Is Jehovah Male Or Female, Manly of Womanly

by frankiespeakin 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Cold Steel
    Cold Steel

    GOD is not human, and it is stupid of you to even suggest that GOD is like us........ridiculous

    Why is man made in God's image? Jesus was, according to scripture, the "express image" of the Father and he was in the image of a man. He also was resurrected with a fully physical body of flesh and bone. Why would the Father be a spirit and the Son be a physical entity? Jesus did everything he possibly could to prove to the apostles that he was an actual physical being. He was a spirit only between the time he died and was resurrected.

    For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

    So Jesus died, became alive in the spirit, and went to preach to the spirits in prison. Origen, an early Christian father, stated:

    After death, I think the saints go to Paradise, a place of teaching, a school of the spirits in which everything they saw on earth will be made clear to them. Those who were pure in heart will progress more rapidly, reaching the kingdom of heaven by definite steps or degrees.

    Thus, Jesus did, in fact, go to Paradise as a spirit, with the spirit of the transgressor. After three days he was resurrected and his body was gone from the tomb. Why? Because his spirit was reunited with it. So he was a physical being with a spirit, and he was in the "express image" of the Father. Man was made in the image and likeness of God, and when Seth was born to Adam, that son was in the "image and likeness" of Adam. The question then becomes, why does God have a body that looks like ours? And vice versa. We're also called the "children of God" or the "children of light." Paul writes of Jesus:

    Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

    It's one of those things that aren't so easy to explain. Why does God need a head, arms, legs, feet, eyes, ears, nose, mouth? Does He really sit on a throne? Why does His body resemble that of a terrestrial being?

    Why does He appear human?

  • jws
    jws

    Yahweh is a "son" of El along with his other siblings like Baal. And he had a wife, Asherah which leans towards being male in those days as well.

  • prologos
    prologos

    if we forget about the well defined "Jehovah" story, but use an amalgam of pseudoscience and the deist creator concept, the creator must be a hobbyist, usually male and aged, that has automatically set up even our corner of the possible multiverse with billions of habitable worlds, and laws that allow life to emerge and evolve, but has a strong female resemblance, because if he is eternal, extending even into the indefinite future, in all direction, and the Universe started not bigger than an all solid proton,

    He had, and still has the all of it, and us, developing within him,.

  • blondie
    blondie

    only male has authority in the bible world

    only the aged have wisdom in the bible world

    but heavenly spirits have no genitals flesh/blood bodies

    but the bible says that god has feminine qualities in that he treats them tenderly as a mother does

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown

    Similar to what Blondie said. Both. I think if there is a "God" this being is both male and female in perfect balance.

  • Sanchy
    Sanchy

    Per the words of George Carlin:

    “He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown

    I love George Carlin, but I think women can fuck things up just aswell as a man can. Equal opportunities and all. lol.

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