2006-12-13 16:04:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope.! God is an idea invented by man, useful for the past but that usefulness has evolved.... God is now an idea that has become highly dangerous to the peace of mankind.
Things weren't so bad before the spread of nuclear weapons... but today is a different story, isn't it?
What shall we do about good ole God?
How about a nice "Thanks for everything" followed by an official state burrial?
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2006-12-13 16:16:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is not a human being so God is neither a man nor a woman. The pronoun "He" is not really accurate and not any more correct than the pronoun "She." The term "It" may be better in accuracy, but is not respectful, implying some being less than human as opposed to the truth of a being that is so much more.
There are masculine names of God and feminine ones. For example, the name Elokim usually associated with God's attribute of justice is masculine, while Shechinah, a name that evokes God's presence in a close and intimate way, is feminine.
In the Midrash, God is sometimes referred to as groom with the Jewish people as his bride and at other times (e.g., Friday night Sabbath prayer service) God is presented as bride.
Images of God as father and God as mother are found throughout Torah and Jewish tradition.
God embodies the ideals, the perfection of both mother and father -- unconditional love, infinite patience, strength, support.
2006-12-14 00:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by Toberlone 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a Spirit not a man has never been a man his son Jesus assumed the form of a man for a short time so he could do several things like die for our sins John 4:24 and john 3:16 Gorbalizer
2006-12-14 00:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well according to the Bible, I can show you how astray Christians are,
Numbers 23 Verse 19
God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
Qu'ran
[005:072] Surely, they have disbelieved who say: "God is the Messiah ['Ãsâ (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary)." But the Messiah ['Ãsâ (Jesus)] said: "O Children of Israel! Worship God, my Lord and your Lord." Verily, whosoever sets up partners (in worship) with God, then God has forbidden Paradise to him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong doers) there are no helpers.
[005:073] Surely, disbelievers are those who said: "God is the third of the three (in a Trinity)." But there is no Ilâh (god) (none who has the right to be worshipped) but One Ilâh (God God). And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall on the disbelievers among them.
[005:074] Will they not turn with repentance to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
[005:075] The Messiah ['Ãsâ (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary), was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother [Maryam (Mary)] was a Siddîqah [i.e. she believed in the Words of God and His Books (see Verse 66:12)]. They both used to eat food (as any other human being, while God does not eat). Look how We make the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to them; yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth).
[005:076] Say (O Muhammad [sal-Godu 'alayhi wa sallam] to mankind): "How do you worship besides God something which has no power either to harm or benefit you? But it is God Who is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower."
2006-12-14 00:09:11 · answer #4 · answered by onewhosubmits 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Exalted and Perfect, Yes.God has been refered to as Man of Holiness in the OT of the Bible. Jesus in the New testiment refered to himself as "Son of Man". We are God's children, and in essance can become like him some day. I can understand if this is a hard concept for you to grasp..
2006-12-14 02:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by kcyesye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No my dear friend. God is not a man. His sex is not written in any religious books. We cannot see Him, He was there in the begining of times and He will be there for eternity. We use the 'He' only because grammatically it is considered the stronger pronoun of the two (he and she) just as the society has seen men and women from time immemorial. God is one.
2006-12-14 00:12:48 · answer #6 · answered by S&D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is a spirit and Jesus which is God son came down in form of flesh to doe on the cross for our sins
2006-12-14 00:06:00 · answer #7 · answered by ereyes7089 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hes a spirit but more likely a man image o ryes
2006-12-14 00:34:48 · answer #8 · answered by Gdschild 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the Bible, yes. He created us in his image, and in turn a piece of Him is supposedly in all of us.
This doesn't mean I believe in God, just means I used to and I found good reasoning to stop. Knowledge is such a wonderful thing...
2006-12-14 00:10:06 · answer #9 · answered by third_syren_of_seduction 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before the creation of human beings and all the things, God was Omnipotent and Absolute Holy. Then God created the creatures and made them male and female to keep the process of creation in progress till the end of time.
God is Holy since ever and will remain Holy forever.
God is not a male-god.
Our God, the creator, created the sexes and the process of sex. To keep the creatures grow. God is gender free. Among creatures males and females are limited entities, because males can never be considered as females and females can never be considered as males. Our god is absolute Holy. We can not consider our God as a male-god or a goddess.
Male is an entity, a thing on earth, because a male is a kind of sex. Since God is Absolute Holy and God is the Creator of males and females, therefore, we can not consider God as a male-god or a father-god.
If someone considers God, as a male or a father, then, it clearly means that he or she believes in an imaginable god (demigod) and does not believe God as the gender-free God.
One should ponder over this question that if God was not a male or a female before the creation of sexes and was Alone & Absolute Holy then how after creation of sexes, God became a male or a father?
If God is a father-god then how we can consider such a god as an Absolute Holy God?
Whosoever speaks of the gender of God, he commits a tremendous sin because God is Absolute Holy and is the Creator of sexes.
To understand God’s Holiness, we must pay heed to this question:
God is a father-god or God is a Holy God?
God effected the process of birth of creatures or God created the creatures?
If God possesses one or more wives and God one way or the other, effects the birth-process and these wives give birth to human beings, only then we can claim that:
1.God is a male-god
2.Our God is our father
3.We are the children of God
But if God simply commands “Be” (KUN) and creates whatsoever God wills to create, then no one is justified to call God as a male or father-god.
God is our Holy Creator, God is not our father, neither physically nor spiritually.
The entire God-revealed –scriptures tell us that God created human beings and every thing. All Alone, therefore:
God was Holy,
God is Holy
And
God will remain Holy.
No doubt, those who consider God as a male-god, a father-god or a man-god (demigod) they have no justification to call God as a male-god, a father-god or a man-god (demigod) at all.
WE ARE NOT GODS
Ponder over this Question:
If we are the children of God then why we are not gods and goddesses?
God said,
“I____ and I alone____ am God”.
(Torah: Duet, 32:39)
A father and a mother and their children make a family and an alone person is not considered as a family or a father.
If God says, that God is an Alone God then how we can call God as a member of a holy family or a father of human beings.
WORD FATHER
Image-making of God is an act, which is equal to the enmity of God in terms of the Ten Commandments and the same act is also an act of idol-making.
Word “father” contains an image of a person who is firstly a male and secondly a husband and thirdly a member of a family and fourthly the word “father” is not an image-free name. Therefore, the word “father” is not suitable as a name for God as God is image-free, gender free and Absolute Holy.
We must believe in God as a Creator of everything in heaven, on earth, in water under the earth, instead of father, who is a limited entity on earth.
God says,
“How God can be a father of someone when God possesses not a wife”.
(Al-Quran)
Calling God as a father-god, a male-god or a man-god is an act of diminishing the glory of God’s Holiness and Aloneness.
Since children possess the status and structure of their parents and do not differ from their parents in design, therefor, human beings are the children of human beings.
If we are not gods and goddesses, then, how we can be the children of God. Who is Absolute Holy. We are lowly and helpless creatures before our Almighty Absolute Holy God.
God says!
“God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. God has made for you pairs of yourselves, and of the cattle also pairs, whereby God multiply you. Nothing is alike God and God is the Hearer, the Seer”.
(Quran 42:11)
“Glory be to God Who created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth grows and of themselves and of that which they know not!”
(Quran 36:36)
Therefore, the people under heaven should not call their Holy God as a father-god or a male-god and should not commit a sin by saying that we are the children of God.
Since intellect can not develop or make any image of God therefore God is Unimaginable and beyond of intellect. In simple words “Nothing is alike God”.
1.“Nothing is alike God”
Or
“There is no image or idol of God”.
(Quran and Bible’s Ten Commandments)
2.“I____ and I alone_____ am God”.
(Torah: Duet: 32:39)
2006-12-14 01:53:14 · answer #10 · answered by ibn adam 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋