2007-10-03 12:26:07 · 32 answers · asked by VWJ05 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
IT is also nonexistent
2007-10-03 12:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
No one can trully know if God is a man or a woman, meaning male and female, as we know them. God is refered to as HIS, HIM, HE, FATHER, ABBA FATHER, HOLY FATHER, THE HOLY SON (because God and Jesus are one and the same in the trinity, along with the Holy Spirit), and the SON. this is very likely to be the one thing that we can trully say occured because of human involvement. Men are the writers of the bible and so, naturally, as humans and therefore beings of finite (meaning they are all-knowing), when they hear that Jesus was the Son of Mary, they connect God to the "father" image.
One arguement that people who argue that God is either man, woman, or both, often refer to the passage in Genisis in which God says "...let us make man in our image...". He could either specifically mean MAN, as in male, which could be why Adam was first, or MAN, as in the human race as a whole, which backs up the theory that God could be a woman or both man and woman, or neither (God, after all, is not bound by mortal limitations, such as gender) because if he means huMAN then Adam and Eve are BOTH in the image of God.
Until we die, we can not know the absolute truth of this question or the verification of these gender theories. We cannot gaze upon the Lord as they did in biblical times, nor can we directly converse with him as though he were another man in front of us like Moses, Abraham, and Issac did. All faith must be focused on God as God, not God as The Father, or God as the Mother, or any other interpritation. But God as God as God, and thats all thats important.
2007-10-03 12:36:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree!! Some of these poor people and their crazy ideas!!! Has anyone ever heard of the "Trinity"? That'd be, Father, Son and Holy Ghost....God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost.
Now, where I come from "Father" is used to address your male parental unit.
Anyway, I don't think God is a spirit. I think he is a normal human being, just as Jesus was when he was here on Earth. Now, when I think of God, I think of a huge man, sitting on a huge, beautiful throne, with beautiful robes and angels by his side, but his body and features are all 'human', not like, ghostly.
2007-10-03 12:40:16 · answer #3 · answered by AndyLou2you 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is referred to as a male because the Bible was written in a time when women were property and no one would have dared think of him/her/it as female. Back then the word of the men was law, and so it got written that God was male and no one questioned it and it eventually became so ingrained into people's minds that only recently has God's gender been questioned.
2007-10-03 12:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real answer according to theology is that God is both male and female. The fact that He came as a man and always in appearances in the Old Testament is the fact that we should continue to refer to Him in the masculine way.
2007-10-03 12:36:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is in Hinduism.
God is a one being, yet we understand Him in three perfections: Absolute Reality, Pure Consciousness and Primal Soul. As Absolute Reality, Siva is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the Self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As Pure Consciousness, Siva is the manifest primal substance, pure love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power.
God is all and in all, one without a second, the Supreme Being and only Absolute Reality. He is Pati, our Lord, immanent and transcendent. To create, preserve, destroy, conceal and reveal are His five powers.
The Vedas explain, "Self-resplendent, formless, unoriginated and pure, that all-pervading being is both within and without. He transcends even the transcendent, unmanifest, causal state of the universe."
Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, has no beginning--it precedes recorded history. It has no human founder. It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one.
For more info,please visit http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/wih/
2007-10-03 23:01:59 · answer #6 · answered by Adi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a Spirit. Spirits don't have sex organs. They do however have qualities that are stereotypically imputed to the sexes - such as strength for man and compassion for a woman. God actually has all these qualities. He split them between Adam and Eve when He creaetd them.
2007-10-03 12:30:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people call god a HE since IT is referred to as a HE in the bible, and ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, god couldn't be a woman since woman aren't as perfect as men. The rest of the people just call him a HE since everyone else does.
2007-10-03 12:33:36 · answer #8 · answered by WhollyBabble 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is referred to as HE because our society used to be a heavily male dominated society.
2007-10-03 12:30:17 · answer #9 · answered by othelios 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't know what God is but I do know that the Bible was most likely writing by men. So anyone important was of course a man.
2007-10-03 12:29:25 · answer #10 · answered by -x-Crushed-x- 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a Spirit. He is neither man nor woman. But yes He is always referred to in the masculine.
2007-10-03 12:29:00 · answer #11 · answered by Heidi R 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋