Sunday, May 31, 2020

Gods gender- we were made in his image

Is God male or without gender?
  • God Has No Gender. As a rough guess (based on no research), 90 percent of all monotheists believe that God is exclusively male. Even though most Christian and Jewish sects grudgingly admit that God created women in “his” image (Genesis 1:27 and 5:1-2), this has translated to fair treatment of women only extremely rarely.

    Genesis 1:27
    So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.


    Genesis 5:1-2
    This is the written account of Adam's family line.
    When God created mankind, he made in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. and he named them "Mankind" when they were created. (In Hebrew, this mean "man".. which is human, so humankind.)


    Why does God need a gender?


    Because we, as humans, have a hard time wrapping our minds around and believing in something we can't see. We are a visual species. So when we are presented with the idea of something that invisible but real, our minds can't comprehend it. Take, for instance, the wind. We cannot see the wind itself, but we can see the effects of; things that are moving (plants, clouds, material, etc), the tangible movement of air across our skin that creates physical reaction.
    So we create an image from the facts that we can physically gather in order to have "something" that our eyes can see, so we can believe it's real. If there is no gender, we cannot create a physical image that would interpret our mental processes. Therefore, we search for an answer to the question of identity. 

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