Correct identification of god's "gender" - isn't god really a hermaphrodite?

Question

If God created Adam in his image, then in what image were female's created?

or, if "man" is really meant to include all of mankind, then isn't god really a hermaphrodite (that is, possessing both male and female sexual organs).

How do you know Jesus was in fact, a male? Hermaphrodites don't necessarily develop breasts (a secondary sexual characteristic, not primary). Their genitals have male and female bits. Has anyone actually seen Jesus's genital bits? Could Jesus and/or god really be a hermaphrodite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You misinterpret the word image. When you look in the mirror what you see neither breathes, smiles, winks, grins, or anything else (although it appears to). It makes no sound. If you turn out the light it is gone, you are not. Your image can do nothing that you don't do. And most of what you do it cannot. It is a mere reflection.

So in some way we are a mere reflection of God, and since we have no indication that God reproduces, we cannot apply either the male or female gender concept. When we speak of mankind we never say she although obviously mankind consists of both genders. So when we call God He, it is no more a reference to gender than is our use of the word for mankind.

I doubt that gender applies to God in any way.

And Jesus was a divine spirit in the body of a human male. He called himself the Son of Man.

Answer 3

Other than Jesus who was fully man, God does not have a sex or sexual organs. In person of Jesus, He is fully man. God as a whole transends sex. He is prefectly masculine and perfectly feminine. Thus we are all created in his image.

As to gender, we represent God with masculine gender because of the relationship to His creation. God is seen as Father because He creates outside Himself. In procreation, men's role is outside themselves. In traditions which believe that god created from within herself they represent god as feminine (eg Mother Earth or Gia), because women's role in procreation is within themselves.

A masculine creator god exists outside his create. With a feminine creator goddess creation is within her.

Thus should be seen to exalt men, nor should it be seen to make God male.

As to Jesus, He was a man. The bible is quite specific. Herod didn't go killing all the hermaphroditic children under two, now did he? And just like everyone else, He was born naked.

Answer 4

If you really feared God you would be careful as to how you believe. What difference dose it make if God was green, woman, man, cat or goat? Your job is to serve, pray, bless and seek his will for your life. Try doing this and you will find your hands full. God is love.

Answer 5

It is said 'Boy George' was made in His image...but that goes for the rest of us too...don't know about Jesus's equipment, but if what they say about what he did and what happened to him is true, he certainly had ballz.

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Answer 6

In scripture God is referred to in the male gender.

The husband is the head of his home just as Christ is the head of his bride the Church.


http://www.biblebelievers.com/AllThis.html

Answer 7

yeah!....i saw it, his genitalias that is, in a painting of him on the cross....but seriously i dont think he died on the cross, because cartman told me that "if a person dies, they have to crap out their a*s". I bet he died after many years, im sure he escaped the tomb, dipped himself in flour and spooked his 11pals, then ran of to some where in jordan, or maybe india, he must have been hanging with krishna, ramayana and buddah.....

Answer 8

The divine is bisexual. Gender only exists in the physical world where we have polarity.

Answer 9

no, god is niether, but he/she is a being. It's more personal to call him/her she/he then it. The truth is the sexual organs are physical, not spiritual.

Answer 10

Do you really think God has genitalia?

Answer 11

this is a non issue to me, it doesn't matter if he/she is male or female