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Is God a He, a She, or an It? (was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:33:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> To answer your first question, Christians refer to God as "He" and "Father"
> because that's how Jesus referred to Him. Since we believe that Jesus is the
> Son of God, then it is natural to expect Him to know the correct way to
> address God. I have never thought of referring to God as "it", nor whether it
> would be insulting or not, but the fact is that Jesus refers to God as "He",
> so we do to.
OK, so it's a very long-established convention to use He and nothing else.
Got it!
> Recent referral to God as "She" (I got the capital "S" this time ;-) is
> nothing more than political correctness gone wrong. I stand by my statement
> that nowhere in the Bible does it refer to God as "She", and I'll address
> Dan's statement about this following his post.
Ya, this reminds me of back in the late 80's when it was popular among
certain groups not to acknowledge that the word "woman" (or "women") contained
the sub-word "man" (or "men"). Thus someone came up with the word "womyn" to
dissociate women from men (or for some purpose along those lines).
Kinda makes me wonder what would happen if people started calling generic
bricks "brycks." :-)
> For your second question, I think it would be equally insulting, as Jesus
> has already told us how we should address God. To do otherwise is to say "I
> think Jesus was wrong", which for a Christian is fundamentally against
> Christianity.
OK, makes sense now, thanks!
--Todd
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 | | Re: Is God a He, a She, or an It? (was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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| (...) Er, I didn't mean that ("He and nothing else") literally -- I meant to say "male gender equivalent," which would cover He, His, Him, Father, etc... It's a good thing, too -- because if deities could have other genders, then one question which (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) To answer your first question, Christians refer to God as "He" and "Father" because that's how Jesus referred to Him. Since we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then it is natural to expect Him to know the correct way to address God. I (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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