I was reading this rather amusing post http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArpOrMZnXHGUkdfAubnedEbsy6IX?qid=20060919120551AALsOCn
When Brimmaster86 response caught my eye "As for God's balls, well, whoever said god was a man anyway? What makes you think the divine entity even has a sex, it's not like it needs to reproduce...."
I'm not sure if *HE* was joking or not and I know some people jokingly say God could be a woman which is all amusing and stuff (HA God is a woman!) but doesn't it say Jesus spoke to his *FATHER* and God made Adam *in his image* Doesn't that give him a gender?
.oO(And people wonder why I'm an Atheist.)
2006-09-19 09:12:59 · 14 answers · asked by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
el_tiberone - A Mother loves HER children - why don't they call God our Mother?!?!
2006-09-19 09:18:10 · update #1
Male dominated societies will make their main gods Male.
They'd freak out if they knew that the "holy spirit" in hebrew is really feminine. hehe
2006-09-19 09:25:25 · answer #1 · answered by NightShade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible texts use the masculine pronoun and matching verbs for God, in Old Testament and New. Jesus was asked a leading question about a woman with several husbands, "In the resurrection, whose wife will she be?" Jesus answered, "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven" (Matthew 22:30). Sex is not an issue in heaven. Galatians 3:28-29 says, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Another of the promise, which contains no distinction for male or female is 1 John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons [Gr: Teknon, a child, can be son, can be daughter] of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." The children of God will be changed to be like the Son of God, but the metamorphosed result is not going to be apparent from what is now seen.
We only attribute, in summary, the maleness of God because the Word of God does--but God appears to be using it only as a communication convenience.
2006-09-19 09:27:20 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
..You're right.. but also surely it is true that God is both patriachal and matriachal.. meaning He has the feminine qualities
--- "In the beginning God.." All things are made of.. well.. God.. So if He made woman, he must be the source of the feminine.. God is Life, itself.. the only problem is He chose to endow thinking ability, which becomes the ability to choose.. therefor all persons suffer some, but God being Life, lives through and experiences aLL suffereings. Why would he put himself through all this?
2006-09-19 09:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by flowerchilde 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus always refered to God as Father. The Old Testament prophets always talked about His will and His mercy. So given that, I am fairly sure God is a he.
2006-09-19 09:18:16 · answer #4 · answered by hinoroam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not relavent we talk of mother earth God as the creater could be seen as more female as the bible was writen it was natural for them to see God as male a controler. but the holy spirit is female in the oldtestiment showing God is not just male realy not mole or female at all
2006-09-19 09:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you break it down into hebew. adam means human, person. adam, also coincedentally means a dude named adam.
so when it says he made adam, it could very well mean he made people.
and the father thing, thats probably from the place of women, they couldnt see the creator as a girl, he would have had to be a man, like them, the people writing the bible.
2006-09-19 09:18:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If God is creator, wouldn't it make sense that it be a woman since she is the barer of life?!
Great question Star
2006-09-19 09:19:52 · answer #7 · answered by Morning Star 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God has no gender, after all - All of us, male AND female, were created in the "image and likeness" of God.
He is a pure spirit, that is, He has no matter at all, and no parts.
We call Him Father, since He is the supreme source of everything, the one "from whom all Fatherhood in heaven and on earth takes its name" (Ephesians 3. 16).
2006-09-19 09:19:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, you really have to wonder what god was doing with genitalia. Seems pretty pointless, him being the only being to exist at the time.
2006-09-19 09:18:19 · answer #9 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written by men so what sex do you think god would be?
I don't wonder why you're an Atheist ;)
2006-09-19 09:20:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋