Is God a dood or a chick?

I want to know what you think...

even if you don't believe in him.

What is God's gender?

You mean "Dude" right....?

Many say God is a dude, many cultures still believe in goddesses, like Kali, Durga, Parvati...Although they're all the same being Shakti....

In my religion, Allah or God describes himself as "He"...Yet, the question to his gender is a conundrum...Attributes of gender are meanings that are dependent on a specific relationship to something else, specifically of a sexual nature. This is what gender literally means.

There is no meaning to being male in the absence of something female and vice versa.

Therefore, Allah or God has no gender, seeing as he is different from us completely, and created both sexes.

Which makes him in essence genderless.

Haha sorry for the spelling Noir.

there's a song I like that spells dude "dood" in its Title

the song's called "html rulez dood" its by the Devil Wears Prada

...I personally think God's genderless too, but if God had a sex I think God would be a guy. for one reason though, in the Bible, Christ referred to him as his Father or the father, and Jesus is his son so it seems like God would be a guy.

Well the gospels (Matt Mark Luke and John) were all written by the people closest to Christ. all they did was write down the experiences they had with Jesus. God didn't tell them what words to write.

He's an It.

Hmmm always used to think god as a cloud and not as a person as such, though it would seem when the bible was first writen God is a man, mainly because of satus, the man was more important. The reason i used to think God as a cloud is because its said he is everywhere and anywhere at the same time looking down on us and protecting us, i always saw clouds in the sky i was one of thoughs kids who sat for hours making shapes out of clouds and i used to think he was playing around with me seeing if i could name the shapes he was making..... i was a troubled child...

Of corse now i do not believe in God persay, but a much more deeper meaning to life then some thing some one has told me to believe

I don't believe in god, but I'd say they're not either gender.

Hey Fang, god is not human. So I can call it It.

He is niether and both
god is not human

Woops my post was directed to Rocky.

I guess it all depends on the culture and the religion you're in. I've always thought he was a man.

.:CiNdY:.

If you love God...then why should it matter?
You'll know when you meet him.
And if you don't know...don't ask him because I think he'll find it rude.

Like this one time...there was this person on my bus. And no one could tell if it was a guy or a girl. Couldn't tell if he/she had boobs...the hair was long but there were masculine features. So my friend Jessica walked up to "it" and asked what "it" was.
Apparently it was a girl.
And she got VERY offended that no one on earth could tell...

Point is--God is God. Doesn't need to be defined, although the universally accepted pronouns associated with God are "he" or "him".

OR
if God were to have a human form
maybe he's a hermaphrodite
or a transvestite without all the surgeries. He can just change back and forth between genders!
How sweet would that be?!

I hope God doesn't punish me for calling him/her a hermaphrodite.

LMAO thanks Kristen!
you're a smart cookie for calling me a smart tatertot. =]

If real...God is a hypocritical hermaphroditic egocentric selfish being. Don't like what I say? It's my opinion.

Wow.
you'd go as far as saying that the God that "supposedly" saved your life (all of our lives) is hypocritical?

but whatever, you believe what you want to believe.
just stick to my question from now on.
i don't want to start anything.

^that goes for anyone else that wants to take that route.

Http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb227/lucky_sparrow/?action=view&current=God_South_Park.gif
this is what God should look like.
(haha South Park is so silly)

Speaking of God...may I just ask something..?

In the bible does it not say that God is an angry God...our God is a jealous god...

but then it goes on to say that our god is forgiving...?

How can you be angry and forgiving at the same time? doesn't that take a LOT of energy...and isn't that slightly contradicting?? Is he angry at us all or has he forgiven us all yet?
And why are well born with the original sin of Adam and Eve if he already forgave them and us?
Why do we need to keep asking for forgiveness?
Can't we just be pre-forgiven? Wouldn't that make more sense?

Idk but I just don't understand...I'm just not very religious I guess....not intending to offend anyone, of course.

I asked the same question when I was a youngin'

God's jealousy is different from human jealousy.
it's hard to explain.

it's like he wants you to love him because you want to love him.
not because you feel obligated

....its really weird.

...oh and to answer your other questions

God is nowhere near angry with us.
its that simple.

we aren't born sinners, we're just born into a sinful world.
sooo i guess that whole pre-forgiveness thing you mentioned makes sense in a way.

we constantly ask for forgiveness because we constantly mess up.

Whose to say that we messed up though? Can't it just be a lesson learned? What's wrong with experimental learning?

he's not down here to tell us what's right and wrong...

And JESUS didn't write the bible...
his people did.
And it wasn't really passed around until after he died right?
What if the bible ISN'T accurate? Religious people would be basing their belief by a book that may or may not have been historically accurate...

That scares me...and I guess that's partially why I'm not RELIGIOUS. I'm spiritual. I believe in a higher power, in a god. But I feel uncomfortable with adopting other people's perceptions of how God would want me to live. Because we were created as individuals...no one person like the other. Our lives were meant to take different paths...?
Ugh. I'm confusing myself. It's all over my head.

No one ever said that Jesus wrote the Bible. and if you're referring to one of my earlier comments, all I said is that the people closest to him wrote the gospels, they just wrote down the things he told them when he was alive.

and I almost totally agree with your spiritual but not religious way of life.

"it's not about religion, its about a relationship"
it boils down to this: God wants to have a loving and lasting relationship with you. And that's how you live your life, knowing God. The Bible is just there so you can learn more about him from some of the people who were closest to him.
also I agree with what you said about the bible possibly being inaccurate...we really don't know for sure if anything the Bible says is true or untrue, but we put our beliefs in it anyway, it's called faith. Putting your trust in something that is uncertain.

Your view on forgiveness is intriguing though.
the thing is, we do mess up. How are some of the things we humans do, not messing up? (murder, adultery, theft etc)
the reason we ask for forgiveness is because God is only one who has the power to undo some of the wrong things we have done. Don't see it as asking for forgiveness, see it alike asking for help.

I like to think that God's whatever you want him to be.
(male, female or whatever)

Never knew an edible source of nourishment would have a gender... I'm guessing whoever eats it would have inadvertantly had sex with it...

Guys and Gals... don't eat pasta... it may either impregnate you or make you gay... So watch out?!

To me God is a spirit. The beginning and the end. He is everything and more. The highest of all.

He is both female and male; yet, he is neither for he has taken no phsical form.

I consider him male in a physical form because the bible clearly states that he is our father. Jesus Christ called him father many times while preaching and praying. However; he has the sensitivity and compassion of a female.

He is everything... every emotion we have felt, every tear we have cried, and every breath we have breathed, but yet he is more than we could imagine or even begin to describe.

Sorry if it make little sense, but that is how I view him. Simple; yet, complex.

~~Sher

This is the thing...Though...

Why do we humanize someone who created us by my understanding out of clay...

I find that contradicting. I mean if God is omnipotent, why would he have a need for gender. I think that monothestic faiths, do endorse the patriarchial stereotypes.

But again, that is from one perspective.

If we base our beliefs on the Bible,it says God is a spirit,which means he has no physical form but it many times refers to him as father which at that time implied the head of the family unit, the one you turned to for guidance and decision making.Maybe humans need a form of reference they can relate to.

How bout we say hes an 'it' or a 'heshe' either way works for me..

Lol...I don't think he's an it or a he/she, because he's different from everyone us.

Its like plants trying to say (If they could speak...Gasp!) that we're like them....

Don't think it works that way...Although some eco-hippies, think they're descended from trees...Lol.

That's not how you spell dude
God has no gender

Thats the second time thats happened.
haha

I know it's "dude" but there's a song that spells it "dood"
(read earlier post)

Haha good one.
that was pretty funny actually.

I say dude