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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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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:40:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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> OK, so it's a very long-established convention to use He and nothing else.
> Got it!
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 might arise would be whether a given deity was heterosexual
or homosexual. Even though God is a He, there is no She...so God must be
neither heterosexual nor homosexual...at least that's how it seems to me.
--Todd
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