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Is God male or female?

Is God a male or a female?

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upsideguy said:
That is a whole new and interesting debate.... make sure all your valuable crystal is safe and secure.

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Christians will defend the concept to the death even though 1) they can not explain it and 2) its not specifically set forth in the Bible but instead was a creation of the Council of Nicaea, some three hundred years after Christ to settle an on-going theological argument (about the relationship of the Messiah to God).
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To be fair, it does stand to reason that the nature of an eternal, omnipotent, and omnipresent entity with the power to create entire universes on a whim would carry certain aspects which would be essentially unfathomable to a more limited human intellect.

Forgive me for making light here, but when you really get to bottom of things, Lovecraft's entire pantheon of "Old Gods" has absolutely nothing on "Yahweh" in terms of latent mind-breaking strangeness. There is very likely a reason, after all; why pretty much anyone who came anywhere near one of God's earthly manifestations in the Old Testament basically devolved into gibbering hysterics almost immediately. :lol:
 
No gender. I refuse to vote in your poll because you failed to include all options.
 
according to many bigots ,he is white hetero male capitalist
 
Since god said, "Let US make man in OUR own image ..."
it would seem that god is ... a committee.
 
Rainman05 said:
We call priests "father" but we don't mean they are actual fathers.
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l know however it gives the impression that they believe god is a man

doesnt it ?
 
Gathomas88 said:
Jesus is the second persona of the Holy Trinity, and therefore God.
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That's only if one accepts the three in one school of thought re: God. Not all Christian religions do so. Some believe that Jesus was the absolute first "born", the very first sprirtual being ever created before any of the angels or human souls or anything else.

With male pronouns, yes. Again, however, given the fact that God is a spiritual, rather than physical being, this doesn't really mean much of anything.
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Male pronouns were used because as a whole man kind is rather patriartical. Were we more matriartical, it is likely that we would be discussing Goddess (with the pagans worshiping the God) and how Eve was the first human created and Adam was made from her rib.

specklebang said:
To be the creator, God would have to be a hermaphrodite. I don't mean that to be snarky, just realistic. The odds are the God doesn't look a whole lot like you do.
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Not necessarily. You make that assumption (most likely) based on the fact that we are a binary species, as indeed is most life on the planet. But if the Creator had decided on a trinary species (ref: Alien Nation's Tenctonese) you would probably be assuming a being that was the combination of all three.

ecofarm said:
The collective conscious and subconscious of all entities living and 'dead'. It amazes me that people cannot even conceive of a God other than a deity, such is the pervasiveness of theism. Theism has terribly limited our ability to conceive forces beyond our perception and control.
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That does not preclude being a diety at least insofar as a deity is defined. Such a collective could well exist outside of time/space and thus be responsible for the time/space creation. Effectively a causality loop. Or it could be considered that the singular "deity" split itself up into multiple beings to populate its universe, again still fitting with your concept. I'm not saying that you are wrong in your thought, only in the seeming assertion that by being such a collective it precludes the deity status.
 
Medusa said:
l know however it gives the impression that they believe god is a man

doesnt it ?
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No it doesn't.

Here's food for thought medusa. When the Sistine Chapel was being painted by Michelangelo, the Pope instructed him to paint God fully clothed because God has no gender.
 
Rainman05 said:
No it doesn't.

Here's food for thought medusa. When the Sistine Chapel was being painted by Michelangelo, the Pope instructed him to paint God fully clothed because God has no gender.
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famous michelangelo learnt how to paint god from pope

good.
 
If god were male or female, it would mean that God can sexually reproduce, which would undermine the idea of a single divine creator being.
 
Tucker Case said:
If god were male or female, it would mean that God can sexually reproduce, which would undermine the idea of a single divine creator being.
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Not exactly. There are people who cannot sexually reproduce, does that mean they are neither male nor female?
 
Tucker Case said:
If god were male or female, it would mean that God can sexually reproduce, which would undermine the idea of a single divine creator being.
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kuran says teh same thing ,tucker
 
davidtaylorjr said:
Not exactly. There are people who cannot sexually reproduce, does that mean they are neither male nor female?
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They are human organisms, aka members of a species that sexually reproduces. The whole point of the gonads existing in a species is to accomplish the singular task of ****ing.

If we assume that God is "the one true god", we are essentially assuming that it is the only member of a single-organism species. No single organism species would have a sex, because it is impossible for it to HAVE sex (short of banging other species). Thus, we can reasonably conclude that either God is 1. Sexless 2. one of many organisms in it's species or 3. From Kentucky
 
Tucker Case said:
They are human organisms, aka members of a species that sexually reproduces. The whole point of the gonads existing in a species is to accomplish the singular task of ****ing.

If we assume that God is "the one true god", we are essentially assuming that it is the only member of a single-organism species. No single organism species would have a sex, because it is impossible for it to HAVE sex (short of banging other species). Thus, we can reasonably conclude that either God is 1. Sexless 2. one of many organisms in it's species or 3. From Kentucky
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As we understand things, but we don't have complete understanding either. God refers to himself as male, Jesus was male.
 
davidtaylorjr said:
As we understand things, but we don't have complete understanding either. God refers to himself as male, Jesus was male.
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So? It probably just didn't want to call itself "it". That's a significantly more logical explanation that it having a sex would be.

Unless you've personally seen God's **** or you can show that there's even the slightest logical reason for God to have a ****, logic demands that God must be sexless, regardless of the preference it shows for masculine personal pronouns.
 
It depends which God you're talking about. There are quite a lot of them. If you're talking about the Christian God, the Trinity, then there's seems little doubt that he has been conceptalised for most of his 2,000 year history as male. As has Santa Claus. One is as real to me as the other, and they're both male.
 
Andalublue said:
It depends which God you're talking about. There are quite a lot of them. If you're talking about the Christian God, the Trinity, then there's seems little doubt that he has been conceptalised for most of his 2,000 year history as male. As has Santa Claus. One is as real to me as the other, and they're both male.
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Assuming the existence of the Christian god, one must logically deduce that it would have to be sexless being.

In Polytheistic faiths having Gods with sexes makes logical sense, but in monotheistic faiths it is completely nonsensical, not to mention kind of weird. Why would people want their God to have a vestigial dick?
 
The Hebrew word for the name of God in the Bible is plural and part of the word is masculine and part feminine suggesting a man and a woman united in eternal marriage. If you will notice in the Hebrew genealogies in the Bible, they do not mention the mothers or daughters. Obviously each son had a mother, but it is a patriarchal society and they want to protect their women's honor. So put two and two together. If we have a Heavenly Father...
 
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