RE: Why God is not a girl...
August 24, 2012 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm by ThomM.)
(August 23, 2012 at 10:43 pm)jonb Wrote:-----------------------(August 23, 2012 at 8:59 pm)Shell B Wrote: Yes, I'm very young, a virgin and I don't watch television. I also didn't realize that people with gender were all sexual. Kind of weird thing to learn about your perspective. Maybe you should be Catholic.
I think you may like to know, I think I may have found a non sexual catholic for you,
HAHAHA
WHY a catholic - I don't believe in the fairy tales of your religion
EVENTUALLy you will learn that santa claus is a fake too - oops - maybe I said something you did not know yet
AND sorry - but your statement about a non-sexual catholic again shows how little you understand the subject of gender.
WHEN you grow up more - ask your parents to explain why your statement cannot be true.
(August 24, 2012 at 12:03 am)Rayaan Wrote: To re-iterate my first post in this thread, I think that the "He" is only a type of figurative language. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that God/Allah/YHWH is a male.
Why is mother nature a "she"? <- Same answer as above.
Sorry - but the subject is "why god is not a girl"
THe "he" is clearly being used to dispute that.
IF the "he" is only figurative -= then it cannot be used to dispute that subject
In reality -
All gods are fictional characters in fairy tales - making then non-existent - so they have NO gender - at all. THE are neuter - ie - "IT"
In the fairy tales of the bible and the koran - the god is singular - and has no female counterpart from which to determine that gender exists - so they too are neuter - ie "IT"
While we do call ships "she" or "her" of the female gender - educated persons understand that ships do not have a gender - and are neuter as well.
(August 24, 2012 at 8:30 am)pocaracas Wrote: Guys, it's a language thing.
In most (or all) latin languages (and most likely others, but not english), all nouns have a gender associated.
For example, in Portuguese, the noun for "chair", cadeira, is female; the noun for "pencil", lápis, is male (makes sense!); the noun for "computer", computador, is male; the noun for "god", deus, is also male.
The female version is "goddess", deusa.
As for the god of the bible, it (see what I did there?) is always referred to using the male noun, capitalized. Nonetheless, it is defined/presented as an asexual being.
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GO back to the title of the thread
"Why god is NOT a girl"
IF the word "he" is being used as a matter of speech or figuratively - it is meaningless in the discussion. It is NOT the word "he" that is the subject of the thread - the subject of the thread is whether the god is "MALE"
In that context - there is NO place in either book that shows the need for "god" to have male or female characteristics. There is only one god in both books as claimed (THE trinity being nonsense and is not claimed in either of the books). THere are no "female" gods for a male god to be counterpoint to.
If you believe the nonsense that there is a son of god that is the same god as the father - then there still remains no basis for conception via a female god.
THe god of the bible and the god of the koran are both NEUTER - and using "it" to describe them is appropriate
