Is God a male or a female?
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God is not physical, therefore sexless
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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.
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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 define by many people as something that have no shape,no gender,no desires.....it depend on u.SOme think GOD as a man and this can show the trait of Brave and strong while if GOD is a woman then it shows Motherly love and caring as well as sweet
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God is a joke... jokes don't have genders
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I'm not sure that god has a gender.  I think that is a human convention used to help us feable humans comprehend and relate to a god.  After all God is omnipotent and logically must be able to relate to both genders.  If God was a man or woman the God would run the risk of being biased.
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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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If there is a God I would hope it would have the characteristics of neither male nor female.  Human characteristics at all might flaw the Deity.  We humans are a sad state, I would want a God that was perfect.
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God is male and female, alpha and omega, beginning and end. \n\nThe reason He is refered to as He is that his just/righteous side is dominate over His mercy/love side.
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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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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 higher being that is both male and female, there has to be a balance in everything. As to why look in nature there are to many things that repeat throughout EVERYTHING to be an accident. It's not called the DIVINE PROPOTION for no resaon. :)
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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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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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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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I think that God is both. I think that he is a man and a woman. He made people in his image. If we are all made from his image  - though some may argue that Adam was made in his image and Eve from Adam ( Eve taken from Adam would also be in God's image...follow the thought process) - then he would have to be a higher being. One of both genders, separating them into two for the purpose of carrying on the human race. Now, as to why I referred to God as a He, it is simply proper grammar, and easier - and more correct - than he/she.
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masterba%ion is not a sin i personally believe, guys are guys, and believe me Jesus may be the son of god, but remember he's still a guy! Just remember lots of materials are still missing from the bible, that many find offensive and not right for the public to know!!! I apologize if any one finds my answer offensive, it's just my piece of thought!