I’m curious as to what gender your creator, if you believe in one, might be and what makes you so sure?

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Farrah Nuff said:
Is god male or female or neither seems like a harmless enough question, to me but I'm not sure that anyone can answer with any degree of certainty. But that the story in your book is the only one, of that I'm certain that it's not.
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Sorry I strayed off topic @Farrah Nuff

I don't have an answer to your question
I've never given it a study as I've pretty much driven myself to seek,
study whether or not there even IS a god.....or God

I do consider Him my heavenly Father, if that helps define my opinion
 

Farrah Nuff said:
That's great that your holy book says that but what makes your holy book any truer than someone else's, of a different belief and every bit as certain as you? Why is there such mystery surrounding most things religious? If a being or deity had the power to make everything imaginable and to make it from nothing at all then why do you suppose such a being or force would choose to keep secret the answers to the many questions people have about how things came to be?

It seems like a few plausible explanations would be easier to produce than a universe without beginning or end, to me it does, anyway. But if it's all just a fabrication, that seems believable enough for me. Is god male or female or neither seems like a harmless enough question, to me but I'm not sure that anyone can answer with any degree of certainty. But that the story in your book is the only one, of that I'm certain that it's not.
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Maybe God is asexual like the angels? I would imagine so, but could be wrong. If God was a woman wouldn't she have created Eve before Adam since humans were created in the image of God so we are told. Just thinking out loud. :unsure: The gender thing doesn't phase me. It's just a distraction from more important issues.
 

Early in my life, after giving up trying to believe in the Bible god, I still clung to the idea of a god for many years. I never considered gender to be a part of such an entity. Never even thought about it, but it had no gender, and was nothing resembling a human, and was without any corporeal form at all. Of course, while the actual existence of such a deity was even more unassailable than the Bible god, there was still no evidence that such a thing existed. After many years I came to realize that I had no belief that any such being existed, although I thought I was pretty good at imagining one.
 
I once met a group of fanatic femnists and attended one (but only one) of their religious services. They had changed the pronoun referring to God to "she," "her," etc. in all the prayers and Biblical passages they read. I thought it was totally ridiculous. Not because God is male; male and female are descriptions of animals on earth. If there was a Creator who made the whole universe, considering the size and complexity of the universe, why would that Creator have a human-type gender? Not even all the humans can stick to the gender in which they were born, apparently!

It's a throwback to very limited, superstitious, ancient thinking. People were much simpler in the Biblical days, and looking for simpler solutions.
 
Gary O' said:
Fulfilled Prophesy
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Sorry but I have no interest in or knowledge of that. I'm only interested in my original gender question and I don't know how this statement adds anything to that. But thanks for your interest. Maybe I shouldn't have asked anything more about your book. I withdraw my previous question now though and ask that we contain this discussion to matters of gender or nongender.
 
Sunny said:
It's a throwback to very limited, superstitious, ancient thinking. People were much simpler in the Biblical days, and looking for simpler solutions.
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I think similarly. Sometimes when people don't have answers for things, they make up answers to silence the unanswerable questions. Things from our modern lives would seem miraculous and unexplainable to people from that era, I'd think.

Can you imagine how godlike it would seem to someone from that period in time to see an ATM in action? Religious beliefs are complicated and I just don't understand why they necessarily are so. It seems that answers were made up to silence us questioners. So many other complicated phenomena we can explain and understand but what is a god or gods gender or lack thereof is so unknown. It makes rocket science seem simple in comparison.
 
Warrigal said:
You might have more luck stuffing the Sun into a shoe box than you have chance of keeping posters from deviating from your original post. We each have our own perspectives and interpretations of the OP.
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It's okay, everyone seems respectful, at least. I only asked because I'm sure that I don't know. And since I'm sure that I don't know I wanted to know where the certainty of others came from. I still don't know and I don't believe that my question has been answered.

One day, maybe far or maybe sooner but in the future I think that much of what we don't have answers fir today will by then, become answered. I don't state that as fact, it's just an opinion I hold. But I also am of the opinion that by the time my question is answered that there will be new and as of yet, unthought of questions to be answered. But again, that's not the knowledge I was looking for, thank you for your curious analogy.
 
Gary O' said:
John chapter 1, specifically verses 1-3 and 14 describe Jesus as "the Word". It also says that this "Word" became flesh and dwelt among us. It was this Word that made all things, and there is nothing that He didn't make. This would include the angels.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 1:14
'And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.......'
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Explain this
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

What was the word ? Was the word male or female? How did the word convert to be a sentient life form capable of living 13 billion years?
Gary O' said:
As far as Jesus' beginning;

He is the only begotten Son

The well known John3:16

'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'
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A good promise. Excuse me but there are bible stories of wrath & murder by a vengeful "God". Not my kind of love.
 
Sigh. The universe is unknowingly vast. What may or may not exist in that vastness is unknowable, as is the true story of our origin. Religion was instrumental in the the development of humanity and those of us who mock it might want to keep that in mind, and at least show a little respect. Fair enough, Farrah Nuff?
 
I'm not a believer in a particular God nor in a particular religion, but I believe there is a greater force out there that guides our lives. Perhaps it is our own choices and morality. I've never given this force a particular gender. It is amorphous for me. I do respect those who follow particular religions because so many need something to believe in to help them through life.
 
ElCastor said:
Sigh. The universe is unknowingly vast. What may or may not exist in that vastness is unknowable, as is the true story of our origin. Religion was instrumental in the the development of humanity and those of us who mock it might want to keep that in mind, and at least show a little respect. Fair enough, Farrah Nuff?
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Thanks for sharing your opinion but I'm curious as to how you know
that anything is unknowable? But what my intention is or was is not
known to you or to anyone other than me. I don't know how you feel
that you answered my original question though. Not by far. Sigh.
 
Farrah Nuff said:
Thanks for sharing your opinion but I'm curious as to how you know
that anything is unknowable? But what my intention is or was is not
known to you or to anyone other than me. I don't know how you feel
that you answered my original question though. Not by far. Sigh.
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The universe is vast beyond our understanding. If you or anyone knows what exists in galaxies 10 billion light years from earth, please share. I am an agnostic. For me personally the absolute knowledge of the existence of a God is unknowable. However I would never be so arogant as to try to dissuade a believer. BTW, that picture you posted is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. Is that pic a portrait of you or your personality?
 
Farrah Nuff said:
It's okay, everyone seems respectful, at least. I only asked because I'm sure that I don't know. And since I'm sure that I don't know I wanted to know where the certainty of others came from. I still don't know and I don't believe that my question has been answered.
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The answer is that many people do not know the difference between what they believe and what they know. For you what you actually know requires a higher standard of verification than just believing.
 
ElCastor said:
The universe is vast beyond our understanding. If you or anyone knows what exists in galaxies 10 billion light years from earth, please share. I am an agnostic. For me personally the absolute knowledge of the existence of a God is unknowable. However I would never be so arogant as to try to dissuade a believer. BTW, that picture you posted is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. Is that pic a portrait of you or your personality?
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To quote you -

“Unfortunately you are beginning to annoy me. Please reserve your comments for someone else, now and in the future.”
 
My dear @Farrah Nuff ... I'm going to jump in here and ask if it truly matters. Does it matter as long as each individual with any belief, any faith, uses THEIR perception of a creator to help get through some of the hellish days they may face?

I know what my perception of my God is... it doesn't matter to me if yours is different if he/she is helping you get through life. Bottom line is that if I sit here and type out my own perception of what God is to me, I'm going to get some people mocking it, some people questioning it thinking real hard to come up with what they think is a clever way to "entrap" me into saying something they can jump on, and some people saying "good answer, good answer" while jumping up and down clapping... I don't wish to get sucked into THAT mire.
 

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