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Is the christian god male or female or???

Its the christian god..

  • male

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • female

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • don't know

    Votes: 3 17.6%
  • ???

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • Total voters
    17

wellwisher

Well-Known Member
In symbolic tradition mother is matter. Mother Nature, is about the material world. The female element is connected to physical reality. In that sense the god of science is female, since science deal with things one can perceive with the five sense; tangible matter.

Spirit is masculine. Spirit is not tangible or matter, per se. As an analogy computers have hardware and software. The hardware is the feminine side of this couple, since it is based on matter. The software is coding that can animate the hardware, just as the sperm cell animates the ovum.

God cannot be seen by science, which is a complaint of atheism, since he is not matter, but is more like coding. This coding is perceived, based on its impact on the hardware of the brain. Born again is the spirit working on your brain to trigger a new beginning.

In tradition, the spirit animates the soul, with the soul analogous to our physical memory. An eternal soul, that would allow you to persist forever, is based on your memories that make you, you. If you still had all your memories, without a physical body, you would still have the essence of you. Although shallow people who live on the surface of themselves may be a lost soul without that shell.

When the spirit animates the soul, this is like a creative element that manipulates your personal neural data base, to create an internal output that one can perceive through feelings, sensations, intuitions, visions, etc. This gives us the feeling of consciousness. The soul without the spirit is like a static data storage disk.

In Genesis, when the universe was created, the memory or soul of the pre-humans, which was based on their natural instinct observing nature, was manipulated by the spirit. The natural data; natural soul, was rearranged to create a sense of creation and order, which was scribed with written language. They had all the data, in their soul, but it needed a fresh new spirit; outside nature, to rearrange the furniture, so civilization could appear; modern man. God forming the spirit of Adam.

This affect is similar to a new hit song appearing. Before you hear the song, All the raw materials; words and instruments, are already stored in your brain. But these data points need to rearranged to make this new hit song conscious. Once you hear the song, the spirit of the song organizes your memory and you find yourself singing as you walk.

The musician who creates the song, first hears this song in their mind, with a creative spirit working within them reorganizing the furniture of their soul, They transmits this new song to others; spirit of music. Music is not matter but ti can move the soul.
 
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Wildswanderer

Veteran Member
I've heard many say male and some say female.

If the god is female, why is it said man was created first?

Fyi...
??? =any, all, neither, none



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Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Neither. They are both created in his image, so God has both male and female traits. Nurture and leadership both for example.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
The Christian god isn't a biological entity, so why would it have a sex? Wouldn't the entire concept be non-applicable? Being made "in the image" of something need not (and probably wasn't intended to) be literal.
 

setarcos

The hopeful or the hopeless?
I've heard many say male and some say female.

If the god is female, why is it said man was created first?

Fyi...
??? =any, all, neither, none



Edit...

Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
I believe the image of God refers to self awareness. A conscious aspect within the universe capable of self discernment.
However before one can answer specifically, because we live in a world which seems to embraces chaos, I would have to ask how you define male or female?
 

setarcos

The hopeful or the hopeless?
Is the christian god male or female or???

"Christian God" phrasing Proves it all

Equal not to God
BUT
Equal to Christian human mind

HENCE
Maya = illusion (furthest away from God)
? Remove the Christian as a proper noun and you are still left with the concept of God, any god, as being informationally communicated via the human mind. So you must contradictorily be saying that by speaking of God humans are placing themselves furthest from God - Maya=illusion. But if in speaking of God as illusion then there is no God of which we may speak illusorily about. Hence Maya = illusion = furthest away from God = informationally null nonsense. We must properly define God before we can speak of God. Christians have defined their God of which they speak by claiming revelation. You've defined their God as illusion by what criteria? How do you define God?
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Which of the Christian (biblical) gods?

At least El, the creator god from Genesis, is not (only) male.
"God" is a gender neutral word to me, I refer to "god" as "it". Named gods, who have a traditional sex get gender pronouns.

"Which of the Christian (biblical) gods?"

Didn't know the Christian bible has more than one god.
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
The Christian god isn't a biological entity, so why would it have a sex? Wouldn't the entire concept be non-applicable? Being made "in the image" of something need not (and probably wasn't intended to) be literal.
Strictly speaking you don't need to have a sex to have a gender.
The rub when talking to Christians is acknowledging that a literal interpretation means God assigned himself a gender identity despite being a sexless spirit. Literally 'I am He.' Less of a problem when you have a more allegorical approach to scripture, and having gender being more an artifact of human language than something a spirit would use.

But then again lots of religions have sexless gendered spirits so *shrug.*
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
If God is presumed to be incorporeal, then gender is not something that applies. Gender, as any Republican will tell you, is definitively decided by which body parts you have, and incorporeal entities don't have any body parts.

Now, presumably one might ask what God identifies as, but you didn't.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
If God is omnipotent, God is all sexes:

- can God do (insert indicator of a particular sex)?
- if God can do anything, then yes.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
If God is presumed to be incorporeal, then gender is not something that applies. Gender, as any Republican will tell you, is definitively decided by which body parts you have, and incorporeal entities don't have any body parts.
That is only in some languages, English being one. Other languages, like French, don't have the concept of neutral or genderless, everything has a gender.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
"Which of the Christian (biblical) gods?"

Didn't know the Christian bible has more than one god.
The translators and editors tried to hide it but missed a spot here and there. Take the first commandment. It doesn't say that there is only one god but that the Israelites should worship only one god. Some gods are even mentioned by name: Baal and Moloch.
 

setarcos

The hopeful or the hopeless?
There is one God, the God of Israel, who is the God we Christians worship,. through and in the name of the Son.
I think you should be careful when you say there is no Christian God. The proper name "Christian God" denotes the God whose only begotten son was Jesus the Christ. It is a God specific to Christianity in some respects. Catholicism is a Christian religion by definition therefore if you are a Christian, Catholic or not, then you must believe that the Christian God exists.
God bless and keep you on your journey.
 

muhammad_isa

Well-Known Member
I think you should be careful when you say there is no Christian God. The proper name "Christian God" denotes the God whose only begotten son was Jesus the Christ. It is a God specific to Christianity in some respects. Catholicism is a Christian religion by definition therefore if you are a Christian, Catholic or not, then you must believe that the Christian God exists.
God bless and keep you on your journey.
No .. I don't believe in "personal gods" .
I believe that there is only One God .. One Father .. One Jehovah .. One Allah.

In English, God is referred to as "He", because historically, "it" is not so respectful.
"In His own image" refers to spiritual attributes, in how our minds work. We have also been given responsibility.

God [He] is neither male or female. He creates what He wills.
He has created sexual and asexual creatures.
 
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