If there is only one God...

...Then why does 'he' have a gender? What is the point of God being a 'he' unless there is a 'Mrs God'.

Surely 'he' can just make offspring at the click of a finger / wave of a magic wand, and therefore has no use for horrible, ugly, fallible human genitalia?

What is your take on this? Personally I believe in a God, but my God has no gender as it is everything that ever was, is, and will be, making God every gender that has ever existed, male, female, hermaphrodite, asexual, etc. You, I, the computer you are looking at, your pets, the trees outside, the tramp at the end of the street, are all, to some degree, manifestations, a tiny molecule of the overall being of God.

I just feel that giving God a gender sort of trivialises the immensity of what God actually is, and maybe even portrays a degree of arrogance and disrespect on our part (Humans, arrogant and disrespectful?! Neeeveeer). I know that my beliefs are not quite in keeping with Christianity as a whole, but I feel an important part of spiritual development is making your own mind up.

Fire away :sunny:

 

Its an easier title , HE , It, THE, GOD.. humans only have so many definitions to things .. I mean really they call this entire planet EARTH.. Its 70% water goes to show how dumb they are..

My GOD is a Transsexual with 4 breasts, that spits humpback whales out its Vagina Cock..

I took as shit load of shroom juice. Pay me no mind..

 

This God of which you speak. I believe I have met he/she ... I still think it would be better just to refer to God as... God lol. So what about all this 'The Lord', 'Our Father' stuff then? Is that still easier than saying 'God'?

I'm screwed if God isn't as forgiving as the Bible says (the new testament one of course, the OT one was badass), and God does actually turn out to be a dude... He would probably punish me with his massive God cock. For eternity.

 

Maybe it's just 'he' because God is gay, so there's two male gods, and it's easier to just refer to them as 'he' as to not get them confused?

 

Look at the title of the thread dude, ONE God. That makes little sense in this context

 

Why is God a he? Because that is the way he has had himself described. He may not be a he or a she in terms of "human genitalia", as you put it but being a he or a she goes beyond the physical in this case and is used to help us understand the personality of God.

 

Because I'm not going to call myself a "she" am I? I'm definitely a "he" when I look in the mirror. Mmmmm I must add that I'm VERY satisfied with what I see in my mirror.

 

Is Narcissus a he or a she?

 

Seems man created in gods likeness and image is both male and female. Our possessive pronoun language structure itself produces the phenomena of being called he. Like orison points out, we must call "it" something. The term father in this instance is a symbol for the sense of a relational dynamic. The father progenitor establishes the platform on which the son emerges and also the son, or the child, inherits the qualities of the father in the process. The surname we all inherit from creation is I am.

 

Man wrote the book.....

oh shit, here we go again.. :leaving:

 

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some people like fairy tales man!! or they don't like to deny that what they've believed their whole life is mental.

 

Hermaphrodites are/were worshipped in certain tribes in Africa (and Australia, I think) as gods or supreme beings.

 

Id worship an Hermaphrodite...

 

I am inclined to believe that it is just man's 'spin' on things, but I can't help it bugging me a bit. The word of God is tainted in that respect.

Very interesting. I have heard of various cultures doing that. Gender just doesn't make sense to me in the case of monotheism though

 

Until the 1970s, it was the custom to use the pronoun "he", "man" and "mankind" in any situation where gender was uncertain. Any reference to humans was always to "men"--e.g., "all men are created equal.." in the Declaration of Independence. Also, the Hebrews were a patriarchal nomad society and a typical pastoral warrior society with no fixed abode, worshipping a male Skygod. More settled agrarian societies originally tended to favor fertilitygoddesses, until they were conquered by the pastoral nomads. Archeaolgical discovery of hundreds of figurines of naked fertility goddesses at late monarchic sites in Judah suggests persistent, widespread worship of female deities, especially Yaweh's consort Ashera.

 

An easy answer to your question is, we can not fathom something that is so powerful and merciful. It is there because it was always there. We were not meant to understand GOD but to obey through faith.

 

These days, I get to chuckle every time this subject comes up.....

I used to read the Bible and believe the same as a whole lot of other folks. Then, while doing some research in Archaeology, I found some reference to earlier religions than the Ancient Hebrews. Further study shows that the Ancient Hebrews took theirs from what had existed before. Even to God having a wife/counterpart named Asharah. (circa 800 BC) Even the "Holy Trinity" we have today comes from an earlier religion where the Great God Anu, his son Enki, and his son Enlil made up the Triad. Polytheism was actually practiced quite extensively by the decendents of Adam and Eve until about 600 or 700 BC when Asharah and the other female deities were written out of the bible. But, the Ancient Hebrews were around as far back as 1800 BC. In fact, the Great God Anu had children by at least 3 female deities, and those children became "lessor Gods". And, that goes back to 5000 BC and before.

According to the texts that go back before the Dead Sea Scrolls, Noah was not Noah. His name was Utanapishtim. He was told by God (Enki) to "Tear down the house and build a boat". The same story, but it pre-dates the Hebrews by a thousand years.

Now, I ask you.... Who is right?

 

There is no god but god
There is no god but god
There is no god but the one true god
There is no god but the hidden god
There is no god
There is no god!
There is no GOD!!

Allah Akhbar!

 

The bible was written in the time where every man thought chicks were just to have kids and be slaves, so naturally they couldnt make the higher power a woman cause everyone would think maybe they do deserve respect, so they mad god a he. As always, i disagree with the bible immensely..

 

I don't think anybody claims that Judaism was the first religion. Anu and Enki were Sumerian deities, and yes,
there are areas of correspondence between Mesopotamian creation and flood stories in the Ennuma Elish and the Gilgamesh epic and the corresponding stories in Genesis. This could be because the Hebrews got them from the Sumerians and Babylonians or they were both reporting the same events that one or the other garbled. The god of Abraham was addressed as El, which was also the (culturally similar) Ugaritic name for the high god, chief of the council of gods, and was the "El" in Israel. He was called El until Moses encountered him on Mount Sinai, when he gave his name as Yahweh, but explained he was the same God previously known to Abraham as El-Shaddai. Some scholars believe that Yahweh was already worshiped by the Midianites in the Sinai desert around the mountain, and there is an Egyptian reference to the Shasu (Bedouins) of Yhw, who may have been the Midianites or possibly the Israelites. So what does all this mean? The secularist interpretation would be that the Hebrews simply borrowed some their religion from other people. Or maybe neighboring peoples had an inkling of the truth before the Hebrews. We're back to the same question: who is right?

As for Ashera, there's a difference between Hebrew religion, as expounded by the priests and prophets, and the popular version which included such "heresies" as Ashera worship up to the time of the Babylonian captivity. In fact the priests and prophets blamed Ashera worship for the Babylonian captivity, after which it ceased. Even before that, King Josiah sought to purge the country of Asherah:"and he boroke down the houes of the male cult prostitutes..where women wove hangings for the Aherah." (2 Kings 23:4-7) Ashera was a mother goddess identified in Ugaritic religion as the consort of El and in popular (but not priestly) Israelite religion as the consort of Yahweh. She was also worshipped by the Akkadians and Hittites.