God. A Woman?

[Xenophon Siegfried]

Why does God need a gender in the first place? He doesnt need to reproduce like us. So why bother with something thats unnecessary?

[Rev Shrubbery]

ElectricLoki

Blasphemer! Heretic! Do ye know not that the Lord in Heaven works by way of voting and amendments from Earthly authorities?! scream

Matthew 16:19 "...whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Makes me wonder how the Inquisition faired in Heaven...

OUT OF CONTEXT. This verse is in reference to Peter, when Jesus makes him, as Catholics believe, the first Pope and therefore the first to speak for God on earth. The ONLY implication to this statement is that Peter is a righteous person, endued with the gift of knowing the words and the wishes of the Lord. Jesus explicitly states to him that Peter's wishes are not the important ones, but Heaven's: Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven." (Matt. 16:17)

In any case. As has been previously stated, the different language versions of the Bible do state the gender of God as being male. The masculine gender exudes (even more so then than now) a sense of authority and wisdom; also, it is easier to write 'he' in the Bible, instead of 'And then, he/she/it said, let there be light.' It would simply be impractical. Further, God supposedly impregnated Mary--just a thought!

Also, since Christiams believe Jesus IS God, there must be some form of masculinity in the God-substance. It does not, in the end, matter: I suspect personally that God is both male and female AND neither male nor female. For the secularists, did not Freud, who was an atheist, believe that the instict for God appears when people have a need for a FATHER-figure? Perhaps our masculine image of God is merely a psychological delusion.

[MagicalLight]

The idea of God's gender makes logical sense only in polytheism. If there is, and has always been, one God who is the ultimate being, then it's impossible for sexual dimorphism to exist when it comes to God, because sexual dimorphism requires two genders... and for two genders to exist, there must be at least two Gods. So, from a monotheistic point of view, the idea of God's gender is illogical. smile

[Tautua]

Nature's God recognized by the American Declaration of Independence is the maker of both sexes. He is involved in every conception and when He became a human to show us the Perfect Man, he revealed the Perfect Woman at the same time.

Here are some of His Better Women put to music, see video, they are pretty camels:
http://www1.msn.americangreetings.com/ecards/display.pd?path=25302&bfrom=2&prodnum=3094053

[Theseuss]

God has no gender.

[Bibbly]

My theory: If God was a male end, he's dead.
If God is a Woman, she's alive and well.

[Sinfonian_Idealist]

I haven't really looked this up very much, because I believe that it's the wrong question.
If you ask the wrong question, you'll get the wrong answer. 100% of the time.

However, I have thought on it.

The Bible does refer to him with masculine gender words (he/him). However, that may not really mean anything. God, when revealing himself in a visual or aural way, always seems to have done so as a male.

Every one who auraly heard God speak still refers to him as "him/he." The one time he revealed his appearance to a prophet (walking away), he was referred to as "he/him."

However, God is omnipotent. He can do whatever he wants.

For all you Christians out there, if God appeared to you in a dream as a woman, but you still knew by what he said and did that she was God, would you stop following him/her?

If yes, then I can promise you that God will not do so.
If no, then why does it matter?

[Sinfonian_Idealist]

Rev Shrubbery

ElectricLoki

Blasphemer! Heretic! Do ye know not that the Lord in Heaven works by way of voting and amendments from Earthly authorities?! scream

Matthew 16:19 "...whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Makes me wonder how the Inquisition faired in Heaven...

OUT OF CONTEXT. This verse is in reference to Peter, when Jesus makes him, as Catholics believe, the first Pope and therefore the first to speak for God on earth. The ONLY implication to this statement is that Peter is a righteous person, endued with the gift of knowing the words and the wishes of the Lord. Jesus explicitly states to him that Peter's wishes are not the important ones, but Heaven's: Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven." (Matt. 16:17)

In any case. As has been previously stated, the different language versions of the Bible do state the gender of God as being male. The masculine gender exudes (even more so then than now) a sense of authority and wisdom; also, it is easier to write 'he' in the Bible, instead of 'And then, he/she/it said, let there be light.' It would simply be impractical. Further, God supposedly impregnated Mary--just a thought!

Also, since Christiams believe Jesus IS God, there must be some form of masculinity in the God-substance. It does not, in the end, matter: I suspect personally that God is both male and female AND neither male nor female. For the secularists, did not Freud, who was an atheist, believe that the instict for God appears when people have a need for a FATHER-figure? Perhaps our masculine image of God is merely a psychological delusion.

Yeah, Freud said that, but I don't really take a lot of Freud seriously.
The only thing he contributed that lasted was the idea that people could be influenced by desires and thoughts that they aren't aware of. That's about it.

Besides, have you ever psycho-analized Frued?
He never liked it much when people turned his own theories against him.

[sol-inviticus]

Bibbly

My theory: If God was a male end, he's dead.
If God is a Woman, she's alive and well.

Why?

[Bibbly]

sol-inviticus

Bibbly

My theory: If God was a male end, he's dead.
If God is a Woman, she's alive and well.

Why?

Because something glorious either died, or she's still around and loves us dearly.

Example: "I love you." and "******** you." are dissimilar.

[Holier Than Mel Gibson]

[Kutless777]

ibobby II

God is always depicted as a man. Why not a women. The bible never really says what he/she/it is. My opinion is that he is genderless, the all mighty, but Adam did come before Eve. So???

If Jesus was God in carnate and Jesus was a man than it is logical to assume that God is a male as well.

[LordKhrima]

I would say that the intent was to make god appear as man in the bible but it's not really specified. The way the people of that time treated woman and also the way the bible speaks of woman makes me think that they considered men closer to god or at least better respected by god. Though I'm no expert so I could be wrong.

[castnightmoon]

I think to be politically correct they should say "it" meaning both sexes, guy and girl

[Se-Osiris]

"It's more likely than you think."

rofl Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

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Anyways, my depiction of God is female, because of the creationist theory. Gods are usually based with human-like characteristics. And because of the theories that God created existence, literally birthing all of existence, I tend to think of God as a Goddess.