Do you believe that God has a feminine side?
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Yes; the name "El Shaddai" refers to the feminine aspect of G-d. It translates into the many breasted G-d; implying the nurturing, comforting, life-giving qualities. It means more than this, but I'm focusing on the feminine elements.
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hell yeah god must be a woman..only a woman would put the most sensitive part of a mans body on the outside!
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No.  God is One in three distinct.personalities.  I know this is hard to wrap your brain around, but it is.\n\nTry the study titled "Is God one or three?" link below.
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Nope.  But if we could fully understand/explain God He wouldn't be much of a God.\n\nIsaiah 55:8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. \n\nIsaiah 55:9  For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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If there was a God, and there isn't. But if there was for the sake of your question. He would be a she and she would be a lesbian.\n\nMore:Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.\nIs he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.\nIs he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?\nIs he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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No.  My Goddess and God aren't human - they don't have human emotions.  They don't do things out of spite or love or anything other than because they're trying to restore balance.  Sometimes it's difficult to accept that the "bad" things that happen to me are just a burning away of the old, a necessary cleansing that needs to happen so there can be new growth, especially if I wasn't ready to let go of what has passed.  But the Goddess/God don't do things maliciously.\n\nBright blessings!\n)O(
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Besides the ovbious male-female definition, goddesses and gods are separated philosophically in the terms of patriarchal religions (such as the abrahamic jewdaism, christianism and islam, that are cousins) and matriarchal religions, such as the old european religions of druidry, asatru and traditional witchcraft (not wicca because it is modern).\n\nIn patriarcal religions, that started with the polytheistic olympics in ancient greeks, male figures rule the world... and if there are goddesses there they ahave a male like personality (like athenea).\n\nIn matriarchal religions the male-female polarities tend to be more balanced, attributing aspects of ruling to each gender. I.E. fertility and creativity to female, and strength and endurance to male.
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Definately.  God is a very personal thing, different for everyone.
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God appears to be quite a sexist bit of work. Could be jealousy.... as a 'masculine' deity, he can't give birth.Maybe he could do with a bit of balance. (shrugs)
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Of course, God is cool and he understand your situations, if this wasn't true he wouldn't be God.\nHe is the one who has given the sexual desire so don't worry.
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the creator of all life is a goddess.\nsince when men are creative?....or intelligent, hehe?
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If a man thinks the way you described, he isn't worth the effort to turn your head to look at him.\n\nWomen need to feel free to accept their bodies without shame or being put into catagories.\n\nThrough out history, the female frame has been venerated in all its forms, from rounded hips and belly to boyish sticks. In my opinion, if man was created in the image of God then by golly, WOMAN was created in the image of Goddess. You are a perfect female, no matter what you look like.
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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 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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Amen.\nGod is neither a he or a she. God is God and God has no gender because God is not a human. I think God is indeed portrayed as a male (or a female to all you feminists out there) because humanizing God makes God's doctrines seem more familiar.\n\nNow read that paragraph. Doesn't it sound weird? Instead of saying him I simply replaced all pronouns with God. For writing to sound the least bit intellegent, pronouns are necessary. But your right, why he(/she). We need a pronoun for God that doesn't humanize him.
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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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No, you're correct. Many believers can't seem to grasp this simple concept.\n\nIn the following argument (which is the same as yours, just more in depth) the author does not assign god a gender, therefor god is referred to as "it", instead of "he" or "she".\n\n"The problem here is that God knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. Its knowledge cannot be wrong. There is not a single event that it has not foresaw. Given that it created the Universe the way it did, do we have free will? Consider that when God made the Universe it could see every possible result of what it was doing. Which means: it could not create something without knowing what the results would be, and without knowing how it would be affected (and effect) the things around it.\n\nLet's say that Fred has a choice that will save his life, to accept God or not to accept God and the final choice is to be made tomorrow. God knows already what choice he will make - God cannot be wrong therefore Fred cannot choose otherwise to what God has predicted. When God created the chain of events that made Fred it also knew that it was making Fred's choice for him, and knew how the various circumstances and character would make him choose either right or wrong. Fred would go forth and make that very decision that God knew he would make, and by virtue that God knowingly set up all the factors that affected his decision, it was not up to Fred but to God to decide how Fred would fare.\n\nThis argument does not imply that God does not exist. It leaves us with three results, two of which have to be wrong.\n\n   1. God created everything with full knowledge and we have no free will to change it\n   2. God does not have full knowledge\n   3. God did not make the Universe or there is no God"\n\n - Written by Vexen Crabtree