The Bible was written by a man, so maybe he thought God was a He. But he could be wrong!
Women are intelligent!!!!
2006-07-06 00:35:22 · 20 answers · asked by lunytunes_baby 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So if God was really a woman, would that give people a different view towards women?
2006-07-06 00:48:18 · update #1
If god were female, then men would have:
1) the babies, and
2) enough sense to ask for directions when they're lost.
2006-07-06 00:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's kind of a mythological, gods and goddesses, sort of standpoint, whereby people think there is some person or people all big and giant walking among marble columns up in the clouds.
If there is some force we could call God that created the universe, i think it would be genderless and not of human form. Since it would have theoretically preceded the physical universe, i don't think such an entity would have any physical form whatsoever, except that of existence as a whole perhaps. I think if there is a creator, it's more of a great all-encompassing energy and spirit that exists within and around all people, all things, and all space.
This is why I don't follow organized religion... they all take it upon themselves to anthropomorphize God. If squirrels became intelligent, surely they would think God is a squirrel, and has the emotions and passions of a squirrel. "And the Lord said, Let There Be Nut." Or if there is some alien race that is not of a war-bearing nature, I'm sure their God would be alien like them and there would be no wars or smiting in their Bible.
To me, spirituality only makes sense if God is the God of All Things. God would not have any cultural preferences, no gender, no geographic inclining, and no species preference either. Life is yin and yang... success for people means disaster for other animals. Success of one culture comes at the cost of another. Disasters happen every day. If there is a creator, it is something well beyond what we can comprehend. And I don't think it has a penis or a vagina, since those things didn't develop until birds came about, which was pretty recent in the larger world history. And who would God mate with if s/he DID have sex organs?
I just can't relate to the mythological view of the world in light of our much-improved knowledge of the physical and cultural universe.
2006-07-06 07:53:13 · answer #2 · answered by Firstd1mension 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Maybe Eve was created before Adam but the one person who knew this was a man so thought to make the life of Women harder to bear. Or maybe God is a Female.
Do you know the old saying? 'Sure God created man first, but then you always make a rough draft beore the final beautiful product!'
OK, so I added in 'beautiful', but it's true!
2006-07-06 07:42:48 · answer #3 · answered by mutants_need_love_too 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the following are all possible. I list them in order of liklihood -- with 3 and 4 having the same liklihood:
1. There is no god
2. There is a god and god has no gender
3. There is a god and god is male
4. There is a god and god is female
5. There is a god and god is male and female
6. There is a god whose gender we do not understand.
2006-07-06 07:42:16 · answer #4 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The divine is genderless. The genders (male/female) are equal in the divine's eye.
The male version of god in the three belief systems from the mid-east is based on the Anannaki, who were in that region mining gold and enslaving humans to work for them. Read up on the garden of eden story on the Sumerian tablets. The early bible writers took the original story and altered it to fit their needs, not the truth.
2006-07-06 08:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually if you are going to go by the Bible Genesis 1:27 is pretty darn ambiguous. It reads:
27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
In this case the Hebrew word that gets translated as "man" is the same word that would be translated as "human".
Anyway... Something to think about.
Pax
2006-07-06 07:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by Pablito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has no gender. The image of God the Father is deliberate, however, to give us the model for the human family. In divine revelation (the Bible), God refers to Himself as He because He wants us to imitate Him. God the Father, in His love for the Church (His people) through the Holy Spirit, begot and gave to us His only Son. This mystery is Truth given to us and we are to model our own life by this example.
Man marries woman and has baby. God's love for the Church and the human birth of His divine Son is what we should look to if we chose for ourselves the Sacrament of Marriage. God also gives to us the example of the holy family in Mary, Joseph and Jesus.
Anyway, what I am getting at in short is that God used the masculine gender in order for us to better understand the life He intended for us--because our lacking human knowledge can't grasp a lot of things! Have faith--it fills in the gaps.
2006-07-06 08:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by CatholicMOM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes women are intelligent, but that does make men stupid. In every instance that people (men and women) saw an angel(s), they were MALE, except in one instance, when the angel was FEMALE (but for the life of me, I can not at this time find that passage (KJV-OT). When Isaiah and John were take in vision into the presence of God, they each saw an MALE.
2006-07-06 07:51:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
god in reality has no gender.god can take any forms to help humans.god can either be a he or a she.actually we are all spiritual beings having a human experience and in the end we will merge into god,we are all children of god jus like jesus is,but the only difference is he is enlightened and is one with god.
2006-07-06 08:02:27 · answer #9 · answered by jay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well supposedly God created man in his own image, if you believe that adam came before eve then you should believe that God would be what we call a HE, but since I doubt whether God has a counterpart of an opposite gender I don't think it really matters, it could really go either way or go no ways
2006-07-06 07:46:17 · answer #10 · answered by Jeff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope Adam was made in the image of God, Adam was a man.
2006-07-06 08:19:28 · answer #11 · answered by DesignR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋