Who decided that God is male ?
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Yesterday, in my dream, saw God, and SHE was BLACK.\n\nGod is beyond of any discrimination,sex,caste,creed. God is one in all, no limits, no boundries, jusrt endless stream of bliss, peace and joy....\n\nThe dream of God, is reflected in men and women all around the world.\n\nWe are all a part of God, who in his/her limitless grace and kindness, showers blesings upon us, in every possible form.\nLike rain, dewdrops, water, the limitless clear, blue sky, the freedom and joy to be free.\n\nGod is beyond.\nLike uncountable daffodils on background of shining sun.\nOr like lotuses in a lake with blossomed moon....\n\nNo one decided God is male. Its just way of expressing our gratitude to God. \n\nYou can call God her.After all, God is God. We are mortal humans.\n\nGood Luck, and keep faith in God.
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Because for the last 7-10,000 years we have lived in a society dominated by the Culture Hero stereotype.  Prior to that, God was tho't of as female, as the dominant stereotype was the Mother Goddess.  This is compounded in English by the fact that the indeterminate pronoun for living things is the same as the male pronoun.  "It" is used only for inanimate objects.\n\nWe are now reaching a level of maturity where the generality of mankind can begin to really think of God as having no attributes of any kind, let alone sex linked ones.
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To start with, "all" means human beings -- not animals.  Secondly, in context with the theory of evolution, I don't believe it was a physical image in which He created us, but perhaps our souls that resemble Him.  As far as gender goes, God is neither man nor woman.  The male figure in early literature was always considered the dominant gender, so to represent God's dominion over the world, He has always naturally been assimilated to masculine terms.
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the creator of all life is a goddess.\nsince when men are creative?....or intelligent, hehe?
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Yes there is evidence as others have pointed out.It's evidence if one is really trying to understand.\nI believe God's image is that of a man because in most societies man represents strength,protection,wisdom and leadership.(Note:I said"represent".I realize there is a whole other discussion in that statement but we will just stick with the God question!)\nHowever,there are passage in the Bible that describe God's love for us with such tender and compassion,I actually thought God was a woman!I can not express the torture I put myself through trying to grapple with that concept.I wanted help but the religious leaders I knew would not tolerate such a blasphemous statement as"you know what? I believe God is actually a woman!(I grappled with this because it was such a revelation I believed I would have to be the one to bring the church kicking and screaming into my new understanding of God.Thereby having to shed light on centuries of darkness.And if you have ever tried to shed light on centuries of darkness you know what a daunting and thankless task it can be.You heard what they did to Jesus,right?)"It was a woman pastor in a Presbyterian church,Ms Carolyn Fairless<who helped me resolve my struggle.She mentioned God has no genitalia.As a complete being God created two wholes,Adam and Eve,to make a whole.In a perfect world Adam would be the perfect compliment to Eve.And vise verse that relationship between the two produces love and as was mentioned God is love.Ithank we use gender to get a handle on God because God is more than we can really understand with our imperfect minds.We have an idea of who God is and what he does but it's nothing as compared to the reality.(I think!)
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God is a spirit and has no gender
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Adam;s father was God. God created him.
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God is a spirit, no physical body, hence, no actual colour.\nSo man when he was created was to have godlike qualities. Man doesn't live on instinct, as the animals do, but on reason logic and the most prominent feature of God that is love.
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Are you saying God is a girl?  I don't know if God has a gender.... but you see God is something we believe even if we don't see him is called FAITH... if you really want to feel God you have to meditate and pray and you will feel his or her presence....
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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 has no gender. That is a human condition.
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"God" doesn't get angry. Men assigned human traits to "God" because they created their god in their own image.
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Probably the "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" one.  This argument totally overlooks the fact that God created hermaphrodites.  And anyone who believes that God creates humans, will have to agree that God created hermaphrodites, because they were born that way.  So obviously the Adam and Eve story does not cover all the people that God created.
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The only thing I have to argue with Christians and their male Creator stance is that there must have been a female co-creator in there, as well.  If we are created in God's image, and all of nature requires a male/female co-creating team, then it would only seem natural to have a female aspect in the Divinity, wouldn't it?\n\nIn many of the New Age belief systems, there is a female aspect to the creation, and, while there is a great similarity to the rest of the fundamental laws (do no harm, treat others as you would yourself, etc.), the female aspect is the one thing that causes folks a great deal of stress.
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first of all, the answer that conundrun  dr gave doesn't relly make sense acc. to the question. the question is why the ANIMAL had to be a male, not the one that brought it.\nnow to answer the question, the burnt offering was brought to attone for thinking not good thought's, as we see in job. 1. 5., therefore if someone thought to do a sin and they held thenselves back it means that that person had a very strong control on themselves, and being that men tend to be physically more strong, the offering that was brought was a male to represent that control that the person had.
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Remember, men wrote the bible...regardless of the fact that it may have been "influenced" by God...it was still men.\n\nHad God decided to influence a group of women to write the bible (or if a group of women just did it...whatever) it would have been Adam who ate the fruit, men who serve women, etc etc.
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God created man in his own image.