Do you envision God as a man or a woman?

Question

i'm asking this because whenever there have beeen god eferences,it's a "he" and recently i read a book where god was abeautiful woman witha cheery voice and reading the gita,editing it.It made me think.....do ladies think of god as a woman?
or is it a bright white light

please do not take it too harshly,its because the life versions of godhave never been like god but seem to show qualities,i myself see god as a point of light..and its inside me. telling me wats right and what's wrong..

Answer 1

God is everything. He is not a gender, he is not just a blob. He is just everything...you cannot really explain God...God just IS.

Answer 2

Begin with this question. If God created the universe, who created God? Based upon our own meager human reasoning, all events flow in a direct linear direction. Something is created, therefore, a creator created it. I write a poem. I came from my mother and father. My mother and father came from their mothers and fathers, and so on. How did something come from nothing? How was God simply manifest? We can never know. Therefore, I suggest that the idea of understanding God is beyond the purview of humanity. Our ascription of gender to God is the product of fearful people wanting to establish certainty where none may be logically established.

Answer 3

Neither.. Even though we refer to God as Him, I never thought he was just a MAN.. he is so much more & beyond what words are capable of describing. and you know what? It doesn't matter, all we know that He's the one thing you can always count on, the solution to all your problems, the reason for all your blessings, everything you look for in a best friend, but way more at the same time. He is the one that can give you so much more than you would bargain for, and the only thing in existence that is equal to perfection.

Answer 4

God is beyond attributes; we call him as 'He' or 'She' or 'It', as we do not know any other manner to do it. He is formless but there are many who have experienced his presence, in physical form, depending on ones desire. The biblical religions, emanating from Old Testament, emphasise on the formless oneness of God. It is not denied.

But the formless, genderless God, that is spirit, manifest Himself in different form, either as a man, woman,or in the form of an animal, as one likes. If God is defined as totally formless single entity, how does you explain the christian Trinity. If God is divisible into God, the father, God, the son and the Holy Ghost, why cannot he be seen in more aspects than these three?

Answer 5

The Blessed Trinity
3 persons in One God

The Father,
Jesus is the Son,
& the Holy Spirit

# Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:20-22
# Matthew 1:25
But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
Matthew 1:24-26 (in Context) Matthew 1 (Whole Chapter)

Jesus is the Son of God. He was circumsized so that is certain that He is Male.

Jesus said When you pray pray like this,
Our Father who art in Heaven.

Jesus said that I and the Father are one He who sees Me Also sees The Father.

John 14:26 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
26. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

The Holy Spirit is not considered male or female.

Answer 6

Depends on the religion, although there are more male supreme beings than female

Any "God" should be beyond a sexual refence, because it's too limiting. Indicates there is something lacking, and that just can't happen.
"God" is all, so has to be asexual, or possibly transsexual

Answer 7

I've always been stuck with the friendly old man version of god, you know, gray hair and big gray beard. For some reason, it's always a yellow and white robe.

Answer 8

Inside you, God lives as a man, and inside a woman, God is a woman.

Answer 9

Man

Answer 10

difficulty is contained in the former testomony, the language that observed god had no indefinite or impartial pronoun (it) issues were both he or she, her or him, so god might want to no longer be referred to as an "It". hence the perception of god as a male became propogated. Later in history, at the same time as english translations were being prepare, it became considered that god became of the male personality and concerning god as an 'it' became one way or the different to de-humanize or to make god like a 'aspect', this has endured to excellent this second.

Answer 11

god/creator/spirit is asexual for me, even the original text of the bible said man was created in our image , that's both dual male/female. unfortunately early church fathers were threatened/frightened of the feminine in divinity and set out to discredit or erase it. gender does not play a role in my perception of god, god is androgyny at its highest form.