Do you think it's possible to have a female God?

Question

because if you looked up goddess in the oxford dictionary,. the word goddess wasn't used til after the Bible had been written.

Answer 1

If god was a woman, things would be set up a lot differently. If god was a male, women would have a third breast, one in the middle of their back ..............for slow dancing

Answer 2

#1 from my personal use of the Oxford dictionary I don't find it to be a very good source of information. The true use of the word God to the ancient people did not reveal a sex. God is niether masculine nor feminine, God trandsends gender altogether. It is said by most ancient cultures that God has feminine and masculine qualitys but is beyond sex. God however is just a word that humans gave descriptive meaning to, as is the word goddess. If man gives any group of sounds a description or referance it becomes a word. In the sense of the creator of all God that we often use, no it is not possible to have a female God or even a male God, these are all misinterpretations of the real meaning behind the word God!!!

Answer 3

The English language is fairly new in the scheme of things and is not the only language out there.

Goddess worship was widespread long before Judaism came into existance. In Ancient Egypt, Isis, Bast, Sekhmet, among others were worshipped as Goddesses. Nearly every culture has a female deity. Even in Judaism, Lilith (Adam's "first" wife in mythology) is considered to be a Goddess. Catholics revere Mary as a Goddess type even if not everyone in that faith calls her that specifically.

Why does the male God of Judaism/Christianity have to be the only deity out there?

Answer 4

That's because the English language didn't develop until after the Bible was written.

And no. Anything that exists outside of time and space is beyond the tangential and accidental gender binary of the human species. Trying to project human characteristics onto God is an exercise in futility.

Answer 5

Yes, but that doesn't mean that they are nicer than male counterparts. My Goddess can be a big nasty ***** in her own right when She feels there is a need. Goddesses have been around about as long as religion has. Dictionaries can also be wrong.

Answer 6

Male & Female both called Adam: Gen 5.
Perhaps male & female both called God.

Mother + Father = Son (of God)
Wrong Mother + Father = Son (of a B*tch)
Right Mother + Wrong Father = a Bastard

Triple "mystery" in Colossians 2:
(i) mystery of God, AND
(ii) mystery of the Father, AND
(iii) mystery of Christ

Jerusalem above is mother of us all,
which things are an "allegory": Gal 4.

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

i beleive that the concept of god is what u make it there are a billion ways to interpret the bible and that u beleive what u want
and plus if god is supposed to be perfect u thinkl he/she would want his/her privates so vulnerable to a bite or scratch from any number of animals or perhapsthe devil??
i think not god might as well be a woman
then her reproductive organs would all be nicely encased behind a nice bone and she could have multiple orgasms
YEAH
i love bein a woman

Answer 8

Jesus referred to Him as Father.

Matthew 16:17
Luke 23:46
John 6:32
John 8:19
John 8:54
John 10:32

others

Answer 9

Why does the Bible refer to God in masculine terms?
The answer to the question about why God is referred to with masculine terms in the Bible really has only one answer: This is the way God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. God is never described with sexual characteristics in the Scriptures, but He does consistently describe Himself in the masculine gender. While He contains all the qualities of both male and female genders, He has chosen to present Himself with an emphasis on masculine qualities of fatherhood, protection, direction, strength, etc. Metaphors used to describe Him in the Bible include: King, Father, Judge, Husband, Master, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There are those who would like to blur this emphasis in some of the newer Bible translations, but it is very dangerous to tamper with the way God has chosen to reveal Himself. He most certainly does not intend to minimize women, since men and women are revealed as made in His image and of equal value to Him. But it remains that He is Father, not Mother, and even in the Incarnation chose to come to us as a man, Jesus Christ. One famous Christian scholar, C. S. Lewis, has suggested that gender is far deeper than our human distinctions reveal. He suggests that God is so masculine that we all are feminine in relation to Him. If this is true, it might explain why the church is referred to as the bride of Christ, though it is composed of both men and women.

Answer 10

It is very possible. My religion (Wicca) believes in a Goddess.