Why do Christians claim there is no Goddess, no goddesses?

Question

What evidence do they base this upon?
It seems they merely just say it is so, without evidence, yet disagree with atheists who say there is no god without providing sources?
Christians who claim there is no goddess are the same as atheists who claim there is no god for the vast majority of values of god....so why don't they get along better?

[Hey Kids, let's see if we can play nice today. If you want to attack my beliefs, make sure you get them right, and there is not enough information in this question to get them right. Don't assume. It makes an @ss out of you....just you.]

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A. Tsk tsk. What did I say about making claims about my beliefs?

B. Polytheists have older scriptures than the Bibles, regardless. One group's mythology is equal to anothers if merely possessing a book is evidence.

C.Of course, there is the whole "make them in our image male and female thing," which uses the plural not the formal....but, hey....who's counting.

Lastly, I'm not attacking Christian beliefs, if Christian beliefs are defined as your Bibles. The claim in the question above is an extrabiblical claim.

Answer 1

I'm a Christian and I make no such claim.

It's very sad we have so many people here claiming the bible states there is no other god - or goddess.

The bible states no such thing.

Within the first commandment. I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me.

It doesn't say there ARE no other gods. It just says God is our (Jews and Christians) one and only god!

The bible has stories about cults of other gods and goddesses. And how they lead us astray.

If you want to wander, that's your choice.

For instance Asherah. A goddess fertility cult. This goddess and this cult come up a number of times in the bible. Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Micah.

How about 1 Kings 11:5
He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.

Acts 19:27
There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited, and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.

So you see, I actually read the bible. Rather than some of these other folks who make claims to reading it but obviously don't. I would never claim there is no other god or goddess - because God himself makes no such claim. And I follow God.

PS: Jeffrey makes a good point about the Book of Wisdom(which many non-Catholics don't read). Wisdom being in the feminine form. But I wouldn't call the Holy Spirit (which is Wisdom) a goddess. Just the feminine aspect of God.

Answer 2

Depends on the Christian. There are two points of view on this.

One is simply that that Bible says it is a "him." The Bible IS their evidence, because that is the basis of their belief. If you are monotheistic, and you believe that the creator has a gender, then it is either a god or goddess. Can't fault anyone who thinks it was a god. They have the same 50-50 chance of being right that you do.

The second way of looking at this, and the one I share, is that the creator has no gender. When God made us "in his image," that refers to our soul. God is spirit. Personally, I think it is kind of shallow and egocentric to presume that God has the same gender as you, or that he/she/it even has a gender at all. If God IS a spirit, then it makes no sense. What use does God have for genitalia? No genitals, no gender.

All that said, you are critical of anyone attacking your beliefs, and yet there you are attacking the beliefs of Christians. What's the difference? If you want everyone to play nice, you have to play by the same rules.

Answer 3

My opinion is that assigning a sexuality to God is an impossible thought. The Christian God concept states that that God always existed, is all powerful, and created matter simply from thought. A being like this has no need for a gender.

Christians follow the Bible which refers to God as God the Father. I believe this was done (Many believe by God) to help describe a familiar, authoritative figure that people could relate to more easily.

If you are a Christian, you simply accept it as a statement of fact as it is written in the Bible.

Answer 4

Because Goddess implies a gender. The God we serve is not masculine or feminine, and both the male and female genders are made in God's image. Even though many illustrations call God "he," the central biblical understanding is that God is spirit, not a physical being, so gender distinction has nothing to do with Him. (ie, "Him" is simply a convenient pronoun)

God is compared to a woman giving birth and breast feeding. The Bible says that woman and man are made in the image of God.

Goddess has nothing to do with Christian beliefs, because "goddess" is a feminine-only deity.

Answer 5

Hi sweetie,
I believe that god is the driving spirit with in us all and the we are all a god or goddess.

As for those who say god made man in his own image, well yes he made Adam first, but then he also made eve. So then in argument to those whom say that, the god must be a combined masculine feminine deity then, other wise the worl would be full of men.

But we are all intiled to believe as we wish.

Answer 6

As a christian the Bible I believe refers to God in the male form. God = The Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit (gender nuetral). This information coupled with the teaching from God that the man is the head of the household (don't mistinterpret that statement).

Answer 7

As a Christian, I have not denied the existence of a goddess. The Lord my God addresses the subject of "the goddess of heaven" and other gods/goddesses throughout His Word. I do not doubt there are some there -my God speaks only truth -but I do not believe they carry any power that could ever be greater than My Lord. Mine is the One True God.

Answer 8

Ask yourself, 'What makes God a man?' He is a spirit, so there must be something other than anatomy that is 'manly'. gods and goddesses are man's attempts to create meaning out of his life. Look at the behavior of said gods and goddesses. They are very different than the God of the Bible. He is not a mere exaggeration of man, as the greeks thought, nor is he some impersonal force, as the eastern religions teach. There is some conflict of 'its not far!', or 'woman are just as good' in your question. Before Him all of that would fall away.

Answer 9

Hello,

Looking at it from a biblical sense only,

Even though I am Christian I cannot dismiss the possibility of other gods. Afterall, the first commandment says I am the Lord thy God and shall not have strange gods before me.
This does not say there are no other gods; only that we are not to worship them. I cannot find any evidence that says no other gods exist.

I believe it was 5500 years ago this God of Abraham first revealed himself to the tribes of Mesapotamia. There were certainly other gods worshiped before him as well as similtaneously once the religion flourished.


Michael

Answer 10

Pagan beliefs tend to be hard to pin down because of the non-organized nature of the religion(s).


Don't at least some pagans not believe in literal gods, but rather use them as metaphors for the human condition, as well as pretty stories to make them feel closer to nature?

Is this "goddess" person just a personification of nature?

Edit: I'm not trying to assume anything. I'm just asking.