it seems like god should be somewhere in between a man and a woman.
2007-03-05 08:45:58 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i dont think god has either sex organs. if he did that would imply that he has the ability to reproduce, thus there should be other "gods"
2007-03-05 08:48:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't! In fact, God isn't a man, woman, or any variation thereof. God simply has no gender. In the Bible, God is described as a woman at times too. For example Deut 32:18, Job 38:29, Ps 123:2 Isa 42:13-14;46:3;66:13, Hos 13:8.
2007-03-05 09:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by Emily B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is neither a man nor a woman... They portray him as a man because of the power behind saying that he was a man. Back then, men weren't equal and they had the power.... And that belief lives on today. But God is a being... neither man or woman.. not even human
2007-03-05 08:49:49 · answer #3 · answered by Foxxy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think G-d has a particular gender. I believe that humans were created in G-d's image, and since humans are of both genders, then it's clear that G-d is of both, so neither male nor female. We refer to G-d as "he" because it's more convenient to use either a masculine or feminine pronoun than "it." Someone tried to point out that "god" is a masculine term, which is true, but there are many terms used for "G-d" in the Hebrew Scriptures. One of them, "shekinah," or "spirit," is a feminine noun.
As for being a physical man, I know that G-d ISN'T that because it says so in scripture, many times:
"G-d is not a man, else he should lie."
2007-03-05 08:54:58 · answer #4 · answered by Kathy P-W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Judeo-Christian God is called "He" because Yahweh, the Israelite tribal God from whom He evolved, was a male deity. (There were many Gods and Goddesses worshipped in that part of the world at the time.) The male pronoun has been grandfathered in ever since. ;-)
Personally I believe that the Divine is beyond gender, but human beings, interpreting that fundamentally incomprehensible entity in human terms, usually feel most comfortable relating to the Divine as He or She. As far as I'm concerned, you can call the Divine what you like. It remains the Divine.
2007-03-05 08:53:18 · answer #5 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a spirit. God is both male and female. Jesus, Who is God, is a man. Often the Holy Spirit is depicted in art as the feminine part of God.
2007-03-05 08:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sweetie. Don't limit God that way. God is beyond a man or woman. The gender is classified by the anatomy.
God can't be limited by flesh..
2007-03-05 08:55:24 · answer #7 · answered by se-ke 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps, although he did create man first.
God can turn himself into whatever he wishes to, he came as a cloud, wind, burning bush, spirit, Jesus, and more like perhaps a woman.
Perhaps he is the last of his kind, perhaps he had a mother and sister, and brother.
2007-03-05 09:03:28 · answer #8 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible everyone reads today is gender-biased along with half the worlds population. if god(s) exist they'd either have a no-sex "divine" being, or many gods and goddesses and/or one god and one goddess and/or a god and goddess with many face, and so forth.
But as history goes this "god" of yours seems more like a Male chauvinist pig, to me. Not a loving, forgiving divine creator...
2007-03-05 08:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by Patriot of the Wasteland. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a man because he was created by a male dominated society.
2007-03-05 08:50:24 · answer #10 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because God has spoken to people throughout history, and revealed His nature to us.
Somewhere in between a man and a woman? ewwww.....
2007-03-05 08:51:31 · answer #11 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋