What makes you think God (if you believe in God, if not you don't care I'm sure :) ) is a specific gender? Or if you don't think that, what makes you not think it?
I am aware Jesus refers to God as the father, so please don't post that a million times. This is for any theist. Thanks :)
2007-02-26 06:21:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
GOD has no gender.
2007-02-26 06:23:25 · answer #1 · answered by glass. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering that all things in the universe have opposites, yin and yang, up and down, male and female. Then we have to ponder the question that if God has a gender than there has to be the opposite, Goddess. If, on the other hand, there is no gender then this looks more like and omnipotent presence. How could a god with gender issues be impartial. Maybe we're looking at something like an entity with both genders in equal parts, that would make more sense. Females are the givers of life, no argument there, so in some ways having a female god would be more accurate for a creator than a male. If we are indeed, as the good books say, made in the image of a god then we have to wonder at the sanity of this being because we are so imperfect and so fallible. My personal choice would be both in one.
2007-02-26 14:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by ZenWoman 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They had to refer to God as Jesus' father because Mary was obviously the Mother. There couldn't be two Mothers because homosexuality is forbidden in the Old Testament.
God has no gender, the oldest life forms on Earth have no gender. God is a short enough word, I use it when talking about God.
2007-02-26 14:23:43 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didn't have a gender in the original Aramaic Scriptures. God became male in the 6th century A. D. when Pope Gregory re-wrote the entire Bible to further his own agenda for the Roman Catholice Church. For instance, going through a male priest and confession to receive forgiveness and superiority of males over females.
2007-02-26 14:31:20 · answer #4 · answered by Rev Dr Rog Kissel 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that a god did in fact exist, it would be impossible for it to have gender in the physical sense of the word as it does not exist in the physical world... so some would say in a spiritual sense "god" would have a gender. In a spiritual sense the gender would have to be female, as males do not "birth" life, females do... and if you believe a creator god created life (by itself) then it would have had to be a female.
2007-02-26 14:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. He is the one God, Who has no partner.
2. Nothing is like Him. He is the Creator, not created, nor a part of His creation.
3. He is All-Powerful, absolutely Just.
4. There is no other entity in the entire universe worthy of worship besides Him.
5. He is First, Last, and Everlasting; He was when nothing was, and will be when nothing else remains.
6. He is the All-Knowing, and All-Merciful,the Supreme, the Sovereign.
7. It is only He Who is capable of granting life to anything.
8. He sent His Messengers (peace be upon them) to guide all of mankind.
9. He sent Muhammad (pbuh) as the last Prophet and Messenger for all mankind.
10. His book is the Holy Qur'an, the only authentic revealed book in the world that has been kept without change.
11. Allah knows what is in our hearts.
"Allah" comes from the Arabic word "elah" - (Arabic) means 'a god' or something that is worshipped. This word (elah) can be made plural, as in "aleha" and it can be male or female. "Allah" comes from "elaha" but it brings more clarification and understanding.
Allah = Has no gender (not male and not female)
* "He" is used only out of respect and dignity - not for gender
Allah = Always singular - Never plural
* "We" is used only as the "Royal WE" just as in English for royalty
Allah =Means "The Only One to be Worshipped"
2007-02-26 14:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by BeHappy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont think God has any gender, in the same way light has no gender.
For communication with us he has taken on or been given the male gender. I think we often box God in with our limited understanding.
Perhaps a the creator of the genesis of our universe he is more female afterall. But in times when women were given less respect it was more appropriate to refer to him as male due to power issues.
What makes anything male or female. It is a reproductive status I suppose. Outtie or innie? Eggs or sperm. I say neither, not both. God doesnt reproduce that way, sex doesnt apply.
2007-02-26 14:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by G's Random Thoughts 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe that male and female genders are probably something that human beings project onto a fundamentally unknowable Divine Source. This doesn't mean that the projections don't have value and power.
Myself, I honor Deity as both male and female -- God and Goddess -- because that kind of balance makes intuitive sense to me.
2007-02-26 14:27:38 · answer #8 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Even though God is a spirit I think it's just common to refer to that spirit as Him. Back when things were written down women did not have any power, so Him was a natural choice.
2007-02-26 14:23:56 · answer #9 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a male. Many things point to this fact. Genesis states that God made Adam in His image. Every part of Adam was of male gender.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...
It is never stated that woman is made in the image of God. We were made from Adam. Woman means man with a womb (womb+man=woman).
(You didn't want to hear this, but it's important)--All through the Bible, God is called Father, the Father, or is referred to as a male--Him, He, His.
2007-02-26 14:27:27 · answer #10 · answered by Christian93 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was a man, Jesus called God his FATHER, Adam was the first human and God made man in his image.
2007-02-26 14:27:44 · answer #11 · answered by J D 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋