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Soniatisom wrote:

The gender of god

What is gender? Seriously, what is gender? It's a function within a language. The most common form is "masculine" and "feminine" and generally males are assigned masculine and females are assigned feminine although a lot of languages assign gender to inanimate objects. In English it is is only seen in the third person pronouns and generally only to persons. (As in the expression "It's a boy" ... shouldn't that be "He's a boy.")

Now we come to the English dirty little secret. "It" is often derogatory. (Which makes that expression "It's a boy" all the more annoying.) It tends to imply non sentience. It tends to imply non life.

So as a result if a sentient being has no "sex" we need to assign one because "it" becomes derogatory. Since you don't want to be derogatory to God you can't say "it." God is spirit (and truth).

If you look at Genesis, God created the world by, literally saying it to being. He didn't give "birth" to the world, so therefore "he" probably makes more sense than "she."

It's sort of looking at the gender of the classic angels of the bible; seriously what is the gender of a winged set of interlocking wheels?