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Post Is God male? mytimewillcome
The COG pastors Facebook page is blowing up with this issue.

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Post Cojak
Let's see? He had a Son, is there a Mrs God?
Wait, I had the answer on the tip of my tongue, but I lost it.

The Scripture does use the masculine description. But then in the Greek and Hebrew there may not be a word for GOD, outside GOD, and the translators just scratched their heads and used HE!

It is a useless discussion, but............... Humans do a lot of that. Shocked

I went to look at the page, but it is a closed group.?????
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Jesus said that when folk pray they should say, "Our Father."

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Old Time Country Preacher wrote:
Jesus said that when folk pray they should say, "Our Father."

Now, lessen he is transgender he is male.


To use the logic of some of the "edumacated" on there, they seem to believe that by believing God as Father means he has genitals. Shocked

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mytimewillcome wrote:
Old Time Country Preacher wrote:
Jesus said that when folk pray they should say, "Our Father."

Now, lessen he is transgender he is male.


To use the logic of some of the "edumacated" on there, they seem to believe that by believing God as Father means he has genitals. :shock:

Those types don't frequent Shoney's I'm afraid.


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Post bonnie knox
Maybe He isn't transgender, but transcends gender?

Old Time Country Preacher wrote:
Jesus said that when folk pray they should say, "Our Father."

Now, lessen he is transgender he is male.
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Post Re: Is God male? bonnie knox
mytimewillcome wrote:
The COG pastors Facebook page is blowing up with this issue.


I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
If you could quote some of the choice morsels here, I'm sure it would be highly entertaining.		 [Insert Acts Pun Here]
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Post Re: Is God male? Old Time Country Preacher
bonnie knox wrote:
mytimewillcome wrote:
The COG pastors Facebook page is blowing up with this issue.


I'd love to be a fly on the wall.
If you could quote some of the choice morsels here, I'm sure it would be highly entertaining.


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Post bonnie knox
Ole Timer, I really just can't see myself asking Chief Charging Battery if God is male.
He tries to avoid "foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they do gender strifes."
He might just give me a look and wonder why I'm asking such a strange question. I'm sure he would see that as a foolish question.		 [Insert Acts Pun Here]
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they seem to believe that by believing God as Father means he has genitals


So, when that is pointed out, do they insist that He does, or do they step back and consider what it actually means for God to be gendered?

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Post Eddie Robbins
God is spirit. Acts-pert Poster
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Eddie Robbins wrote:
God is spirit.


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Post In anthropomorphic terms God maqqebet
is depicted in masculine terms, and while it has been pointed out, it is more favorable to address Yahweh as He or Him rather than it.

It is true the Scriptures do portray Yahweh in Fatherly terms but some people can't seem to handle literature devices. What would we do if all masculine and feminine were removed from grammar. How would we describe active and receptive?

The attempt to neutralize the Scriptures by debating this issue serves only to distract from the message and a subtle attempt to chip away at the foundation of the veracity of the Word of God.

People will believe what they want and people will make issues where they want to make issues.

Endless debate about such things are not only useless but causes confusion - and the latter is probably the agenda of the more militant detractors.
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What would we do if all masculine and feminine were removed from grammar. How would we describe active and receptive?


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bonnie knox wrote:
Ole Timer, I really just can't see myself asking Chief Charging Battery if God is male.
He tries to avoid "foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they do gender strifes."
He might just give me a look and wonder why I'm asking such a strange question. I'm sure he would see that as a foolish question.


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In anthropomorphic terms God is depicted in masculine terms...


But isn't the Hebrew word for God the Spirit a feminine noun?		 [Insert Acts Pun Here]
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Post Cojak
bonnie knox wrote:
Eddie Robbins wrote:
God is spirit.


Well stated.


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bonnie knox wrote:
Chief Charging Battery


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Post UncleJD
For whatever reason, He chose to reveal Himself as male. That doesn't mean He has XY chromosomes. Golf Cart Mafia Consigliere
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bonnie knox wrote:
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In anthropomorphic terms God is depicted in masculine terms...


But isn't the Hebrew word for God the Spirit a feminine noun?


In the Greek, yes, the word pneuma is in the feminine gender, but God the Father and God the Son are in the masculine gender. That's 2/3 to 1/3. So the feminines are outnumbered and outvoted.		 Acts-pert Poster
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