Is God Male or Female?
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God transcends gender.
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good question.  i had never thought about this before.  any operation would be going against the will of god, wouldn't it, starcameo?  if god had intended the person to be either male or female, god would have made them as such, right?  \n\njohn_killebrew: please explain how being self-aware proves the existence of god.
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i don't think because it's sth like abstract things which we only feel but not touch..for exmpl. we feel love but love doesn't have a gender so i believe God has a different dimension beyond our consemption..so whether God has a gender or not is not the matter..
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I wrote a paper about language used for God while I was in college, I'll just paste parts of it in here where it fits in between my thoughts now.\n\nGod being referred to as a man is a perfect example of the overuse of a metaphor. the metaphor is supposed to bring out certain feelings and allow the reader to relate better to the subject at hand. the overuse of a metaphor obviously proves to have problems, when in this case, referring to God as a woman somehow tends to turn heads.\n\nit seems everyone is hitting it with saying that God is neither male nor female. biblically, there are referrences to giving God both male and female characteristics, as well as comparisons to animals and inanimate objects. God is all things. whoever quoted the I Am scripture got it right.\n\nmale references:\n\n"Along with God as a father, there are other male images for God in the Bible. God is referred to as a shepherd in Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 34 (103). God is referred to as “. . . LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth” in Psalm 47:2 and a judge and king in Psalm 96:10 (103-104). God is portrayed to have great strength and courage. In Psalm 24:8, God is referenced as being a warrior. It says, “Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.”"\n\nfemale references:\n\n"God is also referred to in feminine aspects. In Isaiah 49:15, God is given the characteristics of a nursing mother. Isaiah 66:13, states that “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem” (104). God is given the characteristics of a midwife in Psalm 22:9-10 and gives birth in Deuteronomy 32:18 and Isaiah 42:14. Characteristics of women by giving birth can also be found in John 3, when God gave his “only begotten son.”"\n\nanimal references:\n\n"God is also equated with animals throughout the Old and New Testaments. In Matthew 23, as well as Luke 13, God is spoken of as a mother hen gathering her chicks under her wings. In Deuteronomy 32 God is referenced to be a mother eagle, and then again a few animal references are made in Hosea 13:7-8. It states, “So I will come upon them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk by the path. Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open. Like a lion I will devour them; a wild animal will tear them apart” (98)."\n\ninanimate object references:\n\n"Throughout the Bible God is also referenced as inanimate objects. In Deuteronomy 4:24, God is “a consuming fire” and in Psalm 84 God is “a sun and shield” (98). In Deuteronomy 32, God is a rock. However, “‘Rock’ applied to God implies a set of qualities, particularly ones that focus on stability and reliability, that rose in the consciousness of the believing community at a particular time” (102)."\n\nit is also important to note that God's name, which is "’ehyeh ‘asher ‘ehyeh," or roughly YHWH is found over 6,000 times in the old testament. it is roughly and most often translated as "I am (who I am)," and is a form of "to be." due to the fact that jews regarded God's name as sacred and should never have been spoken, they often substituted YHWH with "Adonai" (which is "kyrios" in greek and "dominus" in latin). all of those forms are masculine and translate as "lord." lord obviously has masculine, dominant conotations. since all these forms are masculine, the masculine idea of God was pushed over God's name. God is often also referred to as "elohim" which has no gender. the shortened, "eloh," however is feminine and means goddess, so the addition of "im" at the end could make the translation of the word merely mean, “god,” “gods,” “goddess,” or “diety.”\n\nwhoever stated that the term for spirit was ruah and was feminine was also correct. it is important to note that the spiri
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Men created gods and goddesses to explain the things he couldn't understand. As men evolved and learn ways to understand what was going on around him, the need lessened for deities. But even after all of these years, most of us still haven't let go those beliefs in things greater than ourselves. It's in our nature. Call it faith if you will. It may be right, or it may be wrong, but it is still what we personally choose to believe in.
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God transcends gender and can be referred to as He or She. The Jewish male-dominated society influenced the tradition of referring to God as male. \n\nHowever, the same Jewish tradition refers to the Wisdom of God as female. Christians would call Her the Holy Spirit.\n\nThe Bible actually as several images of God as female:\n\nGenesis 1:26-27 Women and Men created in God’s image\n\n“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God s/he created them; male and female God created them.”\n\nHosea 11:3-4 God described as a mother\n\nGod: “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I who took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.”\n\nHosea 13:8 God described as a mother bear\n\nGod: “I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs…”\n\nDeuteronomy 32:11-12 God described as a mother eagle\n\n“As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young as it spreads its wings, takes them up and bears them aloft on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him…”\n\nDeuteronomy 32:18 God who gives birth\n\n“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.”\n\nIsaiah 66:13 God as a comforting mother\n\nGod: “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”\n\nIsaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother\n\nGod: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”\n\nIsaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor\n\nGod: “For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.”\n\nJeremiah 44:25 Queen of Heaven\n\n“Thus says…the God of Israel: You and your wives have accomplished in deeds what you declared in words, ‘We are determined to …make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.’ By all means, keep your vows and make your libations!”\n\nPsalm131:2 God as a Mother \n\n“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.”\n\nPsalm 123:2 God compared to a woman \n\n“As the eyes of a servant look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until God has mercy on us.”\n\nMatthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God as a Mother Hen\n\nJesus: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”\n\nLuke 15:8-10 God as woman looking for her lost coin\n\nJesus: “Or what woman having ten silver coins, is she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” \n\nWith love in Christ.
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God is one and all encompassing. This means he is male and female, or neither. It is just for ease of expression that we say He, but She is just as valid, for it makes no difference. God is everything and every no thing.
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God is a joke... jokes don't have genders
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God does not believe in a Supreme Being (relative to himself) or religion, by definition, God is an atheist.\n\nHumans invent Gods in their own images, so you might say he is within everyone.
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masculine. it does end in -as which would generally signal that it would be feminine, but there are exceptions and this is one of them. \n\np.s. dios is god.
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Genesis 1:27 says "So God created man in His own image:in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis chapter 2 states that woman was taken out of man but prior to that in the verse above, God had stated what the end result will be. \n\nSo yes, the raw materials were different but the results are the same - both made in the image of God. Mind you, if woman was taken from man who was taken from the earth then she was ultimately taken from the earth as well.\n\nFinally, in Gen 2:7, "God formed man out of dust and breathed into his nostril the breath of life; and man became a living being." The same spirit that gave man life is the same spirit that made the woman a living being. The animals and plants were not treated in this way! Man and woman are different from the others because we were made in God's image to have dominion over all the rest of creation.
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Your "she" made me laugh. Indeed, the idea of God being a male is in everyone's mind, although we know he doesn't need to be any gender. \n\nYour question could be "Who programmed God?"\nI don't think at all that way, but respect your original question and smile.... ;-)
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God appears to be quite a sexist bit of work. Could be jealousy.... as a 'masculine' deity, he can't give birth.Maybe he could do with a bit of balance. (shrugs)
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In examining Scripture, two facts become clear: First, that God is a Spirit, and does not possess human characteristics or limitations; second, that all the evidence contained in Scripture agrees that God revealed Himself to mankind in a male form. First of all, God’s true nature needs to be understood. God is a person, obviously, because God exhibits all the characteristics of personhood: God has a mind, a will, an intellect, and emotions. God communicates, has relationships, and God’s personal actions are evidenced throughout Scripture.\n\nAs John 4:24 states, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” Since God is a spiritual being, God does not possess physical human characteristics; however, sometimes figurative language used in Scripture assigns human characteristics to God in order to make it possible for man to understand God. This assignment of human characteristics to describe God is called “anthropomorphism.” Anthropomorphism is simply a means for God (a spiritual being) to communicate truth about His nature to mankind, a physical being. Since man is a physical being, man is limited in his understanding of those things beyond the physical realm, and anthropomorphism in Scripture helps man to understand who God is.\n\nSome of the difficulty comes in examining the fact that man is created in God’s image. Genesis 1:26-27 says “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”\n\nWhat this means is that both man and woman are created in the image of God, in that they are greater than all the other creations as they, like God, have a mind, will, intellect, emotions, and moral capacity. Animals do not possess a moral capacity, and do not possess an immaterial component like mankind does. Genesis tells us that when man was created by God, God breathed the “breath of life” into man. No other creation is described this way, and that “breath of life” is the spiritual component that man alone possesses. God created man to have a relationship with Him; man is the only creation designed for that purpose, and that “breath of life” is evidence of that.\n\nThat said, man and woman are only patterned after the image of God—they are not tiny “carbon copies” of God, and the fact that there are men and women does not require that God have male and female features, or that God be a woman. Remember, being made in the image of God has nothing to do with physical characteristics.\n\nWe know that God is a spiritual being, and does not possess physical characteristics. This does not limit, however, how God may choose to reveal Himself to mankind. Scripture contains all the revelation God gave to man about Himself, and so is the only really objective source of information about God. In looking at what Scripture tells us, there are several observations of evidence about the form in which God revealed Himself to mankind:\n\nTo begin with, Scripture contains almost 170 references to God as the “Father.” By necessity, one cannot be a father unless he is male. If what was meant to be communicated was that God chose to be revealed to man in a female form, then the word “mother” would have occurred in these places, not “father.” In the Old and New Testament both, masculine pronouns are used over and over again in reference to God.\n\nDeuteronomy 34:10 has this to say about Moses, who wrote the first five books of Scripture, the Pentateuch: “And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.” This verse describes how close Moses’ relationship with God was. Since Moses walked so closely with God, we can be
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the creator of all life is a goddess.\nsince when men are creative?....or intelligent, hehe?
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If there was a God, and there isn't. But if there was for the sake of your question. He would be a she and she would be a lesbian.\n\nMore:Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.\nIs he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.\nIs he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?\nIs he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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I believe that God is neither male nor female, but rather a Spirit. He has both male and female qualities. For example, He has the protective, strong side that can be classified with males and the caring, compassionate side that we identify as feminine. He created both man and woman to be like Him, not only externally but internally as well. Jesus, however, was male. In order to come down to earth and become human, He needed to have a gender. But God Himself is neither. Hope this helps, God bless!