I mean, I'm sure she woudn't want to be called 'God' still, with the whole old-guy-with-flowing-beard image the name conjures up for so many...
2007-11-29 10:24:13 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oops! Sorry for the "would" misspelling...
2007-11-29 10:24:49 · update #1
I'd like god to be called "Maggie". I often think of her as a "Maggie". :)
2007-11-29 10:30:47 · answer #1 · answered by James Melton 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think there's an old story about it somewhere - in that story, the female equivalent of God is called Yahweh. Sorry if it's a little inaccurate; since the days of my literary project on that my brain's got a bit rusty.
2007-11-29 18:36:47 · answer #2 · answered by Aerin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All this political correctness is so ridiculous it leaves me feeling ill.
God is a spirit and spirits are neither male nor female. The masculine pronoun is used in the Bible because a) in most languages, most things without obvious gender is still given linguistic gender based on culture; the male role in most societies, and in the Hebrew one specifically, is the dominant one so the male gender is used [most of the time] and b) until the recent overreaction, the male pronoun was considered generic in both Hebrew and English, 'man' referring to both males and to the species in general. It was (and still is) considered demeaning to refer to a human being as 'it'.
If we weren't so messed up about our own sexuality, this wouldn't even be a question.
2007-11-29 18:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by r_moulton76 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Goddess
2007-11-29 19:01:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Venus
2007-11-29 18:38:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, "God created man in He's image, man and woman He created them." So, again, how He created them in He's image? Like that: man and woman. So in God image there is a man and a woman alike.
By the way isn't Elohim (the name of God) a plural?
2007-11-29 18:34:28 · answer #6 · answered by Even Haazer 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Goddess
2007-11-29 18:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by ChaosNJoy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God is neither a man nor a woman.
2007-11-29 18:46:03 · answer #8 · answered by WCK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's still God. Just as it's still President if a woman is in office instead of a man.
But we would probably call her "Lady" instead of "Lord", and "Mother" instead of "Father". Some words are gender-specific.
2007-11-29 18:35:42 · answer #9 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Paganity refers to their female deity as The Goddess, but I like the term Mother.
2007-11-29 18:34:29 · answer #10 · answered by Starshine_Can_Rhyme 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i'd be more shocked to find out that god existed than to find out that it was a woman, besides, if there were a god i don't think that it would have gender in the way that us animals do.
2007-11-29 18:37:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋