is god a man or a woman?

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[SmileyBoy]

1. God is representative of both sexes.

Or so my religion teaches.

[Alleycat]

2. A Being

Being neither.

[Cerridwen]

3. Both and neither - n/t

[kiahzero]

4. Other: Both

The divine has both male and female aspects.

[Stew225]

5. God is. eom

[matcom]

6. there is no god

weakling

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10. i didn't say i believed in god. nt

[indigobusiness]

7. How do you apply gender

to the ineffable?

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9. well, almost all 'christians' i know refer to him in the masculine tense.

so i thought it'd be nice to contrast that to DU.

[miss_kitty]

11. "...almost all 'christians' i know refer to him in the masculine tense."

As do you, apparently :)

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14. i refer to her however i please.

:hippie:

[JVS]

15. masculine isn't a tense it is a gender

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. God is everything

so is male, female, neither, believer, non believer.

[Droopy]

13. I'd like to think that if there is a God that that is the case

Imagine how cool the world would be if everybody thought of each other as a part of God.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

18. That is a valid spiritual practice

"Namaste" (from the Hindu tradition) means "I salute the Divinity within you".

One interpetation of "La illaha il Allah" is "There is nothing save God".

[alvis]

12. Which god?

So many to choose from...

[VOX]

16. The "which than which there is no whicher" would be male **and** female...

And yet at the same time, it would be transcendent of those definitions.

Now, pass that bong back to me. :)

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. Though the Bible does refer to Him as the God the Father....

...which implies a male gender, there is also the creation account in Genesis which says God created male AND female in His image. Which would suggest there is a female side to that image.

Does it matter to me personally what God's gender is? NO. It's almost as ridiculous as worrying about what race He is.

[FreedomFry]

19. I like John Lennon's take on God best.

God is a concept.

[China_cat]

20. God is a job title.