Why do many Christians have a problem with God being referred to as She?
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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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he is only called he because of the male dominated society in which the Bible was written.\n\nWhy worry about a book of fiction anyway?
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Eve, Deborah, Rebecca, Sarah, Ruth, Bathsheba, Abagail, Zipora, Jezebell, Mary, Mary magdalene, The woman who was the head of the church of Ephesus. \nThese are all key people in the Bible and in Christianity.\n\nGod often uses male figures to characterize certain aspects of Christianity because for example his relationship Jesus most closely resembles a father/son relationship.  \nHis relationship to us is charactaristic to a Father/Child relationship etc.\nLucifer before he was satan was the equivilant of one of God's generals.  No way could the reader relate to a female general, Especially in ancient times.  \nSatan is a spirit, and is therefore not truly male of female anatomically, but in character is male.\n\nHope that helps.
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It's easy to ignore.  Cause today God is different.  If they say otherwise, then they are the one's who are dishonest.  Why would selling your daughter as a sex slave be alright in one book, then suddenly bad the next?  Obviously something has changed here.  And I am sure that many will justify it by calling you Ignorant and say you don't know what the Bible really says (even though you just quoted it).  No matter how they turn, though, there is no rationalizing the Old Testament God with the New Testament God.\nGood to see you, btw.  ^_^
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Cause everyone has the right to believe whatever they want to believe and call themselves whatever they want to call themselves.\n\nBesides, Christians, that is just a name given to those who believe Jesus is the Christ, and follow his teaching.  I don't think anyone could actually call themselves a Christian seriously if they do not believe, they are just kidding themselves.
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There will always be people who claim they are doing something in the name of God.  They are not thinking whether or not this is something Jesus would do.  I am sure this is something Jesus would not do.  These people are turning people away from Christ and are giving Christians a bad name.  It angers me to see something like that.  They will have their day when they have to give God an explanation for their actions.
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I don't believe that God has a gender. In animals that reproduce sexually, the purpose of gender is procreation. If  you're Christian, you believe that God has a son, Jesus Christ. However, Jesus was supposed to have been the result of an immaculate conception.God didn't have sexual intercourse with Mary.God isn't human and He/She/It is beyond all human understanding.
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When he/she/G gives praise, e.g. to Abraham, Job, etc. s/he/G is often acting as a mother figure.\n\nI think to solve the he/she problem, God should have his/her own pronoun in English, call it:\n\n"G" and the possessive could be G's. \n\n(it could be considered a phonetic fusion of he and she together)\n\n\n\nyay/nay?
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Well unfortunately we are bashed by so many christians that we just assume all are the same. I know many christians who have had sex with the same sex. I went onto your section here on yahoo and wow, I thought we were hated. There is so much hate and anger there that it makes it hard for some to even want to be in a religion.
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I would not call it blasphemous but it sure shows a Jezebel spirit.  Radical feminist would love to make GOD female...but they sure do not mind keeping satan male.  \n\nPlease remember that by GOD being referred to as male nor Jesus as the SON of GOD, that does not devalue women or make them second class as they too are children of GOD and HE loves each of us equally.  GOD is not a respecter of persons and that includes gender.  He created men and women to compliment each other...not to have a battle of the sexes and when we work together, we can do far more then either of us can alone.
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I believe there is a Goddess and a God. Everything in nature requires balance, so why would the same not be true of God?\n\nPlus, in the OT, when God talks about himself, the original Hebrew text actually in the female form, not male.
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The God of the Old Testament appears to have more than one personality. The identity of God seems to vary with the author. I see religion as an evolutionary process.
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"God" is a title.  Most christians unknowingly follow an old jewish custom of not saying God's name, which in english is Jehovah.\n\nMost modern day translations of the Bible have taken the name out and replaced it with GOD, LORD, or other such titles.  Most bibles even explain their reasonings in the forward.\n\nYou can actually find the name used in the King James Version at Psalm 83:18, Exodus 6:3, Isaiah 12:2, and Isaiah 26:4
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Yes, God has many names. I choose to call him by the one name that sets Him apart from all others...Jesus!
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God is commonly referred to in the masculine sense because of the relationship that primarily judaism based religions wished to portray between god and mankind. God the Father, because at the time all the ancient religious texts for these religions were written a family was dominated by the father and rather than using the metaphor of the mother, which would imply at the time that there was some other superior to the God figure, they used a masculine term. This term has persisted due to a continuation of male dominance in society and through the institution of tradition which is now so ancient that many believe it would be heresy to alter it today. It is true that the relationship that many today share with god is much better described as female, but this too stems from the feminization of 'soft' concepts such as love and procreation. Consequently calling God male or female is 100% related to culture and I would like to answer your question with a question. Why try to personify god as male or female? If you follow western society's modern beleif that male and female are equal, or the more radical belief that there is no definite male or female but shades of gender (see transgender), and if gender serves the sole function of procreation through sexual intercourse why attempt to place the all powerful being that is God within the restraints of a single gender. God does not need to procreate through sexuality as God is capable of creation without thought or effort. So, why call God she? Why not just understand that God is God regardless of name or gender.
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You are NOT being overly feminist. That is really odd, I never noticed that before. I guess I never listened to the words closely enough. \n\nWhy do we need men to be our God?
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Once again Christians display a woeful ignorance of the history of their own faith.\n\n"X" has been an acceptable and legitimate abbreviation for "Christ" for as long as Christianity has existed.  It is the Greek symbol for the first letter of Christ's name.  Yes SOME people use it as a sign of disrespect, but most use it as short hand, and there is nothing insulting, disrepectful, or impious about doing so.\n\nAs far as G-d, there are those who believe it is sacriligeous to write God's name, and that is their solution.\n\nIt's not too "hard" to write God or Christ, but it is some people's CHOICE to, and they are entitled to that choice without being constantly criticized and slandered by people too ignorant to understand why.