Do we have a Mother in heaven as well as a Father in heaven?

Question

Dear Gramps,

My sister-in-law who is a non-believer has asked me the following question which I find very difficult to answer. Could you help me? This is what she wrote.”This is an odd time to ask but if there is God’s wife in heaven does she only keep pregnant with spirit children forever and God is the only one in charge? I think it is odd people cannot pray to her and honor her. The bible said, “Let us make man in our own image.” I would think both would or should be prayed to but what do I know? Is that all she does? That is like a machine to me but I thought there were a lot of women in heaven that would be doing that but am I wrong? You know me, always questioning authority.”

Gail

Answer

Dear Gail,

What a strange question! Your sister-in-law says that she is a non-believer. What difference would it make what we would say to her about such an extremely sacred matter that she either in ignorance or derision would try to exploit.

However, let’s treat the question in a general way. First, would there be a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father in Heaven? The word, Father, is the most frequent appellation for God that is used in the scriptures. Can you imagine the concept of a father without the concept of a mother?

Paul tells us in Romans 8:16-17 that—

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

 

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

If we are the children of God, and yet we have mortal parents, the scripture refers to the birth of our spirits as spirit children of our Father and Mother in heaven. So spirits were born of heavenly parents, not made in some sort of celestial factory.

Next question–do you know of any single case in all creation where the offspring do not have the potential to mature into the stature and likeness of the parents? Why would there be an exception at the peak of creation? This concept gives meaning to another of Paul’s statements, found in Ephesians 4:11-13—

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

 

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

And Paul also tells us that—

Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. (1 Cor. 11:11)

Now the question, why do we not learn in the scriptures of a Mother in heaven? Here are just some personal thoughts on the matter to consider. Think for a minute of the unspeakably blasphemous nature that the name of God is taken in the mouths of men! I believe that our Father’s love and respect for our Mother in heaven is such that He would rather have the world no know nothing of her rather than to have her name subjected to the same derision as that given by unholy men to our Father in heaven.

In the Kingdom parents are in every sense equal partners with one another. I would not expose the details of their eternal roles to open public view, but they are available in the holy temples to all who qualify to enter therein.

Gramps