RE: Why God is not a girl...
August 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2012 at 3:30 pm by pocaracas.)
(August 24, 2012 at 2:58 pm)ThomM Wrote:(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.
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
yes.... hence my last sentence: god is defined as an asexual being. And if it doesn't exist, then it is even more asexual.
However, according to myth, the guy did make Mary pregnant.... sooooo... if Mary was female, then god would be male.

(We all know that's just a copy/paste of the hercules myth which was copy/paste of some other myth before [help me out here guys], so yeah, neuter non-existing god)