While humans invariably have a gender, most theologians and serious metaphysical thinkers would agree that any superhuman Being would necessarily transcend gender. "Man and woman He created them . . . in His own image and likeness" would seem to imply that neither man nor woman alone matches up to an image of the Deity, but that their complementary and different natures together somehow reflect that Divine image.

Of course, the patriarchal religious establishments that have dominated human history have incorrectly skewed the image of God as inappropriately male, so the neopagan usage of "Goddess," while equally wrong, at least stands as an effort to counterbalance the prevailing image held not only by the "outside world," but even by the pagans themselves, at least during their earlier years.