Is there anyone out there that believes in the Female aspect of God, Azna?
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I am unfamiliar with 'Azna', but I believe that masculinity and femininity are included in the character of God. In my latest sermon (a mother's day sermon) I mentioned that we would not really understand the love of God if we didn't have loving mothers. The love that our mothers give us is essential in having a clearer view of the kind of God that exists.\nIf God created humanity in God's image, then it should be clear that at least half of that image is not male, but female.
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I read half of it (should probably have finished it, which I might do in the future.)  She had some good point, mainly highlighting the institution of 'Ishdihad' where Muslims themselves can keep an eye on whats going on with their religion; free thought.  This is applicable to todays world where some people are wildly misinterpreting the religion, hence the result being nasty attacks on INNOCENT civilians, which it totally condemned in Islam.  \n\nOne thing I will hold against her, she goes to say that she is openly a lesbian with a girlfriend.  My understanding of Homosexuality in Islam is this:  The religion takes sexuality and sex as two different and independent things.  So, If your straight, this doesn't give you the right to have sex with many women before marriage, you can only have sex within the marriage.  The Quran acknowledges that people can have homosexual thoughts and tendencies but these should not be acted upon sexually.  Now, if she researched the religion to the extent of being able to write a book about it she should have known this, which she either does know and disregards or doesn't know.  This is quite hypocritical in my opinion.
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YES BUT WHAT MAN WOULD NOT WANT TO BE WITH OUT GOD HE IS THE ANSWER NO MAN CAN TELL ME DIFFERENT AM A BLACK WOMAN AND I HAVE STRONG BELIEFS IN GOD I WILL TELL EVERYONE WHO WILL LISTEN THAT GOD IS REAL
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Yep, intimately, she is my wife.  Been married for 6 heavenly years.  Her family excepts me and excepts that i will never convert, i accept the same that she will always be a Muslim and will never convert.  Everybody is happy, and life is good.
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One of the answers above went as follows: "A woman is closest to god's face if she is at the core of her house"\n\n?????\n\nYou really need to stop believing in the ravings of an ancient mystic. Whoever wrote the Koran, as with parts of the Old Testament,  probably had a vitamin deficiency, and it affected his thinking. Please grow up. Read literature, not ravings.
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All women all God's gift to men! Don't get it twisted, son. ;-)\n\nBe blessed in knowing.
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yes of course i believe in God... he is the almighty creator...\npeace out:)
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I've mixed and matched. The Greek pantheon, the Celts and a few here and there that I've learned about. I think it's a matter of the subject - a God/Goddess will speak/reach out to you depending on what you are going through.\n\nOr you can be reading about many different Gods/Godesses and suddenly you are drawn to one even though it may be different from the pantheons you usually work with.\n\nI don't think it's a matter of who believe in as much as it matters that you believe.
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There is no strong proof that woman was sent as a prophet. But some women in religion's history have been considered highly respectible, such as Asia (Pharoah’s wife), Hawaa (Eve, Prophet Adam’s wife), Sarah (Prophet Ibrahim’s wife),Yuhanz (Prophet Moses’ mother), Maryam (Mary, Jesus's mother), Khadija (Muhammad's first wife).
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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 you find any let me know. I am going through the same situation. InshAllah, both of our relationships will be fine. \nMa salaam,\nIsra.
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Yes in the Goddesses and Gods I believe in.
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I don't agree, because I have not seen a temple built on a sewer, so I do not have anything to compare a woman to...but here is the full quote:\n\nTertullian (160?-220?): "Woman is a temple built over a sewer, the gateway to the devil. Woman, you are the devil's doorway. You led astray one whom the devil would not dare attack directly. It was your fault that the Son of God had to die; you should always go in mourning and rags."
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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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Yes .. sure i belive in one god allah\nhttp://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch3-2-1.htm
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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 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)