Gender of Holy Spirit

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I believe they did share their thoughts. Allow me to summarize "Atheists don't believe in God or Gods, this usually includes any part of the Hebrew trinity".

If you'd like to have a sematic discussion on ancient languages and the importance of gender in language and it's relevance to a belief in a Hebrew God I can comment. I don't care whether "it" mean male, female or non-binary in differing languages. I do like your correlation to the experience of Father, Mother and son. I believe it's more experiential and less gender role specific though.

Hi Dave, 

When I was reading the Peshitta, which is the Syriac version of the Bible and in there, in Genesis 1:2 the verb for hovered takes on the feminine noun, so it translates "the Spirit of God, she was hovering over the face of waters " 

So would it not make more sense to refer to the Holy Spirit as 'she'? instead of 'it'

I try to use as few pronouns as possible in my daily life. It's very disconcerting to some people. I'd like to call John as John, Lauren as Lauren. If I have to use a personal pronoun then I'm usually talking about someone when they're not around and that takes me both out of the moment and is usually rude.

I would say The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters or the Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters.

I would also like to add that a pedantic review of language is not what I wanted to participate in, but I'm glad to discuss the symbology of family and trinity.