God was a hermaphrodite.

That's the conclusion I came to after reading this discussion.

The only way to answer your question is: How could he have a gender?

Where do you get this info about God from? God created the Earth so...I don't get it.

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Originally posted by WorthWaitingFor:

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Originally posted by hubbabaloo:
But the reason that to me He cannot be a force and a-sexual is that God has a form. He is a resurrected being. God is a perfected human. No more, no less.

If we are righteous enough, we can become perfected humans as well, and rule kingdoms just as Our Heavenly Father, and His wife, do.

God is not a resurrected being or a perfected human. Jesus is. Totally different people---God is the deity. Jesus is the Messiah.

No, I did not mistype, and it wasn't a factual error.

Jesus is the Messiah, yes. God is the deity, yes.

However, God was once a person like us, but in a different world, under His god. I didn't mess up, and I don't believe in the trinity.

Just a question, for those that believe in the trinity, how could he not be male?

Alright, the higher power is just there. Like Celtic said, the higher power just is. We have no right as humans to label the higher power as male or female. It has no name and needs no name. It has no gender and needs no gender. It just has these things so we can humanize it.

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Originally posted by hubbabaloo:
But the reason that to me He cannot be a force and a-sexual is that God has a form. He is a resurrected being. God is a perfected human. No more, no less.

If we are righteous enough, we can become perfected humans as well, and rule kingdoms just as Our Heavenly Father, and His wife, do.

God is not a resurrected being or a perfected human. Jesus is. Totally different people---God is the deity. Jesus is the Messiah.

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Originally posted by depressedwavemaster:
****. Or something entirely else? Why must something be one or the other? Why can't there be a whole rainbow of possibilities? Why must a tree be either oak or willow? Why can we not have ash or aspen or cedar or maple or pine?

Okay, there is something called a black and white fallacy, wavemaster, but this isn't it.

You are either male or you're female. Since this is a divine being we're talking about here, you could plausibly believe that God is neither. But other than that, those are the choices.

But the reason that to me He cannot be a force and a-sexual is that God has a form. He is a resurrected being. God is a perfected human. No more, no less.

If we are righteous enough, we can become perfected humans as well, and rule kingdoms just as Our Heavenly Father, and His wife, do.

God just is.

Ya worth, you are totally a very cool Christian! I'll try my hardest not to generalize Christians anymore for your sake... it'll be hard, but just for you, i'll try my hardest...

Awww....thanks guys. I like being a cool Christian.

And I realize that most Christians are like that but I try to mention every time someone generalizes Christians that we're not all like that!

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But, worth, you are what I like to call a good Christian, because you are open-minded and not so constricted to one opinion...

Worth is a very cool Christian, we like her.

Ouch depressedwavemaster, lighten up a bit...you can expect everyone to read your mind.

Anyway, since I'm not religious I don't suppose I really have a place in here but I just wanted to add that I always thought the Christian god was male, he's always refered to as male. But I would think that in "reality" there would be no gender, like clpo said...

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The Creator is neither. Male and female are human attributes. Besides, what use does a being of energy have for gender?

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Since you seem to not know that I am Christian I will post this again:

I was saying that most Christians I know (as in outside of YN) obsess about how God has to be a male... But, worth, you are what I like to call a good Christian, because you are open-minded and not so constricted to one opinion...

Since you seem to not know that I am Christian I will post this again:

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Neither---God is everything. He is a heavenly deity. We call him "He" to add earthly constrictions so that our minds can comprehend. But he is neither male nor female.

I am almost postive that God is a man (Our FATHER, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name.....) He is alwyas referred to as a our father so, I do believe that he is a man. But I really don't think that it matter what gender he is. I think its just easier for people to comprehend God as someting remotely similar to a human. I know we were made in God's image, leading to the fact that God is like us or vise versa, but God is much greater than us and giving him gender makes him easier to believe in and to understand his existence.

Good question...I don't think it does at all, but whenever I talk about it, most of the "christians" i know always obsess about how god is male and things like that...I just wanted to see what others thoughts were...I don't think god has a gender... but if I did, I think it would be female...

One question....what does it matter whether God is male, female or any gender at all?

Indeed it is. I don't even want to respond to things when people get like that...

This is depressing. *Sighs*

Oh god. Why do newbies always take me seriously all the time? Oh yeah. Cause they don't know when I'm joking and when I'm serious. That could be it. Here, have my Orlando Bloom rope. I assume you know how to tie a noose?

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Just for clarification, I was making conversation, imputing my opinion and furthering this thread. So get over it.

There's nothing for me to get over. Since I started the topic, I was just clarifying that the discussion didn't need to be limited to male/female... I would suggest not getting so defensive when someone replies to your posts though...