Do you believe God is a man, or has a gender at all? If so, what would God need a gender (or genitalia) for? After all, if God is devine, there is no need to have sex for creation (one possible use for genitalia) or to dispose of waste (the other possible use). Please explain your answer.
2006-07-27 11:26:30 · 37 answers · asked by Fretless 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is spirit, which is the source substance limits and bounds of all things, the all in all and that's all. He manifest the male/female principle in nature to reflect himself. In the creative process he is both. YAH=male one who is WEH=female ultimate source. When it says in Genesis let "us" make man in our image after our likness, we are male and female just as YAHWEH is male and female in principle. the "us" is YAHWEH. Genitals are only needed on this plain of excistance for reasons of procreation, no such thing in the spirit. We say he because he manifested himself in the sonship degree as the son of man, the word made flesh.
2006-07-27 11:40:37 · answer #1 · answered by musicisme 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You have your right point about God is devine and there is no need to have sex for creation. We are referring toward Him in masculine gender and that's normal,but misleading. If we speak only strict to the religious beliefs, we might say that God is a man, but actually He didn't need genitalia and He's something more, I see Him, the Almighty as the Universal Power. I find that explanation more close to my feeling and understanding. A good question!
2006-07-27 11:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by sunflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a Spirit.
He has no gender.
However, God did take on the form of a man when He came to earth and His name was Jesus and His relationship to God was as a Son while He was on the earth. This did not mean that Jesus was not God, because He was all God and all man at the same time. In theology this is called the "hypostatic union."
So, in a sense you could say that God is a man, but God the Father is a Spirit. Jesus said numerous times that He came to do the will of His Father in heaven.
So, God the Father is a Spirit who lives in heaven.
2006-07-27 11:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by divprod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can never be a Man because if he becomes a man he ceases to be a God..
In Qur'an there is a touchstone of theology, a 4 line definitionof God, you apply this definition to anyone who claims to be a God, if He passes it He is God, it si as follows...
He Is Allah one and Only
Allah the Absolute the Eternal
He begets not nor is he Born
And there is noting like unto Him
Al-Qur'an 112 : 1 - 4
That is for sure that no immortal can pass this test hence only One True God canpass this this test and that one True God is not a Man..
2006-07-27 12:11:33 · answer #4 · answered by Darkness_to_Light 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is masculine spirit, so I would say yes, God created Adam in His image. Women are created in the image of Adam. As for the genitalia...God is not human so I wouldn't think he has no need for genitalia. But He is a masculine form.
2006-07-27 11:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Margarita F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not a man (escept when he became man in the person of Jesus Christ). He's kinda hard to explain and our human minds cannot understand him. He is a being (meaning he exists), but as to what form I don't know. He is not just a spirit, and he dosn't have a physical body. I don't think he has a gender.
The Bible refers to him as male because, I think, it sounds demeaning to call him "it" and they needed to assign some kinda pronoun to him.
God is God. All of our questions will be answered when we get to heaven; that's a good one. Untill then keep on praying and asking questions. The only way to be sure of what you believe is to question and challenge it.
2006-07-27 11:35:02 · answer #6 · answered by Schnickle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can be any gender because he is any where and every where for all you know he could be you if you believe in him so much then you are what is called a pentecostal you can talk to him in anyway possible. sometimes when you are in church and you hear other people just change the way they speak into a different language then they are pentecostal. all they are doing is talking to god in a way he can understand you and people can't. Go to this website and maybe it might answer your question.
2006-07-27 11:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by babytiger1527 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in God, I believe in the things that we can see, touch, smell, love, hate, etc. This is not God, it is life, and I feel that life is around us all and we should respect life and the world that we live our life in!
God would be an energy, a cumulative feeling, a collective thought from everyone out there who has created him.
There is no man, with a beard on a cloud near the gates of heaven!
2006-07-27 11:39:18 · answer #8 · answered by Emma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is very man according to the Universal Theology of the New Jerusalem by Emanuel Swedenborg.
http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org
2006-07-27 11:29:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, assigning a gender to God means you're assigning all the traits/flaws that go along with it. So, you're essentially calling God flawed if you assign Him (I'm just using the male pronoun because it's more commonplace, and a hell of a lot easier than specifying both) a gender, which is pretty damn blasphemous. QED.
2006-07-27 11:31:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made MAN in His image, so I believe he is male. But at that time humans had only one gender, so it wasn't really a male vs. female thing. There is only one God, so there is only one gender of God. Jesus WAS a man. However, perhaps genetalia were additions so that humans could survive, and not explode due to overfilled kidneys and intestines or die without children to replace them.
2006-07-27 11:33:42 · answer #11 · answered by Crys H. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋