2006-09-30 01:59:47 · 24 answers · asked by The professor 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The first thing any new religion does is wipe out, demonize, etc the old one. Didn't the birth of Christianity when it first came into power set out to covert/destroy the pagans who had a female God?
Sorry, cannot find the references that discussed this.
2006-09-30 02:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God was not always considered to be a woman or goddess. That idea developed following Nimrod's wife, Semiramis elevated herself to become the first female goddess... also known as Ishtar and many other goddess names after the confusion of languages at the tower of Babel in Babylon. She called herself the Queen of Heaven,
Before that time, God was and still is YHW... the God who created Adam and Eve, and who has not sex... He is just God. He is referred to in male terms for convenience.
Because much of the story of Semiramis is legend, having no written record, there are confusing conflicts in the story. So, the most accurate we have is the Bible which teaches about Babel, Nimrod, and how the idolatrous peoples made cakes for the Queen of Heaven. We are not told much more than that. But the idol worship is described some...
2006-09-30 02:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by rejoiceinthelord 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God.
Attention, people! New information! Pay attention!
We have learned a lot about everything in 10,000 years, even God.
In primitive cultures there were frequently both male and female gods, a family of gods led by a god couple following human social patterns. Look at Baal and Asherah, or the Osiris and Isis cult. (Cult as in a pattern of religion, nothing pejorative)
Actually He is not a male or a female. He was incarnated as a male, but it had to be one or the other and in that time and place that offered the most logical chance of success.
But really?
God is a spirit.
2006-09-30 02:11:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
according to ancient writers, Cain the second man was the first to begin earth/goddess worship.
I recommend the writings of Berosus to find out more about how nations deified kings, patriarchs, and matriarchs. you might be surprised at what you find.
Also, I recommend researching the Tablet Theory of Genesis Authorship.
Truth be known, God isn't really male or female. Flesh has gender. Spirits do not. He seems to be more male-ish that female though.
2006-09-30 02:39:44 · answer #4 · answered by DexterLoxley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, since God created the earth...there were no mythologists, or greek godess believers or anything.... coz Adam and Eve knew God. and He was the only one around. the girl gods and zeuses and all that came alot later.
We call God a He because the bible does, and thats because God made a HE first. But God doesnt really have a sex, the bible says He made us in His own image.. man AND woman... He created them. BOTH.
so God isnt either. We just call Him a He because its easier... and a He was His first creation of the two. makes more sense.
2006-09-30 02:07:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is neither man or woman. Your concept in this world is, either it has to be a man or woman, it has to have a begining and an end; but in God's Kingdom all these don't matter. So for your information God is just infinite - He does not have a gender.
2006-09-30 02:04:11 · answer #6 · answered by aa_mohammad 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is the first I heard that GOD was a woman? In Greek mythology they do have GODDESS as well as GODS. I never heard them being switched. I did not know that is where the sex change fad got started.
2006-09-30 02:02:25 · answer #7 · answered by lost_soul 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-09-30 03:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zeus was a man.
Who told you Goddesses preceded Gods?
2006-09-30 02:01:58 · answer #9 · answered by martino 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is evidence of lady worship interior the stone age, way earlier the biblical situations. Neolithic human beings left stone carvings of pregnant women. I examine someplace that issues began to alter with the 'invention' of agriculture which became into in all likelihood seen by potential of girls, leaving adult men blaming women for his or her loss of magnitude in searching.
2016-10-15 09:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋