Isn't putting a gender on God...

[horizon_mj1]

Let's be serious here for a second. The Christian God is a dude, who is like, totally the Father. And despite omnipresent, fails to exist within any feminine context; and he made women out of clay and a dude's rib.

So stated in what I see as more of a poetic form. I wonder at times if the simplicity of when some of these books were written, there was lack of comprehension of what the Truth is.

 

[horizon_mj1]

Yes, it would be a limitation. What use does a purely spiritual being have for gender, especially a being as vast as infinite as an all-powerful creator god?

I agree, and being a "Creator" God, would it not be seen as an insult to try and place a gender on such a Being?

 

[Parsimony]

In order for Omnipotence to be recognized there can be no boundaries. For example a woman gives birth to a child while a father gives seed for the child to exist determining the sex of the child as well. Why is it that there is such a need to place a gender on The Creator of genders?

Omnipotence is about being able to do anything. Self-identifying as a male or female personality should not logically put any boundaries on a god's power. That would imply that a god or goddess could make themselves more powerful just by abandoning their gender identity. What sense would that make? Name something that a god (who self-identifies as a male personality) would not be capable of doing solely because of his gender identity.

There may or may not be a "need" for such a label, but the use of a label would not be any obstacle for anything either.

 

[Desert Snake]

In order to "Create" male and female, how could you be one or the other?

Easily, He is the Creator, he's not everything he creates

 

[Ingledsva]

denying true Omnipotence?

One would certainly think so.




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[Levite]

denying true Omnipotence?

I suppose it could be seen as such, if one took the idea of God having a gender absolutely literally, and presumed that said gender was permanent, fixed, and incapable of shift.

The issue of omnipotence entirely aside, though, that seems like it would be a pretty poor theology. Personally, I have never met anyone who would claim to espouse such a flimsy and shallow theology.

 

[chinu]

The word God is gender-less like the word Water and Ice.
Water seems to be male whereas Ice seems to be female but they both are two different forms of one same thing.

 

[Nakosis]

denying true Omnipotence?

English doesn't have a genderless pronoun unfortunately. Well I guess we could use "it" but most people get upset when I refer to God as an it. Sometimes I go with he/she but sometimes I just get lazy.

 

[Amechania]

English doesn't have a genderless pronoun unfortunately. Well I guess we could use "it" but most people get upset when I refer to God as an it. Sometimes I go with he/she but sometimes I just get lazy.

You could just use "God."

 

[sandandfoam]

I feel like I should go with 'She' but I'm too lazy

 

[Desert Snake]

I feel like I should go with 'She' but I'm too lazy

The OP actually doesn't specify which 'god' we are talking about.

 

[Desert Snake]

'God' is a title..................in the English language it is a title..................that's why people say god thor, god zeus etc. etc.

 

[Amechania]

'God' is a title..................in the English language it is a title..................that's why people say god thor, god zeus etc. etc.

It is also a name and can be used as a personal pronoun.

 

[Desert Snake]

It is also a name and can be used as a personal pronoun.

It's not a name. It's a title, hence god thor god zeus etc as I already explained. If your talking about the Torah/Tanahh usage, the word that translates into 'god' is used the same way we use it....that's why in the bible they say 'god of such and such peoples etc, the word is the same.

 

[InChrist]

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

I think it is interesting to note that when God created humans in His own image He created them male and female. This says to me that God's Image includes all the qualities of both male and female. While I believe the scriptures indicate God is Spirit and not a gender as in the human sense of gender, I believe He has all the qualities within His Being which He has betowed upon humans as expressed by male and female. Although, while humans express these qualities in a flawed manner due to their fallen, sinful state, God expresses these qualities in perfection and wholeness.

 

[Nakosis]

You could just use "God."

I do sometimes. I'll rewrite something I wrote just so I don't give the impression that I'm applying a gender to God.

Some people prefer to think of God as having gender. Not all need to see their God as omnipotent.

 

[Desert Snake]

I do sometimes. I'll rewrite something I wrote just so I don't give the impression that I'm applying a gender to God.

Some people prefer to think of God as having gender. Not all need to see their God as omnipotent.

Are you referring to the god of the Torah, The Hebraic god?

 

[Nakosis]

Are you referring to the god of the Torah, The Hebraic god?

No, there are too many human qualities IMO attributed to the Hebraic God to consider him omnipotent.

To me God is the essence of existence. The Hebrew God seems to be pretty much male, so "he" is kind of ok in this sense.

I don't think the God of the Torah is omnipotent. There seems to be limitations on what this God is capable of.

 

[Breathe]

denying true Omnipotence?

It depends how literally one takes it and if they decide God cannot be "and".
If "God is male, not female", no. If "God is not female, God is only male", then yes.

If one believes "God is male" is only an anthromorphism, no.

 

[Levite]

No, there are too many human qualities IMO attributed to the Hebraic God to consider him omnipotent.

To me God is the essence of existence. The Hebrew God seems to be pretty much male, so "he" is kind of ok in this sense.

I don't think the God of the Torah is omnipotent. There seems to be limitations on what this God is capable of.

You understand those anthropomorphic images are just imagery, right?

We don't actually believe that God has physicality, much less gender: we just use anthropmorphic images poetically and metaphorically.

If any of us have ever believed that God literally has physicality or gender, it was well over 2500 years ago....