What is God male or female?
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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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First God was the Sun, Then God evolved into being a Woman (during Egyptian Culture aka: Goddess). Then God evolved into being an Idol (Paganism), Then around the time that Judaism got it's start God evolved in being a Man. God is whatever religion says  God is, Religion has the power to make God into a corn muffin if they so desire. Who has the power to go against the Global Religions? No one.
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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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God is a spirit without a physical sex. While He is often refered to as a father figure He is also compared to a hen with chicks and a mother with a suckling child. In many languages the word parent is often said fathers. Matthew 23:37 ...how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings...\nThe gender of God is not as important as knowing that He is real and does love us as His children. John 3:16&17. God ripped out a third of His person and sent Him to live on earth as a man. God is not as some people say attempting to send us to Hell, but to save us from it. I'm a mom and I would do anything to save my children and God is the same way.
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Man's greatest need is this: A deep, close, and personal relationship with God.\nWhy do I say this?: (First of all before I qualify my answer I believe by the word "man" in your question you are not referring to gender but rather the human species - which includes both male and female.)\nGod created man to have a personal relationship with Him, and for man to depend on Him for everything He needs in this life. \nSo without God man is hopeless, and eternally lost. To get more on this please visit one of the following websites:\nhttp://rhm.gospelcom.net/yours/\nhttp://www.navigators.org/us/
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I'm not sure that god has a gender.  I think that is a human convention used to help us feable humans comprehend and relate to a god.  After all God is omnipotent and logically must be able to relate to both genders.  If God was a man or woman the God would run the risk of being biased.
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Because God is unknowable. (Honestly, the universe, even as we know it is incredibly vast. If the Creator created it, then the Creator must be far beyond what our imagination can devise.) People use pronouns and terminology such as a man or woman in order to conceptualize something so vast. I use the pronoun "He" because it shows more respect than "it", and in English, gender-neutral is "he" as well as male.
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God is a joke... jokes don't have genders
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I don't think worshiping a male god without the female aspect makes your IQ lower.  But these folks can be off-balance, and they're usually not in tune with the things going on around them.
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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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The truth is no one really knows if God is a woman or a man. In the bible it does refer to God as He. However, one must realize that the bible was written by men. They brought their patriarchal views to the table and put them in the book. Men are fragile creatures who are afraid of what they don't understand. There was no way a that those men who wrote the bible would have actually admitted that God was a woman even if they knew different because they would loose that power over their wives and slaves.
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In heaven, there will be male or female.  We will be spiritual beings.  Quite different and better than we are now.  Adam and Eve were made to work together to glorify God.  They each had a very special purpose to God.
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god and goddess. blessed be. muahaha
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I believe that the source of all creation is a pantheon of gods of male, female, androgyny and sexless genders. The first creation story in the Bible (Genesis 1-2:4) calls this "Elohim" (in original Hebrew), a plural noun referring to both the male and female gender.\n\nI don't live by the Bible, as I am by no means Jewish or Christian, but I do like that it backs up my theory.\n\nI believe They all created the universe as well as the first forms of life by means of physics, evolution, and other scientific methodologies. This is my own personalized theory of theistic evolution, and you can learn more about the most common forms of it here: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_world2.htm
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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!
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If there is a God I would hope it would have the characteristics of neither male nor female.  Human characteristics at all might flaw the Deity.  We humans are a sad state, I would want a God that was perfect.
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I think there is only one God.  Men have called Him many things; God, Jehovah, Great Spirit, Allah... the list is quite lengthy.  I doubt that He really cares what you call Him, as long as you do call.