Do you think God is a male or a female? (and what does he/she look like to you)?
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I think God is both male and female and appears in innumerable forms. God is everything.
738331
I do believe in God, but I don't believe that God is a male with a long beard that sits in judgement of humanity. I believe that god is the life force that makes the difference between us being a pile of chemicals, and us being living breathing sentient beings.\n\nNo, I don't believe in heaven or hell. I do believe that consciousness survives death though. I believe in reincarnation, either here or on other worlds or in other dimensions. \n\nBut I guess we won't really know for sure until we get there.
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What makes anything male of female? It is their physical characteristics. Since Gd is purely spiritual, Gd cannot be either male or female!\n\nNow, there are certainly characteristics that we stereotypically assign to being either male or female. For example, we call compassionate a feminine characteristic, while we call powerful a male characteristic. But there are powerful females, and compassionate males. Gd certainly has any and all of these characteristics that we normally stereotypically assign to being male or female, but Gd, being purely spiritual, is actually neither.
612126
Read Genesis AGAIN. It is written that he made THEM Male and Female in his image.Verse 27:God created human beings making them to be like himself. He created them male and female blessed them...."
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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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Well considering that Julie from Boise had a message from Him in which she was told that she would bear His son on Earth (to be called Macaroni) I'm thinking male.\n\nBut, He is a deity after all, so why need to bother with fiddly decisions like gender?\n\nAlthough, I suppose the debate over gender could lead to the first great schism in the church?\n\nMaybe there could be a Council of Pasta-Roni?
1077877
Yes, God is God no matter what you call him (or her) or how you choose to worship.\nI wish everyone understood this!
931925
christian... female version of christian...
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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.
330788
the creator of all life is a goddess.\nsince when men are creative?....or intelligent, hehe?
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Nope.  I was born female, raised as such and have tried to live my life according to God's laws.\n\nLook, I know God must have a sense of humor, but after three children I really don't think He's going to say "by the way, you're really a guy."
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Great Question!!  I bet you are really observant, great attention to detail.  I would have to say yes because all men are supposed to be created in gods image right? So we are created in the same image as Adam and Eve. So following that strain does god have a belly button? hmmmm I bet he is an inee. LOL Is that blasphemous?
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I used to belive in god at one point of my life and it was female, it just made sence to me, giver of life, gentle, nurturing, that kind of thing plus there is beauty in this world a man could never have concepted, no offence men, i am a man also
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Neither (yet, oddly, both).\n\nIn response to the argument that the Bible refers to God as "Him" and therefore God is Male -- In the French language, words describing objects are preceded by "le" or "la" which gives them value as being masculine or feminine terms -- that doesn't mean the objects are female or male.  In most languages, ships and nations (just two examples) are referred to as "She" and "her" -- that doesn't mean they are female.  In the past, in the US, to simplify statements, if the gender was not known or could be either, "he" was used.  (Example:  "To return an item, he must have his receipt.")  Our (US) Constitution uses the term "he", but in no way is meant to imply that it only refers to men.  And, man, as a species, includes women.\n\nGod (as great as He is) and the Lord (as great as He is) would not be so petty (I believe) as to bicker about the terms, He or She, to describe Them.  If the Lord was both male and female through the ages, the use of "He" to describe His position simplifies writing.  People (I believe) are equal in His eyes regardless of gender.  \n\nBesides, in Scriptures, in naming woman, we really don't know that "woman" doesn't mean "equal to the first one, but different-looking". \n\nPeace.
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God is a joke... jokes don't have genders
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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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Pick one..."god" is the "source", pick an image, any image, as long as you connect with god, that all that matters. God is male and female, it takes both to create life! God/dess is the life force of nature, way beyond our comprehention, so just find an image you can connect with, I like the Goddess, mother aspect. I'm a mamas boy. Hahahaha