Why do some ppl think/refer to  god as a woman, and others think it's a man?
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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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Men and women are equal in God's sight in respect to his love for them and in respect to their salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.\n\nBut God created men and women with different roles. Just because a woman becomes a Christian doesn't mean that she isn't called to bear children for example. In the context of marriage the divine order is Jesus is in charge, the man is supposed to follow Him and the woman is supposed to follow her husband as he follows Christ.\n\nThat doesn't make men better than women. It just means that God has ordained different roles for each gender. That's why back in Genesis 2 God said he would make a suitable helper for the man when He created Eve.\n\nIf He had done it the other way around then He would still have had to have an order because God is not the author of confusion.
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Because, while Judaism first claimed that their God was genderless, the original religion was influenced by hundreds of years of patriarchal societies that saw men as being the most important members of a civilization.  By the time Christianity and Islam came along as little branches off to the sides, the "he" was firmly in place, despite the supposed-"genderless" nature of the deity.  Unfortunately, now there are those who refuse to see it any other way.  I prefer my Wiccan Goddess and God that acknowledges the balance between female and male, the need of each for the other.
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I don't think we can really truly know the answer to this in full.  God seems to make Him/Herself known to various people in various ways, perhaps based on those peoples' abilities to understand.  He has many attributes of a Father, and perhaps that is why he is often depicted as an older man in peoples' minds.  In a song I recently heard, based on St. Augustine's writings, God is described as "Beauty Ever Ancient, Beauty Ever New."  I think that is an interesting description.  Because God is ancient (perhaps why many think of him as an old grey-haired man), and yet he is always ever-new (perhaps why many think of God as a newborn baby, such as baby Jesus, and baby Krishna).  \n\nI think it is not wrong to describe God as a Consciousness, that is at least in some ways related to our own consciousnesses.  I think to describe Him as Love is also good.  \n\nI don't think any of these ways are wrong necessarily, but also, none of them are complete in themselves.
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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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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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What the question should be is why is it some people who believe in GOD are so judgemental over others beliefs? Some folks are simply trying to find thier own path, and may be eclectic. He may be real to you, he is not real to every one. Nothing wrong with either ideology, just wish there was a way for every one to understand that.
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god is neither a man or a woman but an entity many ppl get this confused by a bible passage that says god made man in his image but that by no means translates to god has a penis or a vagina
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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 is both male and female and IS the source.
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Yes, although some people worship Him differently and believe there is different ones... bs God is God...theres one.
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Because God is a man-made creation and man lives on earth. In those days people had no idea about the rest of the universe. Gods were created out of ignorance.\n\nSome gullible, insecure people still believe in one.
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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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God is a figment of mans imagination, therefore he is whatever you think he is. Imagine he changes and he changes.
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Only some men and some women do that. If you don't believe in God, I don't have a problem with that and would never offend your beliefs so please don't offend mines.
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God is not a man or woman. We only have 6 senses, and visually we need to give god a picture.
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I think it is an excellent theory.  While many different religions may call their god (and goddess) by different names, I think in the end we are all worshipping the same god.  We all just have different ways of worship.  God/dess is not confused - the Divine knows we are speaking to it and loves us all the same.