SugaCubez352
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This is a serious question I have had which has gone unanswered.
It concerns the God of the Bible (or any God actually). Why is Jehovah a He and not a She?
When I think of gender - or rather the sex of a person - I think of private parts. Girls have girl things and boy have boy things.
Now from what basics I learned in school abut biology and genetics is that if a fetus has an XX chromosomal pair then that causes the endocrine system of the fetus to begin producing female hormones which morphs the fetus into a female proper.
If the fetus has a XY chromosomal pair then the endocrine system of the fetus will produce androgins other such male hormones which turns the fetus into what we know of as a male.
So from what little I know of human language... specifically English... is that if something has the private parts of a XY Male, then we call it a "HE" and if something has the private parts of a XX Female then we call it a "SHE," and if something as no private parts like plants and bugs, then we most often call it an "IT."
Thus, what exactly makes Jehovah a He and not a She or an It? This is a real important question because as far as I know we also ascribe certain forms of the word "god" to things that are either a "he," or a "she," such as "He gods" are Gods, and "She gods" are Goddesses. So the follow up question would be: Why is Jehovah God believed by it's adherents to be a God and not a Goddess?
I assume that Jehovah is some kind of spirit person. When leads me to ask: Does spirit have sex/gender? What is that gender or sex of the spirit based on?
How does a spirit, which to me evokes the thought of "energy" or ghosts, have a sex or gender?
Because to me, as one author I have read said: "Man has always created his gods, rather than his gods creating him." - Anton LaVey
From my perspective and understanding of things, it appears as those we (as in humans) are obviously creating our gods we worship. And that when we create or invent such gods, we often PROJECT our own humanness and what we know and understand of things at a certain moment onto and into the gods we create.
Such as gender for instance. Also such as the so very common human emotion of Jealousy as in how the Bible describes in the 10 Commandments how God is a "Jealous" God, which to me - just my personally opinion and feelings - is a really petty emotion for a god of any kind to have.
I also see this "human projectionism" in God in "His" other all too human qualities and characteristics. He is spiteful and vengeful... he plays favorites with Jews and not gentiles... he needs to rest for at least a day out of the work week... he's even described in many places in the Bible with human bodily things like legs and arms and a head and face... he sits on a throne like a king (I wonder where they got that idea from).
We or I, see this human projectionism too in Jesus and Marry, and the angles. Why isn't Jesus black or Asian? Why do the angles look like white men in robes? How come I never seen an angle with an afro?
But I'm not just picking on the God of Christianity either. Because if you look at the Buddha in China he looks Chinese? Then if you go to Southeast Asia the Buddha looks Khmer, or Thai. And if you go to India he end up looking Indian.
Now we are seeing this same human projectionism in the field of current religion in regards to what new sciences and technological advancements we have had such that now you have wackos like Sitchen in his 12th planet Saga and von Daniken saying that aliens came to the earth and mixed their genes with ape women?
Or more bizarre is the Joy of Satan and how their Satan is some alien who was a genetic engineer named Enki that made humans.
Doesn't it become visible to see this human projectionism when we study closely all human religions and gods our species as a whole have been writing about and worshiping since the first stanzas of the Vedas written by unknown hands to the wacko alien cults cropping up today that we actually do create our gods and not vise versa? Or do most of us need a few thousand more years of this religion and god thing to pass before we come to the conclusion?
Why is Jehovah God a He and not a Goddess?
It concerns the God of the Bible (or any God actually). Why is Jehovah a He and not a She?
When I think of gender - or rather the sex of a person - I think of private parts. Girls have girl things and boy have boy things.
Now from what basics I learned in school abut biology and genetics is that if a fetus has an XX chromosomal pair then that causes the endocrine system of the fetus to begin producing female hormones which morphs the fetus into a female proper.
If the fetus has a XY chromosomal pair then the endocrine system of the fetus will produce androgins other such male hormones which turns the fetus into what we know of as a male.
So from what little I know of human language... specifically English... is that if something has the private parts of a XY Male, then we call it a "HE" and if something has the private parts of a XX Female then we call it a "SHE," and if something as no private parts like plants and bugs, then we most often call it an "IT."
Thus, what exactly makes Jehovah a He and not a She or an It? This is a real important question because as far as I know we also ascribe certain forms of the word "god" to things that are either a "he," or a "she," such as "He gods" are Gods, and "She gods" are Goddesses. So the follow up question would be: Why is Jehovah God believed by it's adherents to be a God and not a Goddess?
I assume that Jehovah is some kind of spirit person. When leads me to ask: Does spirit have sex/gender? What is that gender or sex of the spirit based on?
How does a spirit, which to me evokes the thought of "energy" or ghosts, have a sex or gender?
Because to me, as one author I have read said: "Man has always created his gods, rather than his gods creating him." - Anton LaVey
From my perspective and understanding of things, it appears as those we (as in humans) are obviously creating our gods we worship. And that when we create or invent such gods, we often PROJECT our own humanness and what we know and understand of things at a certain moment onto and into the gods we create.
Such as gender for instance. Also such as the so very common human emotion of Jealousy as in how the Bible describes in the 10 Commandments how God is a "Jealous" God, which to me - just my personally opinion and feelings - is a really petty emotion for a god of any kind to have.
I also see this "human projectionism" in God in "His" other all too human qualities and characteristics. He is spiteful and vengeful... he plays favorites with Jews and not gentiles... he needs to rest for at least a day out of the work week... he's even described in many places in the Bible with human bodily things like legs and arms and a head and face... he sits on a throne like a king (I wonder where they got that idea from).
We or I, see this human projectionism too in Jesus and Marry, and the angles. Why isn't Jesus black or Asian? Why do the angles look like white men in robes? How come I never seen an angle with an afro?
But I'm not just picking on the God of Christianity either. Because if you look at the Buddha in China he looks Chinese? Then if you go to Southeast Asia the Buddha looks Khmer, or Thai. And if you go to India he end up looking Indian.
Now we are seeing this same human projectionism in the field of current religion in regards to what new sciences and technological advancements we have had such that now you have wackos like Sitchen in his 12th planet Saga and von Daniken saying that aliens came to the earth and mixed their genes with ape women?
Or more bizarre is the Joy of Satan and how their Satan is some alien who was a genetic engineer named Enki that made humans.
Doesn't it become visible to see this human projectionism when we study closely all human religions and gods our species as a whole have been writing about and worshiping since the first stanzas of the Vedas written by unknown hands to the wacko alien cults cropping up today that we actually do create our gods and not vise versa? Or do most of us need a few thousand more years of this religion and god thing to pass before we come to the conclusion?
Why is Jehovah God a He and not a Goddess?
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