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God's gender

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nator
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Message 22 of 29 (176017)
01-11-2005 9:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by Nighttrain
01-10-2005 3:09 AM

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Of course God is a 'He'. You ever hear of a female mass killer?Of course God is a 'He'. You ever hear of a female mass killer? Might have something to do with that 'Nature versus nurture' thingy.
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Yep.
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"Mother Nature".
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Might have something to do with that 'Nature versus nurture' thingy.
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Oh, that is so true!
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nator
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Message 29 of 29 (181181)
01-27-2005 6:50 PM 		Reply to: Message 28 by Swift
01-16-2005 1:41 AM

Re: "He" is symbolic
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He, when refering to God is symbolic to show God as mascaline or powerful. What would you think if God was called she or in symbolic terms feminine.
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That God has the power to give life, or take it away, like nature.
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What is more powerful than the power to create life?
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The feminine is considered "weak" in patriarchal cultures, but not in matriarchal or egalitarian cultures.
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He, does not rely mean an actual gender.
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Uh, yeah it does.
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Like "father" means a male parent.
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If the Bible meant a non-gendered parental figure, it would have used the word for parent, not father.
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And when he talks about mother and father that is also symbolic. Mothers and Fathers take care of there children and so does God.
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But the word for Father is used to refer to God throughout most of the Bible, not parent.
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