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Is God male or female?

Is God a male or a female?


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Greetings, Specklebang! :2wave:

Excellent post. :thumbs: Anything that is powerful enough to create what we call the universe probably couldn't be described. We don't know enough yet, IMO. :peace:

We can't even get to the next star in 80,000 years of travel let alone to the center of the universe. We won't be meeting god - now or ever. Nor do we need to.

When I was in Nepal on a business trip, I asked my supplier, a well traveled and well educated man, about the multi-armed, animal headed gods that each family had a shrine for. He said that they knew that these were not depictions of the real god, just identities that they could relate through. It is the same with all religions - we have a depiction of god to help us relate. I think most people know there is no bearded old man in the sky. But the creator is beyond our comprehension so we use representations to gain a sense of identity.

Obviously, just an opinion.
 
I never considered the 'gender' of Flying Spaghetti Monster but I must worship it nonetheless
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I know. My point required the assumption, though.




There are plenty of reasons to refer to God as male in the scriptures without actually necessitating the existence of a vestigial penis. The primary one being that the culture to which the scriptures were aimed was a patriarchal culture. Logically speaking, it makes more sense for a sexless god to refer to itself as male given the audience it was targeting that it does for a being in a single-organism species to be male.

All of this, of course, assumes God exists.



Actually, it does have an answer. Assuming that God does exist, the only logical explanation for God being referred to in the scriptures as male is that the scriptures are not intended by god to be taken literally, and that god was employing a persuasive rhetorical approach in his self-identification as "male".

But those who are adamant about God having a vestigial penis are also the people who make the assumption that the bible is to be taken literally and is incapable of any inaccuracies, even if they were intentional inaccuracies made by God for entirely persuasive rhetorical reasons.

The entire debate is ultimately a logical paradox caused by people's illogical assertion that the bible was designed by god to be a literal depiction of reality (rather than a book of stories and parables meant to teach lessons about life and morality).

By combining logical deductions, we can see that, at best, the Bible was intended by God to be a collection of lessons, not a historical account of reality. Those who chose to believe the latter is the case must therefore actively reject logic, since it is impossible to reach that belief in via valid and sound logic.

Very good posting!

And it's in line with my religion's teachings as well. Especially the bolded part: Whenever God revealed himself through a prophet, He had to use analogies and a language the respective audience would understand.
 
anytime someone sez: lemme put this in terms you can understand
walk away
 
I couldn't think of a word for totally useless and nonsensical body part that makes no damned sense whatsoever, so I went with the next best thing.

You could have named it after my dick then.
 


Biblically, male. However, the verse "God created Man in His image, male and female created he them" implies that both male and female are in God's image... not necessarily in the physical sense, but in the spiritual sense. This implies that the psyche of the female is also part of God.

As I believe in God as the Omni-etc Creator of the Universe, I tend to view Him as being nominally male in scripture but probably "beyond gender" in reality, just as the universe itself has no real need of gender.


Jesus of course was male in his Earthly incarnation, but one could argue that this was simply because it was a societal necessity in the time if he was to be taken seriously.


So I guess my answer is "nominally male but really beyond such definitions."
 
do you believe in mortal aliens ?
I don't know what to believe when it comes to defining "god" with any thing that classifies as certainty or faith. I only know this. If the concept of "God" is real, there are most certainly more than one.

Any person or alien could be seen as powerful enough to be called a God. Gods in the spiritual sense may be real as well. I am certain that we have a living spirit. Now expand on that idea in your own imaginaltion.
 
Neither. God is not a person. Any description that attaches personal attributes to God are just very vague analogies that allow man to imagine *something*, at least a remote glimpse of God, but the analogy should not be mistaken for reality. God is incomprehensible by definition, as the comprehended (man) can never fully understand the comprehending (God).

It is my belief that God sent countless messengers or prophets to mankind, who founded new religions or rather "updated" old ones. Among others, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zarathustra, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and Baha'u'llah were such divine prophets sent by the one and only God, and accordingly, all of the religions they founded are equally true. Differences in these religions are due to the necessities of a fallible, developing mankind in different stages of its development.

That's a fundamental teaching of my religion, so I have to conclude that all those seemingly conflicting images of God and metaphysical explanations in these different religions are equally true, and where we perceive unreconcilable differences, we either don't try hard enough to concile them, or hit the barrier of our limited fallible human understanding.

The different religions are just looking at the same reality from different perspectives. Likewise, God is not anymore a person than He is a force, a principle or a manner of thinking.

Even the bible suggests there is more than one God....

Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:7 "You shall have no other gods before me."



Heavenly Mother....


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Heavenly Mother (Mormonism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
God is whatever the ruling class wants him to be. If women ruled the world, God would be a female and in some religious, some of the highest deities are indeed female.
 
Even the bible suggests there is more than one God....

Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:7 "You shall have no other gods before me."



Heavenly Mother....


Heavenly Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heavenly Mother (Mormonism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm Bahai, which means I believe Baha'u'llah in the 19th century was the most recent divine messenger and everything he said is binding. Baha'u'llah revealed that there is no God besides God.

On this basis, I assume that the OT demands not to worship other gods is not supposed that these other gods are real, or at least no gods beside the one single God. When you look at the wording, it doesn't imply these other gods people are not supposed to worship actually have to exist.
 
Even the bible suggests there is more than one God....

Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:7 "You shall have no other gods before me."



Heavenly Mother....


Heavenly Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heavenly Mother (Mormonism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Beyond that, the original Hebrew and Chaldean word for "god' is a plural form. It is when in the old estimate, "Lord God" that there is a name attached, and if I recall correctly, two different names are used.
 
God is whatever the ruling class wants him to be. If women ruled the world, God would be a female and in some religious, some of the highest deities are indeed female.
Yes.

We create God in our own image.
 
Bad poll. God is not a person.

But, Risky. If god was a person, wouldn't that explain a lot of ****? I mean... surely a supernatural being wouldn't have ****ed the planet as much as it is? Who else but a person would have designed humans to be such a vulnerable, fragile vessel? It's like human bodies have been designed by Homer Simpson. Oh, wait, Homer isn't a person. He's not real. Never mind. I thought I was onto something.

I would have to ask: Why would something that could create universes have to have a gender? To something that powerful, humans would have to be nothing more than like a kid's science project...that went amuck.
 
But, Risky. If god was a person, wouldn't that explain a lot of ****? I mean... surely a supernatural being wouldn't have ****ed the planet as much as it is? Who else but a person would have designed humans to be such a vulnerable, fragile vessel? It's like human bodies have been designed by Homer Simpson. Oh, wait, Homer isn't a person. He's not real. Never mind. I thought I was onto something.

I would have to ask: Why would something that could create universes have to have a gender? To something that powerful, humans would have to be nothing more than like a kid's science project...that went amuck.

Did God create the universe? If you read the Torah in the original language, you will see that the process of creating the "known" universe could be a process we hypothesis as "terraforming."

You have to remember that religion has always been historically used as a tool by those in power. The King James and following English versions depart in several ways from the oldest known text.
 
Did God create the universe? If you read the Torah in the original language, you will see that the process of creating the "known" universe could be a process we hypothesis as "terraforming."

You have to remember that religion has always been historically used as a tool by those in power. The King James and following English versions depart in several ways from the oldest known text.

Lord...I'll be honest here. I'm atheist. And I was just throwing in a little fun and sarcasm by using Risky's post as a bouncing board. And plus I know Risky wouldn't mind me doing that.
 
This is how my GOD look like

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God is neither, cannot be, thus, again, no vote.Thats if there is a God. I think there is, but not as we would think...
 
But, Risky. If god was a person, wouldn't that explain a lot of ****? I mean... surely a supernatural being wouldn't have ****ed the planet as much as it is? Who else but a person would have designed humans to be such a vulnerable, fragile vessel? It's like human bodies have been designed by Homer Simpson. Oh, wait, Homer isn't a person. He's not real. Never mind. I thought I was onto something.

I would have to ask: Why would something that could create universes have to have a gender? To something that powerful, humans would have to be nothing more than like a kid's science project...that went amuck.

LOL! Great post as always, RM. You may be correct. No god could have ****ed up the planet if he didn't have a huge god-schlong. Therefore God is a dude. At the present God has a stiffy for the Middle East.They piss him off. On the other hand, I would say that God prefers Notre Dame football and for reasons unknown God is less than pleased with Tebow. God seems to want Tebow to play left home at away games.

As for God and women, He isn't that into the wimmen thing. God seems to like Ophra, Julia Roberts, Angela Merkel, Emma Thompson and that woman with big tits on CNN.
 
They're all God, technically; just different aspects of him. "God the Father" is God as he appears in heaven, in his purest form. "God the Son" is God's earthly avatar and link with humanity. I'm not entirely sure what the Holy Spirit signifies, but I think it has something to do with God's all encompassing presence throughout creation.

All are distinct entities which somehow make up the greater nature of one complete being.

How exactly all of this works is completely beyond me. I'm pretty sure that I just completely butchered the explanation I provided above anyway. :lol:

God can be anything.

I believe these are probably the best explanations I've heard. If God were limitless you could never pin down one creature, sex, source, point, form or description for a being that clearly encompasses all and more. How do we as limited creatures recognize the infinite and define it?

I remember a person saying to me once "I see no God what is this being to me" and I said "God is your life". The Hebrew name for God was "Ehyeh asher ehyeh" literally translates as "I am that I am" or "I Will Be What I Will Be". Who, what and where God is a mystery yet to be revealed but the answer is not outside you.
 
Beyond that, the original Hebrew and Chaldean word for "god' is a plural form. It is when in the old estimate, "Lord God" that there is a name attached, and if I recall correctly, two different names are used.
When Moses asked God his name he answered, "I am that I am." When Moses asked his name again, God replied, "never mind who I am." Apparently God didn't want to reveal his true nature by attributing a name to it. This leaves God wide open for interpretation and interpret the prophets of the bible did. So depending on which book you read, there is a wrathful God, a venegeful God, a jealous God, a prankster God, a merciful God, a loving God, etc. Obviously, each prophet in the bible experienced God differently. Which suggests that God can be whatever you want him/her to be.
 
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At the time he was 100% man as well. That's how.

Of course, at the time God was 100% man.... If he was 100% man then how can be he God?

Please tell me where in the Bible it says Jesus is God.... (hint, it does not... the concept of the Trinity is a creation of man... used to try to define God)
 
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