If you are Christian why do you believe that God can only be male?

Because God isn't a human, He isn't male or female. Most people just refer to God as male because the early Christians would have never followed a female God. Addressing God as a woman would be just as accurate.

Prophets who HAVE seen and talked with God the Father (FATHER) have stated that he is male. However the true church of Jesus Christ on the earth today knows that we also have a mother in heaven and that God lives in the family unit. He is not a spirit, nor is he an asexual cloud or emotion. He is a literal person of flesh and bone, he is an exalted man, and earthly men (us) are literally--not figuratively--created in His image. Most religions teach this but none except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints really believe it. When God the Father appeared to the prophet Joseph Smith in the spring of 1820 he stated without question that God was a male. The rest of the so-called religious world can debate the sex or nature of God endlessly--but they simply don't know. Listen to someone who really knows and the issue is solved once and for all.

The bible was written by men because women were not allowed to learn to read and write.

Incidentally, tia, you answered your own question, "To me it is very telling that it was two women who were the first to spread the news of Christ's resurrection when it could have been anyone God had chosen."

How do you know they were not the "anyone [the Christian] God had chose"?

Look at your question. You refered to God as "him."

Besides, we have the example of Jesus. He was a radical, who preached lots of new ideas that blew the minds of the Jews. He did not soften the blow of these ideas, only telling the truth. And Jesus called God His Father.

Good enough for me.

That the first people to see Christ after He resurrected were women just goes to show that women are important, too, in religion and in life. That does not mean, however, that God is either female or non-male.

Absolutely not. I agree that the Bible was biased and created to preserve male dominance, too. There is a part of me that speculates that Jesus wanted Mary Magdalene to be his successor. If you read Dan Brown's book, it tells you why this theory may be true. Although his book is fiction, the history behind it is based on his tedious research.

Because no languages in this world, have any appropriate words to explain the God, its just a tradition to call the God as the Father as written in the scriptures. It is not intended to subordinate women, don't be prejudice.

I think that God is Male. Because alot of the books in the New Testement are named after males and because in the Bible males are very significant (as far as reading about their lives and struggles) I think that God is implying that he wants you to see things from a male perspective, because he is Male himself. Does that make sense?

God actually is a spirit, and neither male nor female. But, who can judge God if he chooses to become male in the person of Jesus Christ?

I agree with you. I'm just wondering if it was a question or a statement. :)

Be careful though, thinking on the lines that "the bible was written by men" is one of the first steps to disbelief, where the bible has coincidentally left me (for better or worse).

Who says? Its been said He for lack of an avtual Greecian English Latin or Roman word for mentioning a spesific entity in an unknown gender. God knew it wouldnt be accepted were (s)he (lack of a better word is obvious)a woman nor do i think (s)he has a gender. God is everything everywhere at all times. you cant pin him down.