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Is God male or female?
- Thread starter Godwilling
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You are right and I am right also:
26 ¶ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
26 ¶ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Jacksnyte
Reverend
all physical things are evidence of Gods creation
nothing comes from nothing!
So, by that logic, everything comes from everything
Breathe
Hostis humani generis
Oh wow. You can quote a dictionary, well done. I was after something a bit more intellectual than that---what is creation, and how is it done? How is something created? In one sudden whoompf, evolution, and so on.
Care to try again, or do you just feel like treating me like an illiterate peasant all the time?
Before "Bereshis bara" there was only God, everything was created from nothing![/color]
So, by that logic, everything comes from everything
joke:
Satan says to God, I can make a man after my image too. God says go ahead, try!
satan reaches down to gather the dust, God said; AAAH! No, get your own dirt.
Either God created all, out of himself or out of nothing. Before creation there was only GOD!
ImmortalPhoenix
Member
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So, by that logic, everything comes from everything
Exactly
Have you never pondered how the much larger is like the much smaller. And how everything seems to orbit in it's set course. By everything, I can also mean nothing, since everything is ever evolving and changing. Or nothing if you so choose.
Jacksnyte
Reverend
Gaura Priya
IRL
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
And here I thought you were going to say that Satan made me.
I'm willing to bet that if Men and Women had an equal hand in The Books' revelation, compilation, translation etc... we'd have a more clear Scriptural answer to cite.
Gender is useful in understanding in human terms, the relationship.... but had things moved through history, we might have ended up with a very different means of connection to the Divine.
:namaste
SageTree
Gender is useful in understanding in human terms, the relationship.... but had things moved through history, we might have ended up with a very different means of connection to the Divine.
:namaste
SageTree
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ellenjanuary
Well-Known Member
According to my research (admittedly not spectacular), there was a definite agenda to move away from maternal, protector goddesses, to paternal, aggressor gods. There was also a movement towards encouraging the prophetic gift to manifest in males; this gives god an undeniable masculine taint, and once the guys started running the show, that was about it for the ladies.
Masculine in aspect, neutral in spirit.
Alceste
Vagabond
I once had a dream. I thought I saw Gaia, the goddess I was trying to believe in at the time, swimming. She rose up out of the water and I realized it was not a big fat woman at all, it was a big fat bearded man. And he had a fistful of butcher's knives. At first, I had thought "wow! It's the goddess!" and as an armed fat old man rose up I went "Oh, crap, it's god!" He started to throw his knives at me and I was powerless against him, although I could duck behind a wooden staircase as "God's" knives flew at me. To make a long story short, I sorted how to destroy god and liberate myself just as I woke up.
In retrospect, I think this made clear to me that there is no difference between a god and a goddess.
In retrospect, I think this made clear to me that there is no difference between a god and a goddess.
Jacksnyte
Reverend
Quite honestly my response to this is: Does it really matter?!?! Who gives a @#$% rat's *&%!?!
Gaura Priya
IRL
:bow:
Flankerl
Well-Known Member
Depends. Do you think the topic of the thread is just an excuse for the real purpose of it?
Godwilling
Organic, kinetic learner
I did not suggest "it" but "It". He is also used for male dogs, male prostitutes, and male fish, and many other males which believers may not want to associate with the identity of their gods. That is why believers use "He" rather than "he" and the same could be made of "It" and "it" where "It" would refer exclusively to God and "it" to inanimate neutral things.
Godwilling
Organic, kinetic learner
Are you saying that God is hermaphrodite?
Godwilling
Organic, kinetic learner
Is that your wish or a lenguistic fact that you can prove?