[__ Science __ ] Is God Male or Female?

[humble soul]

So you just assume that it is? Not a very good plan. As you know, gender is a biological property and you are wrong to attribute the characteristics of a creature to God.

Accept what scripture says, instead of inventing new ideas to put in it. I don't think you intend to misrepresent God, but you're trying to make him a biological entity. And that's not right.

Wow
You sound pretty sharp to me. Would be good to see you post more often.

 

[Barbarian]

Wow
You sound pretty sharp to me. Would be good to see you post more often.

I'm a Roman Catholic, but I recognize that there are all sorts of Christians with all sorts of other views, who are no less Christian than Catholics are. Much of what we argue about, really has little or nothing to do with salvation.

Theology won't save anyone. An open heart, given to God, will.

 

[humble soul]

I'm a Roman Catholic, but I recognize that there are all sorts of Christians with all sorts of other views, who are no less Christian than Catholics are. Much of what we argue about, really has little or nothing to do with salvation.

Theology won't save anyone. An open heart, given to God, will.

Praise the Lord. What a post.

 

[humble soul]

A scripture literate Catholic. A force to reckoned with!

 

[Quantrill]

So you just assume that it is? Not a very good plan. As you know, gender is a biological property and you are wrong to attribute the characteristics of a creature to God.

Accept what scripture says, instead of inventing new ideas to put in it. I don't think you intend to misrepresent God, but you're trying to make him a biological entity. And that's not right.

I do accept what Scripture says. You don't.

Scripture says God is a He. Scripture says God is Spirit. Scripture says Jesus Christ is the very express image of God. And Jesus Christ is a He.

You just don't believe the Scripture. Might as well admit it. It is plain to see.

Quantrill

 

[Barbarian]

Now you're recycling arguments that already failed. I think we're done here.

 

[Quantrill]

Now you're recycling arguments that already failed. I think we're done here.

Of course I am recycling arguments. They stand in contradiction to your unbelief. And that is all you can recycle.

Quantrill

 

[kiwimacahau]

God is Male. He. Masculine. It is why Adam was created male. It is why Jesus Christ Who is the very image of God, (Heb. 1:3), is male.

Quantrill

No, God is not male. In point of fact God encompasses both male and female.

26 Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

 

[Quantrill]

No, God is not male. In point of fact God encompasses both male and female.

Just because you rewrite the verses doesn't make it so. Just makes it your bible. Not God's.

Quantrill

 

[kiwimacahau]

Just because you rewrite the verses doesn't make it so. Just makes it your bible. Not God's.

Quantrill

1: No one rewrote anything. The Hebrew of the Genesis passage makes it inclusive of both females and males.
2: The KJV is NOT the standard by which we judge other English Translations.
3: The Bible refers to 'God's Wings'; it does not mean God is a bird.

 

[Quantrill]

1: No one rewrote anything. The Hebrew of the Genesis passage makes it inclusive of both females and males.
2: The KJV is NOT the standard by which we judge other English Translations.
3: The Bible refers to 'God's Wings'; it does not mean God is a bird.

1.) Yes you did. You changed the pronouns. The pronouns are masculine. He. him.

2.) The KJV is not the only one that gets it right.

3.) We are not discussing a 'metaphor'. We are discussing pronouns which are masculine identifying God as masculine. We are discussing Adam created in the image of God. Male. (Gen. 1:26) We are discussing Jesus Christ the express image of God. Male. (Heb. 1:3) Unless you think Jesus was a metaphor. Or Adam was a metaphor. Do you?

Quantrill

 

[kiwimacahau]

1.) Yes you did. You changed the pronouns. The pronouns are masculine. He. him.

2.) The KJV is not the only one that gets it right.

3.) We are not discussing a 'metaphor'. We are discussing pronouns which are masculine identifying God as masculine. We are discussing Adam created in the image of God. Male. (Gen. 1:26) We are discussing Jesus Christ the express image of God. Male. (Heb. 1:3) Unless you think Jesus was a metaphor. Or Adam was a metaphor. Do you?

Quantrill

Given I think that Genesis 1 and 2 are stories about WHY God created rather than history you will then be aware that I do not see the Adam and Eve story as historical. As for God, you are attempting to ascribe to a being the Bible describes as a "Spirit" notions of gender. It simply will not fly no matter how passionately you feel about it. Spirits do not have gender at all.

 

[Barbarian]

I've been informed that Mormons believe God is male, because they think He was once a man like us, and only later was promoted to God.

I think they are wrong about that.

 

[Quantrill]

Given I think that Genesis 1 and 2 are stories about WHY God created rather than history you will then be aware that I do not see the Adam and Eve story as historical. As for God, you are attempting to ascribe to a being the Bible describes as a "Spirit" notions of gender. It simply will not fly no matter how passionately you feel about it. Spirits do not have gender at all.

Which means you have much more serious problems than to wonder whether or not God is masculine. But, you do reveal the real problem. Unbelief.

I am believing what the Bible says. That will fly.

And what do you base your statement on that spirit's don't have gender? Which 'story' of the Bible do you find that in?

Quantrill