Waiting on him
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From the mouths of babes.Yes,.. in a stable on Christmas Day and Mary and Joseph named Him Jesus.
Is God Male?
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Matthew 1:23
‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’).
You are treading on very precarious steps, DW, you are playing with fire. These alleged epiphanies, dreams and visions that you claim that you are having, do not sound Biblical at all, they sound heretical, and thus....
Gender is determined by genitalia and reproductive organs. Since God neither urinates nor propagates, he has neither a penis nor vagina, uterus nor fallopian tubes, therefore he cannot be reduced to a gender, OBVIOUSLY!
God transcends all flesh and the material world, He is Spirit, non corporeal. He is neither male, nor female, OBVIOUSLY!
Language has its limitation in communication, although we do have genderless pronouns, it wouldn't be reverent or endearing to call God 'it', or 'that'.
Thus we use the word 'Father', as it represents one who both begets and nurtures. And, as He is the creator of all things seen and unseen, and that He is love, the term Father is represents such characteristics most aptly.
God transcends all flesh and the material world, He is Spirit, non corporeal. He is neither male, nor female, OBVIOUSLY!
Language has its limitation in communication, although we do have genderless pronouns, it wouldn't be reverent or endearing to call God 'it', or 'that'.
Thus we use the word 'Father', as it represents one who both begets and nurtures. And, as He is the creator of all things seen and unseen, and that He is love, the term Father is represents such characteristics most aptly.
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Do you believe Jesus is God? Not sure your reasoning in post #45 as Jesus was a man, and God the Father is a male since he is spelled out as a Father and not a Mother, but as far as the vision I had it was accompanied by the Holy Spirit so it is not heretical to me in the slightest.
But I might expect the response you gave as I have had some time to get to know your views. Cheers.
Waiting on him
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Waiting on him
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Well, that's my point, because I have gotten to know you a bit also, and have heard of your other perceived visions, I am convinced that it is not something Holy behind your inspirations.
God is spirit DW. He is not corporeal, he has no biological attributes that determine male or female. His essence transcends the material world, that is, all things quantifiable and finite. God the Father is merely a term of endearment, everyone knows that He does not propagate Himself in the manner that a father, by definition, does (begets offspring).
Thus, you did not see a vision of a mother & father, and it was not accompanied by the Holy Spirit.
WaterSong
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John 4:24
God is a Holy Spirit. It was a sign of the times to use the male pronouns to refer to God.
I know Christians who hearken to the scriptures that pertain to the Hebrew feminine noun for spirit, ruach. And as such use the word, Goddess, instead when referring to God.
[sic]"...For women, the significance is that the ruach Elohim of Genesis 1:2 is a feminine noun accompanied with a feminine-ending verb form, m’rechephet." The Feminine Imagery of God in the Hebrew Bible
Ours is a personal relationship with the almighty source of all that exists. I don't think God/Goddess will offend if one feels led in that relationship to use either label to personally identify with what is so immense that our mere mortal minds cannot fully comprehend.
I did have a communion with God the Father, and he appeared from a vast distance out to somewhere like the center of the universe. And he was a male, with grey like metal complexion and beard and looked older. And taught me to worship Jesus as he spoke in a way as to communicate with every cell of my body, which was not a known communication form I had ever witnessed.
Matthew 16:17 "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."
DNB, where's your witness experience? Can you share one? What makes you qualified to discuss other peoples Holy Spirit experiences?
The Bible makes me qualified to verify other people's alleged Holy Spirit experiences.
God does not have a beard, DW, God is spirit, He is omnipresent, and does not have a face of steel - God created steel. ...do I sound qualified yet?
God did not communicate with you through every cell of your body, the flesh is at enmity with the spirit. If anything, He would communicate with your spirit, not your flesh. Am i qualified yet?
How old exactly, did God look? Noah lived to be 950 yrs, Adam about the same, Abraham 175, Jacob 147, Moses 110. How old did God look? Do I sound inept to you, or frivolously making accusations?
DW, I don't mean to be critical, but you are playing with fire. God imparts wisdom, not whimsical, feel-good visions. You are channeling other forces than the Holy Spirit.
atpollard
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Jesus is masculine and the Godhead “self-identifies” as masculine, plural (“Let us - masculine plural - make man in our image”).
I have no idea if “spirits” have gender.
I have no idea if “spirits” have gender.
Brakelite
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Certainly not in the manner of humans true, yet
He had a Son who became a man. Thai makes God a Father. Unless you think Him just a metaphorical Father and the Son a metaphorical Son. If that's the case then out salvation is dependant upon us believing a metaphor.
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