RE: Why God is not a girl...
August 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2012 at 3:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 24, 2012 at 5:09 am)Rayaan Wrote: If YHWH has pagan roots, then perhaps He was not the original god of the Jews, at least.
LOL, why? I'm honestly amused here, why would a god having pagan roots preclude him from being anyone's "original god"...lol?
Quote:As for Allah being a male, again, my point was that the word "He" is used only in a figurative sense, just like when sometimes people talk about nature or the earth with a "she." Also, the verses that I quoted on the first page in this thread negates the idea that Allah has a gender or that He is a male, specifically. In fact, it shows that we cannot understand His nature at all.People actually call the earth a "she" (when they do) because of a long-stanging cultural narrative of femininity regarding the earth. Yes, it's figurative...and yes, it arises from a "literal" understanding of the "spirit of the earth" being female. Such is also the case with your god. No one has seen your gods dick, granted, but it;s assumed he has a pretty big one. The Koran is an awfully long list of thigs to do with this gods nature for a book that "cannot understand His nature"....don't you think?
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of that. Nothing follows from "we cannot understand". No proclamations, no nothing...because -we cannot understand-. I wish everyone would run with it....
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