sexual couple.
Genesis 5:1–2Genesis 5:1–2 · King James Version5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:1–2 · King James VersionOpen the Source (1) repeats the same frame: “In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” Again, male and female are the human pair. The likeness is God’s. No consort is introduced to explain why the woman shares the image.
Genesis 2:7Genesis 2:7 · King James VersionAnd the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 · King James VersionOpen the Source (1) then narrates the forming of the man: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” The agent is the LORD God alone. Genesis 2:21–22Genesis 2:21–22 · King James Version2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:21–22 · King James VersionOpen the Source (1) has the same LORD God cause a deep sleep, take a rib, and make the woman. There is no scene in which a divine wife helps fashion either body. If the claim that God is married were being taught by these chapters, this is where a wife would appear. She does not.
Reading a heavenly marriage into “male and female” imports a later tradition into the text instead of drawing the meaning out of the text. Exegesis stays with what Genesis says: one God, humankind in his image, man formed from dust, woman from the man’s side. The separate Latter-day Saint teaching of heavenly parents is treated in Do Latter-day Saints Believe in a Heavenly Mother?. That page quotes the church’s essay and the hymn. It does not claim Genesis 1:27 as proof of a married God, and Genesis itself does not supply that proof.
Does the Bible Ever Call God a Husband?
Yes, as covenant speech. Isaiah 54:5Isaiah 54:5 · King James VersionFor thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isaiah 54:5 · King James VersionOpen the Source (3) says, “For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name.” The “thy” is Zion. Hosea 2:16–20Hosea 2:16–20 · King James Version2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Hosea 2:16–20 · King James VersionOpen the Source (4) has the LORD say Israel will call him “Ishi” (my husband), and that he will betroth her to him forever. The unfaithful wife in Hosea is the people, not a goddess beside Yahweh.
In the New Testament the same figure continues. Ephesians 5:25–32Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James Version5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James VersionOpen the Source (8) compares Christ’s love for the church to a husband’s love for his wife, and says the two becoming one flesh is a great mystery concerning Christ and the church. Revelation 19:7Revelation 19:7 · King James VersionLet us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation 19:7 · King James VersionOpen the Source (9) and Revelation 21:2Revelation 21:2 · King James VersionAnd I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:2 · King James VersionOpen the Source speak of the marriage of the Lamb and the holy city prepared as a bride. The bride is the redeemed people. None of these texts installs a second deity as God’s spouse.
Do People Marry in Heaven?
Matthew 22:30Matthew 22:30 · King James VersionFor in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Matthew 22:30 · King James VersionOpen the Source (7) answers the Sadducees’ puzzle about a woman who had seven husbands: “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” Earthly marriage is not the pattern of the resurrection life. That sentence undercuts the idea that God’s own life is an eternal marriage of the kind humans know.
Who Was Asherah, and Did Yahweh Have a Wife?
Asherah (10) was a major mother goddess in the Canaanite world. At Ugarit (11) she appears as Athirat, consort of El and mother of the gods. Eighth-century Hebrew inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom include the phrase “Yahweh and his Asherah.” Scholars disagree whether that “Asherah” names the goddess as Yahweh’s consort or an asherah as a wooden cult object standing beside his shrine. William G. Dever’s Did God Have a Wife? (12) argues from archaeology that folk religion in Israel included a consort often identified with Asherah. Mark S. Smith’s The Early History of God (13) treats many biblical asherah references as a wooden cult symbol and reads “Yahweh and his asherah” in the inscriptions as that symbol in Yahweh’s cult, while holding that a goddess consort in the monarchy has not been demonstrated. Smith himself notes that the goddess-consort reading, held by Dever and others, is the majority view.
The Bible’s own voice is not neutral toward those practices. Deuteronomy 16:21Deuteronomy 16:21 · King James VersionThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy 16:21 · King James VersionOpen the Source (2) says, “Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.” 2 Kings 23:4–72 Kings 23:4–7 · King James Version23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings 23:4–7 · King James VersionOpen the Source (6) records Josiah removing the vessels made for Baal and for the grove (asherah), and breaking down the houses of the cult prostitutes where women wove hangings for the grove. Inscriptions show that some Israelites paired Yahweh with an asherah. The law and the reforming kings treat that pairing as disobedience, not as revelation.
So the historical question and the doctrinal question must stay distinct. Archaeology can show popular religion that the prophets opposed. It cannot rewrite Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James VersionHear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James VersionOpen the Source or Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 44:6 · King James VersionThus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:6 · King James VersionOpen the Source into a confession of a divine couple.
Who Is the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah?
Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 7:18 · King James VersionThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:18 · King James VersionOpen the Source (5) describes families in Judah making cakes to the queen of heaven and pouring drink offerings to other gods. Jeremiah 44:17–25Jeremiah 44:17–25 · King James Version44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Jeremiah 44:17–25 · King James VersionOpen the Source has the people insist they will keep burning incense to her, and Jeremiah answers that the LORD will punish that worship. Jeremiah’s charge is that this worship belongs to other gods. He does not introduce a Mother in Heaven whom the LORD endorses. The passage is evidence of condemned devotion, the same category as the asherah poles.
Do Latter-day Saints Say God Is Married?
Yes, in the form of heavenly parents. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Mother in HeavenMother in Heaven · English, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. This understanding is rooted in scriptural and prophetic teachings about the nature of God, our relationship to Deity, and the godly potential of men and women. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints.
Mother in Heaven · English, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsOpen the Source (14) essay teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother, and that members do not pray to Heavenly Mother. Doctrine and Covenants 132:19–20Doctrine and Covenants 132:1 · English, churchofjesuschrist.orgVerily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines—
Doctrine and Covenants 132:1 · English, churchofjesuschrist.orgOpen the Source (15) ties exaltation to eternal marriage in the new and everlasting covenant: a marriage sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise is promised glory that “shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever,” and verse 20 says, “Then shall they be gods.” That teaching, the hymn “O My Father,” and the biblical texts that say there is no God beside the LORD are covered at length in Do Latter-day Saints Believe in a Heavenly Mother?. Related claims about an embodied Father and exaltation are Does God the Father Have a Body of Flesh and Bones? and Do Mormons Believe They Will Become Gods?.
The Christian confession remains that God is one: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is no goddess beside the Father. The Trinity is that confession. A heavenly wife is not required for the Father to have an eternal Son, and it is not taught by Genesis 1:27.
Does Islam Say God Has a Wife?
No. Qur’an 6:101Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh International[He is] Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife] and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing.
Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh InternationalOpen the Source (16), Saheeh International: “How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife] and He created all things?” Qur’an 72:3, Saheeh International: “He has not taken a wife or a son.” Christians agree that God has no consort and no biological offspring. They still say the Son is the eternal Word who was with God in the beginning. That disagreement is worked through in Can God Have a Son?, not by inventing a wife Christians do not confess.
Does the Trinity Need a Consort?
No. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God. The Son’s relation to the Father is not a birth from a divine mother. John 1:1John 1:1 · King James VersionIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 · King James VersionOpen the Source and John 1:14John 1:14 · King James VersionAnd the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 · King James VersionOpen the Source say the Word was with God and was God, and that the Word was made flesh. Mary is the mother of Jesus in his humanity. She is not a partner beside God. Pagan pantheons pair gods with goddesses—Zeus and Hera are the familiar Greek example—but Israel’s Scriptures refuse that pattern for the LORD.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does God Have a Wife in the Bible?
No verse names one. Marriage language makes Israel or the church the bride. Asherah poles and the queen of heaven appear as practices the law and the prophets oppose.
Was Asherah Removed From the Bible?
Asherah and asherim are in the Bible many times, usually as poles or groves to be cut down. What the reforming texts refuse is worship of her or of an asherah beside the LORD’s altar. That is suppression of a cult the writers call wrong, not deletion of an original chapter in which Yahweh’s wife was orthodox doctrine.
Do Mormons Believe God Has a Wife?
Latter-day Saints teach a Heavenly Mother as the counterpart of Heavenly Father. See Do Latter-day Saints Believe in a Heavenly Mother?. Historic Christian teaching does not.
How Did God Have a Son Without a Wife?
Christians deny that the Son is the product of a divine couple. Can God Have a Son? sets the Qur’an’s denial of a consort beside the Gospel’s claim that the Word was God and was made flesh.
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References
- Book of Genesis, 1:26–27; 2:7; 2:21–22; 5:1–2Genesis 1:26–27 · King James Version1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26–27 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Book of Deuteronomy, 6:4; 16:21Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James Version
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy 6:4 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Book of Isaiah, 44:6; 54:5Isaiah 44:6 · King James Version
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:6 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Book of Hosea, 2:16–20Hosea 2:16–20 · King James Version2:16
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
2:17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
2:19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
2:20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Hosea 2:16–20 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Book of Jeremiah, 7:18; 44:17–25Jeremiah 7:18 · King James Version
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:18 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Second Book of Kings, 23:4–72 Kings 23:4–7 · King James Version23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
23:6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings 23:4–7 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Gospel of Matthew, 22:30Matthew 22:30 · King James Version
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Matthew 22:30 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Letter to the Ephesians, 5:25–32Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James Version5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:25–32 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Revelation of John, 19:7; 21:2Revelation 19:7 · King James Version
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation 19:7 · King James VersionOpen the Source. King James Version - Asherah, Kuntillet Ajrud, Khirbet el-Qom, Athirat at Ugarit, asherah as cult object (World History Encyclopedia. Inscriptions that pair Yahweh with “his Asherah,” the Ugaritic Athirat as wife of El, and the debate whether “asherah” names a goddess or a cult object.)
- Ugarit, Canaanite city and texts (World History Encyclopedia. Context for Athirat (Asherah) as El’s consort in the Ugaritic texts.)
- Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, William G. Dever (Eerdmans. Dever argues from archaeology that folk religion in Israel included a consort often identified with Asherah; that is a historical claim about popular practice, not a confession the prophetic books endorse.)
- The Early History of God, 2nd ed., ch. 3, “Yahweh and Asherah,” sections 2–4 (Mark S. Smith (Eerdmans, 2002). Treats the asherah as a wooden cult symbol in many biblical texts and reads the Kuntillet Ajrud phrase as Yahweh’s asherah-symbol rather than as proven evidence of a goddess consort in the monarchy. Smith notes that the goddess-consort reading is the majority view.)
- Mother in Heaven, Gospel Topics EssayMother in Heaven · English, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. This understanding is rooted in scriptural and prophetic teachings about the nature of God, our relationship to Deity, and the godly potential of men and women. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints.
Mother in Heaven · English, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsOpen the Source (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heavenly parents, and the statement that members do not pray to Heavenly Mother.) - Doctrine and Covenants, 132:19–20Doctrine and Covenants 132:1 · English, churchofjesuschrist.org
Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines—
Doctrine and Covenants 132:1 · English, churchofjesuschrist.orgOpen the Source (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Eternal marriage in the new and everlasting covenant; verse 19 promises “a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever,” and verse 20 says, “Then shall they be gods.”) - Qur'an, 6:101; 72:3Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh International
[He is] Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife] and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing.
Qur’an 6:101 · Saheeh InternationalOpen the Source (Saheeh International, as published on Quran.com. 6:101: “How could He have a son when He does not have a companion [i.e., wife]…?” 72:3: “He has not taken a wife or a son.”)
See Also
- Does the Bible Warn Against a Later Revelation? — Galatians 1:8 says another gospel, even from an angel, is accursed. 1 John 2:22 names the one who denies the Father and the Son.
- The Trinity — Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.
- Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? — Is Allah the same God? Muslims and Christians both confess one Creator, the God of Abraham. They do not confess the same account of who that God is: Christians say Jesus is God, and the Qur'an denies it.
- Tawhid and Christian Monotheism — Muslims and Christians both say God is one. The argument is whether Father, Son, and Spirit are partners beside God or the one God.
- What Do the 99 Names of Allah Mean? — The Qur’an says the best names belong to God. Bukhari 7392 says he has ninety-nine names. That hadith page does not print the list. The Bible names the LORD, I AM, and the Almighty.