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| Why He And Not She?
Posted: 9/15/2005 2:22:15 PM | Now if we are going to quote Bible verses. Lets go to the beginning.
Genesis 1 not 2 and see what it says about God and the creation of Adam.
NKJ version
1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Looking at that, it says he created man in his own image, male and female.
Either God is both and so was adam. Or he created both male and female and we have a god and a goddess. | |
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| Why He And Not She?
Posted: 9/15/2005 2:32:42 PM |
God is always referred to as "HE"...
Why not "SHE"?
Is it that hard to open yourselves to even the possibility that God might be a Woman?
Does the idea bother you? Or does it just not matter whether "HE" or "SHE."
US president is always referred to as "HE"...
Why not "SHE"?
Is it that hard to open yourselves to even the possibility that a president might be a Woman?
Does the idea bother you? Or does it just not matter that neither a black nor a woman has ever become a US president? | |
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| Why He And Not She?
Posted: 9/15/2005 4:54:30 PM | | I'd hardly equate colour or gender of a president to God, with regard to leader of a country; we had a female Prime Minister that most would now prefer to forget! | |
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| Why He And Not She?
Posted: 9/15/2005 5:19:52 PM | defenestrate.
Thinking you need to take that question to the current events threads. It really has nothing to do with the question asked here. | |
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| Why He And Not She?
Posted: 9/15/2005 5:41:17 PM | Sorry, it's not from Cecil, but Wikipedia.....to sort of help cut through the confusion created by our need to engage in prosopopoeia in order to believe in God.
'Anthropomorphism', also referred to as personification or prosopopoeia, is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects or natural phenomena such as animals, forces of nature, or believing in an unseen author of things, amongst many other possibilities. "Anthropomorphism" comes from two Greek words, a????p??, anthropos, meaning human, and ยต??f?, morphe, meaning shape or form.
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In religion and myths
Various mythologies are almost entirely concerned with anthropomorphic gods in human forms and possessing human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love. The Greek gods such as Zeus and Apollo often were depicted in anthropomorphic forms.
Current religious belief generally holds that it is improper to describe the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as human. However, it is extremely difficult for the average person to picture or discuss God without an anthropomorphic framework. It is also noteworthy that the Judaeo-Christian Creation story (Book of Genesis) holds that God created man "in His image", implying if not an anthropomorphic God, then at least a deimorphic Man. Traditional Christianity also maintains that Jesus became human while remaining fully God, uniting the divine and human natures in his person, and retaining his resurrected body when he ascended to Heaven. However, according to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon), God the Father has a glorified, perfected physical body in which His spirit dwells. In contrast to the human frailties (hate, lying, etc.) attributed to, for example, Greek gods, monotheist Gods are generally considered omnibenevolent.
The ten avatars of the Hindu supreme God Vishnu possessed human forms and qualities and retained the divine, although divinity varied in degrees; see avatar for more detail. Vishnu, in Vaishnavism, a monotheistic faith, unlike the gods of Greco-Roman religion, is omniscient and omnibenevolent; see theological attributes on Vishnu and in article on God.
Anthropomorphism is also important in many traditions of magic, where it is thought that entities can be affected by appealing to, bartering with or threatening their spirits.
Anthropomorphism in the form of personification consists of creating imaginary persons who are the embodiment of an abstraction such as Death, Lust, or War (see Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for notable examples). | |
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