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05-26-2007, 06:30 PM
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The Bible says that God made man (Adam) in his own image.
Woman was made later, using one of Adam's ribs.
So yeah, God's male.
Well, one interpretation of genesis has Adam created as a hermaphrodite, then the female side removed later to create Eve.

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1. Because he's referred to as he.
Hebrew doesn't have genderless pronouns. The male version is used in any ambiguous situation; e.g. a group of 100 females would use the female 'they' pronoun but a group of 99 females and 1 male or a group of 100 people where you don't know the collective gender would use the male.

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I think, ultimately, God looks like this;
That would be the male-aspect-name I was talking about. The female one is the bottom of the following:
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