Just a question, please don't attack me. Thanks!
2006-10-13 04:50:41 · 37 answers · asked by MalibuSun 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't be ridiculous--come doesn't taste like chocolate, and a chick would have gotten everything right--and it wouldn't take her 6000 years either--she would never have created cellulite, and the rivers and waters would run with hot cocoa........
2006-10-13 07:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
My question presupposes you are referring to the Judeo-Christian God.
Both the OT and the NT use masculine descriptors with regard to God. This is simply the way He has chosen to reveal Himself to the world. Is He anatomically male? We don't know at this time. I really don't think it matters at all.
When God created woman, it was for the express purpose of ensuring man was complete. God tells us it is not good for a man to be alone; therefore, He created his "helper" or "helpmeet" (depending upon which translation of the Bible you read). This helper is meant to be a full complement to the male.
Now consider that God created "man" (the Hebrew word used here implies all of humanity, not just men) in His own image. Yet, men and women are distinctly different. What does this lead you to conclude? Is God truly male, or is He a whole being and we each represent only half of His attributes?
Peace.
2006-10-13 04:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is neither he nor she. it is pure energy.consciousness, beyond any sex.once budha was sitting near a bank of a river.one naked woman ran in front of him. behind her some goons were running to rape her. goons asked budha that whether he has seen a naked woman running? BUDHA replied that he has seen someone running in front of him , but whether that one was a woman or a man , he has not noticed.now imagine such an answer can be given by a BUDHA only. one can miss anything about a person, but not his or her sex and it is just impossible for a person to forget the sex of another person whom he or she has noticed naked. if you are determined to establish the SEX of god, then SHE is a better word and it contains HE also.as far as i think female qualities are more godly than the male ones.and one more thing, never fear getting attacked by others if you really want TRUTH . people definitely are going to be offended,and you are definitely going to be attacked, if you are trying to find truths of life. truth always hurts masses. truth is dangerous. if it would not have been the case, what was the need to kill socrates, mansoor etc. be brave or leave the path of truth.sufiesidhi@yahoo.com
2006-10-13 05:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by sufiesidhi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A quick possibility.
It is (maybe was now with all the PC stuff) proper English to use he for a person if the sex was unknown. for example in a rule book for a school it would have said: if your child shows up late to school more than two times in a semester he will receive a detention. not the he/she that is used very often. maybe in the original language god was not given a gender what has been turned into "he" or "him" could have been "it"
I'm probably wrong, but as an atheist i would assume that if there was a god there would be no gender. anything that is all powerful, all knowing, and without form couldn't possibly be a man or a woman.
2006-10-13 05:08:12 · answer #4 · answered by fish lips 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well being as Jesus was God in the flesh and refered to his God as Father...When God said let us create Man in our image. Considering that Jesus was God in the flesh....Eh...just open the Bible. God is the Father Son and Holy Ghost. Jesus is the groom not the bride. Man is to woman As Christ is to the church the body is to the spirit as the woman is to the man. there are spiritual meanings for the physical things in this world to call God a female would pervert these spiritual meanings. God clearly is male he does have a body as he came to earth as a man Jesus Christ. Jesus was born to Mary by the Holy spirit which is a part of god the whole which means he Fathered a son again male...Come on people you know We have a spirit in us does not mean that we are sexless or genderless.
2006-10-13 04:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is our Father in Heaven, so therefore would be referred to as Him or He. Jesus came to earth as a man, so would be referred to as Him or He. The bible also talks about Jesus being the husband to the church, so again puts Him into the He, Him reference.
When speaking about marriages in the Bible, it says that the man is suppose to treat his wife as Jesus treated the church - putting the man and Jesus into the same pronoun - He/ Him.
So if you believe in God the Father, Spirit and Son, you would have to believe He would be referred to as He or Him...however this is not to say that God is a male as compared to on earth, because God is a supernatural being. What He really looks like is not for us to know, but in reality it really doesn't matter - What matters is that we believe in Him and follow in His ways.
2006-10-13 05:17:55 · answer #6 · answered by Cjs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Defination of God-From H82; mighty (spoken of God): - mighty (one).
Defination of goddess-Feminine of G2316; a female deity: - goddess.
God mad man's spirit in the image of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. All male.
Genesis1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Then they felt Adam/man needed a mate, so they created woman.
2006-10-13 04:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not possible God is a female. Then again, he's not a male either.
God is not human, and he has no sex a such, although you could point out that his supposed incarnation on earth, Jesus, was a man. God is called he because of Jesus, the analogy of the father and in the English language someone of unspecified sex is referred to in the male gender.
I suppose you could call him it I suppose but I don't think that'd quite cut the mustard, so he it is.
2006-10-13 04:55:31 · answer #8 · answered by AndyB 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Light says "It is always referred to God as the Father and Isaiah it says that God will be a husband to the widows. Also, Jesus was the exact representation of God it says in the bible, in the book of Hebrews. So Jesus was a man... so... who's gonna dispute that?"
news for you, Light ... goddess worship predates patriarchal deities by five thousand years or more. the earliest known religious artifacts are those of small carved goddess figures.
in fact, your deity Yehweh had a wife/consort named Asherah, The Tree of Life.
Asherah is listed in connection with Baal, but not as his consort. Her consort, very clearly, is El - the senior deity of the Canaanite pantheon, creator of heaven and earth, Eternal father, the ageless one, father of years. As for Asherah, she is revered as the Creatrix of all deities with the title 'she who gives birth to the gods' occurring 5 times. Tilde Binger thinks her role was more significant than is usually afforded in the scholarly literature where El is depicted as the creator of the world, whilst Asherah is merely his consort and merely 'stays at home, keeping the pots boiling and his slippers warm' (Asherah 1997;51). Another of her titles is Lady Asherah who treads on the Sea which appears 19 times. There are possibly connotations here of her destruction of the chaos waters and her victory over original chaos, as in Marduk's victory of Tiamat, or Yhwh’s victory over Tehom.
Recognition of Asherah as goddess also seems evident in the Hebrew Scriptures:
Asherah the goddess: In 18 of the 40 occurrences 'Asherah' is a feminine singular noun which has the plural form of Asheroth (occurring 3 times). References that appear to refer to the goddess Asherah include 1 Kings 15.13, 16.33, 18.9, 2 Kings 21.7, 23.4 and 7, 2 Chronicles 15.16 and possibly Judges 3.7
2006-10-13 05:07:49 · answer #9 · answered by nebtet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's like us calling a cat a girl and a dog a boy. We just don't think about it. I think your right it is possible God is a female. If God is a female I'm sure we don't disrespect her by calling her a him. We just don't know and God knows that.
2006-10-13 04:57:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's ok... :-) by the way you can refer to God as he, as it is a generic term (secondary definition) with no reference to gender. Anyway, don't you just wish we could all get along? :-/ well peace!
Somebody posted this in one of my questions about a week ago because I referred to GOD as HE/SHE/IT. I just copied it to here. But I personally call GOD a he because I am just accustomed to it. But GOD has no gender. I refer to GOD as HE, and the earth as she. I would not call the earth a he. It is just what I got accustomed to. Take care love!
2006-10-13 05:04:59 · answer #11 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋