And why is new theory so threatening in the Catholic/Christian religion: ie. the unpublished gospels, Dead Sea scrolls, the notion that Jesus Christ might have been married?
2006-07-12 07:59:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The problem is that you are assuming that God isn't around and that there is no way to know anything about who this God person is anyway. God is still around, still communicating with the Church, teaching the Church, sanctifying the Church, and leading the Church on her earthly pilgrimage. So your posited questions are quite ridiculous, as we Catholics know very much about who God is and what God is about, because HE hasn't left us.
So in other words, any time some new fancy notion appears, we Catholic just shake our heads and wonder why people, who are interested in finding a god, don't bother to seek out the real God who is still with HIS people.
I mean seriously, have you or such people even considered that, if there was a god, that God would be very interested in making sure that people know about HIM and what HE is about??
2006-07-12 11:25:29 · answer #1 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I try not to refer to God in a gendered sense, and only when it is grammatically awkward will I used the traditional masculine rendering of God in pronoun form. I think that God transcends gender.
I also happen to believe that Jesus was married - it would have been exceedingly unusual and rare for a thirty-year-old man in first-century Judaea to be single. While there is no evidence in extant Scripture that he was married, neither is it definitive that he was single, either.
2006-07-12 15:22:02 · answer #2 · answered by jimbob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God IS a Spirital Being. We refer to God as a Male because Jesus called God OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. One could argue that was because Joesph was Christ's EARTHLY FATHER but that would be getting to a pointless arguement anyway. My question is why do people like you want God to be a female so bad? Also why would Christ have married KNOWING he had to lay down his life.
2006-07-12 15:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't phase me one bit...and I'm not threatened by the new "theory"...which in actuality is a novel (just like Willie Wonka...whom I' don't view as a threat, either.)
Some people really look down on women, you know...like those who think that God made women simply as a punishment.
As a Catholic, I have the highest regard for women...more-so than most of the male morons I know.
2006-07-12 15:06:47 · answer #4 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well because of the book of genesis it says that god is a man and he created adam in his image there fore god cant be a woman but even if somehow it was true i wouldent care it wouldent change my christian belief anyway after all it still is god
2006-07-12 15:05:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically God is Spirit, no need for gender.
2006-07-12 15:03:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wha cha mean WAS?
Everyone already knows.
2006-07-12 15:04:33 · answer #7 · answered by Ima Lezbo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ditto dgrimes
2006-07-12 15:18:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it wouldnt. i still wouldnt be a christian.
2006-07-12 15:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by cookie_monster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!
2006-07-12 15:06:33 · answer #10 · answered by Guyanese Goddess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋