Can God Be a Woman?

Windwalker said:

A little fun fact about nature that most don't know. All fetuses start out as females in the womb and later differentiate into males after about 6 weeks. Genetics has proven this to be the case in all mammals, not just humans.

WATCH: We Were Once All Female

This seems a rather odd thing in nature if we as men assume God creates men first, doesn't it?

I don't read the story of Genesis as a book of science. I think it speaks truth, but it's not meant to be read scientifically. That's why God created scientists to help with us with understanding such things as biology.

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He only created one man, Adam. And from Adam he made the woman. He put Adam to sleep and took a rib of his to make the woman. So the woman was made with the same DNA that the man was made from. Actually the woman is made with the DNA man was created with. All other humans come from Adam and Eve. So all humans are from Adam, even the woman.

Now here is something to think about, did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

"So Jehovah God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place. And Jehovah God built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man."-Genesis 2:21-22.

Here is something else to think about. The rib bone is one of the few that just grows back naturally if it is removed.

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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I have problems with thinking of the universe's ultimate principle (that's how I conceive of the meaning of the word 'God') as a "person" at all. (Certainly not as a biological organism.) So both male and female wouldn't seem to be applicable as far as I'm concerned.

Yazata said:

I have problems with thinking of the universe's ultimate principle (that's how I conceive of the meaning of the word 'God') as a "person" at all. So both male and female wouldn't seem to be applicable as far as I'm concerned.

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Why is it hard to think of God as a person? He himself reasons with us this way:

"The One who made the ear, can he not hear?
The One who formed the eye, can he not see?
The One correcting the nations, can he not reprove?
He is the One who imparts knowledge to people!"
-Psalm 94:9-10.

Definitely male.

Eyes to See said:

He only created one man, Adam. And from Adam he made the woman. He put Adam to sleep and took a rib of his to make the woman. So the woman was made with the same DNA that the man was made from. Actually the woman is made with the DNA man was created with. All other humans come from Adam and Eve. So all humans are from Adam, even the woman.

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So then God created Adam as both male and female. In other words, Adam was both to begin with. Otherwise, where would Eve have gotten her girl genes from? I think it's a problem to read Genesis as a book of science. This is one small example of why.

Eyes to See said:

Now here is something to think about, did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

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Yes. Homosapiens evolved from earlier mammal species, and all mammals have navels. Adam and Eve were mammals. Humans are mammals. So yes, they would have had navels like all mammal species do.

The story in Genesis is not a literal scientific account of how God creates species. It's written as if for children. You don't read your children science books before they are old enough to understand such complexities, do you? They wouldn't understand it, and it wouldn't exactly inspire their imaginations at such a young age, would it?

Even the Bible talks about not giving strong meat to those who are still on milk, doesn't it? But I do think Christians today need to be weaned a little in this regard. There's no reason their faith cannot handle modern science.

God transcends human gender, but *also* appears in whatever way is most meaningful to the devotee. For that reason, I call her "Mother."

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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It cannot, as it cannot be a man.
God is a non-gender if you like to think of it as such, only not only mentally rather also physically.
It has no definition of male or female, as it contains them both (as do we).
Based on the OT, we are made in its image. the word image is not a "duplicate" rather sharing the same structure (or concept).
In a nut shell, it will be the same as asking if life or energy is a female or a male. it is both and non of them
Interesting that the OT and Evolution describe the same concept in that matter.

God is a concept theoried by human theists who are only human.

Who said God told them.

So as we humans own man bodies or woman.bodies we think as the term gender.

God doesn't think God is discussed.

Humans own use thinking to survive.

So if we claim some type of deity created creation it doesn't own gender.

But if you use human consciousness we hear both man and woman's thoughts about any topic chosen.

Science hence asks what was the deity type. We said it was the eternal being. A portion of the body separated into the gods.

Science doesn't like that answer as they want to know it to get it to destroy it.

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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Can't God be any He (oops, Xe) wants? But would He (oops, again!) be a trans-woman, cis-woman? Or perhaps hermaphrodite (you know, all the bits and all the psyches combined in one spiritual corpus). That would, at very least, make for a most interesting Trinity!

Eyes to See said:

I agree with all this except for the fact that it is a bad habit to call God "Father." He calls himself our Father. We are told by his son Jesus Christ:

“You must pray, then, this way: Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified."-Matthew 6:9.

While following our Creator's good, wise, and loving counsel may become habit, it is not a bad one!

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I have often wondered why humans don't realise humans live in and with the heavens? At the ground level heavens surrounds us....water oxygen heavens.

And I believe the reason is because Jesus Christ is about CH gases above us burnt sacrificed by man's sciences that affected humans natural consciousness by animal and human images appearing in cloud cooling.

So discuss the heavens above us forgetting biology lives inside the heavens naturally itself with our own just a human father.

Windwalker said:

So then God created Adam as both male and female. In other words, Adam was both to begin with. Otherwise, where would Eve have gotten her girl genes from? I think it's a problem to read Genesis as a book of science. This is one small example of why.


Yes. Homosapiens evolved from earlier mammal species, and all mammals have navels. Adam and Eve were mammals. Humans are mammals. So yes, they would have had navels like all mammal species do.

The story in Genesis is not a literal scientific account of how God creates species. It's written as if for children. You don't read your children science books before they are old enough to understand such complexities, do you? They wouldn't understand it, and it wouldn't exactly inspire their imaginations at such a young age, would it?

Even the Bible talks about not giving strong meat to those who are still on milk, doesn't it? But I do think Christians today need to be weaned a little in this regard. There's no reason their faith cannot handle modern science.

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Adam had the DNA for all humankind in him, male, female, black, white, red, everything.

Evangelicalhumanist said:

Can't God be any He (oops, Xe) wants? But would He (oops, again!) be a trans-woman, cis-woman? Or perhaps hermaphrodite (you know, all the bits and all the psyches combined in one spiritual corpus). That would, at very least, make for a most interesting Trinity!

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Yes, that is true. Still, many find comfort in seeing God as a Mother.

Eyes to See said:

Adam had the DNA for all humankind in him, male, female, black, white, red, everything.

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A man human using words describing Gods causes wrote the bible as a human.

Theme a man human looking advising about a man human about himself via his brothers life. Observation in science.

You try to claim a thinking God thought as a being then created a human man owning everything.

Theist man who said by behaviour man in a group....I claim I own everything. Gave myself the human man status I own everything. I hence will change whatever I want. Human man's destroyer behaviour.

Which is a man's thought ego statement only. As no man is God ...God didn't create you.

The predetermined god in science the planet only as it owned the gases within O a sealed body. Hence said science you cannot discuss its spirit gases twice.

Why it was categorically stated you cannot be the planets type.

The theme is no man. A mad not a man anymore as it was genesis
exodus. An explanation why man's genesis no longer lived its present origin. Evicted with garden body combusting.

A man.
A dam. Not a man.

AD a science term was after zero.

Zero was stated held fusion of the earth.

A dam N. A review why man's genesis left.

A man is identified as a human the man human existing to be named a man owning man's human genesis DNA.

Only in the physical presence a man human does human DNA be expressed.

Notating when you discuss just DNA you aren't discussing a man.

As a human man is whole complete a human man bodily unseen by another as information.

Was a man's scientific status stating scientists who thesis by data are lying. As the living man is observed first.

You can't thesis when a human didn't exist as to claim status the human you have to exist to be stated the type a human.

As natural owns dominion first.

Science of man removed man's genesis. His first observed life removal was after a ground dust fission reaction the teaching.

Ashoka said:

Interesting. How do you see God, then?

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Personally, it makes little sense anthropomorphizing or personifying an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent force/entity.
Attempting to ascribe human characteristics like ego and emotion to a god seems like an attempt to create one in man's image rather than the other way around.
Also, the idea that God's beholden to and incapable of deviating from scripture written by mortal men seems highly blasphemous and idolatrous to me.

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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In these days of equality between the sexes, God is sometimes regarded as neither male nor female, so that when (for example) [he] created male and female, [he] could be the template for both.

For some reason, there seems to be an aversion to describing this version of God as an hermaphrodite, but that would appear to be the correct term.

Of course, there's archeological evidence from before the bible was written that Yahweh originally had a consort, as was usual with Canaanite and other gods, and her name was Asherah. It must have been a bitter divorce, since [he] never seems to mention her. All that points to God being male, at least in [his] early editions.

Outside the Abrahamic religions, of course, goddesses abound, in Greek, Roman and Celtic cultures, and farther east, in the Hindu religion, &c &c. If I had to pick two, I'd say Athena (smart, just, and skilled in warfare) and Aphrodite (smart, hot, and political), but that may be due to my limited knowledge.

Is it appropriate to bring animals into this conversation? If so, I've always admired Ganesha, whose avatar is an elephant, and who loves to learn and to party.

The Egyptians, of course, had divine hippos, eagles, cats and so on ─ and like many others, they personified the sun as a god and the moon as well, both male.

If there's a lesson in all this, it may be that we make gods and goddesses in the image of ourselves and add some of the features of nature that seem important to us.

Eyes to See said:

Adam had the DNA for all humankind in him, male, female, black, white, red, everything.

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Don't we all? Isn't that the marvel of evolution?

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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Because to be female, one has to have some features like a womb. God in my theology is called Wajibul Wujud which means the necessary being. This necessary being is the creator which means God existed prior to all creation. That means creations of gender, creation of the universe, etc.

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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Everything is Masculine. Everything is Feminine. The All is everything and within everything is The All. The All cannot be added to subtracted from multiplied or divided. Spirit is no more male than it is female.

If I were to indulge and begin doing what was accurately described by @kaninchen, as idolatry. I would say neither aspect preceded the other, rather they are a pair of opposites that require one another to give the other contrast to its value.
It is not a new concept to think of a masculine 'father' God and feminine environment of incubation 'mother' Nature.

Ashoka said:

Hey guys, as someone who sees God as a woman (The Goddess) I'm curious to hear what other religions think of a female deity. Can your God be a female? Why or why not?

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God actually transcends gender. He does not have a body or form, and does not have male parts or female parts. The thing is, a pronoun must be chosen. In Hebrew, there is no neutral pronoun, so it is a choice between he/him and she/her. In an age where women were considered chattel, it made more sense to refer to God as he/him. But that doesn't mean he's male.

Does God breed or reproduce somehow? Why would God need a sex?
Doesn't God just speak things into existence?